Calling Hartmann out on his bullshit, Part 5,000

As many people who follow this blog know, one of my favorite hobbies is destroying Thom Hartmann's myths. He is so obsessively fixated with destroying Ronald Reagan's legacy that his tiny brain often distorts things that he reads to suit his agenda. I believe that Reagan's domestic policy was mediocre, and I defend it rarely. Yet when someone presents fictionalized versions of Reagan's tenure such as Hartmann's fabricated version of how the White House's solar panels WERE RIPPED OFF DURING HIS FIRST FEW DAYS TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT OIL WAS KING (I disproved this bullshit earlier on this blog) I get angry.

Sooo... it's no small surprise that Hartmann is at it again.


Here he begins with condemnation of Reagan and ends with it.
One of the most glaring lies from this conversation is his version of how Reagan DESTROYED HAMILTON'S ECONOMIC SYSTEM: "Congress actually put [Hamilton's plan] into place in 1792, and it stood until Ronald Reagan came along and deconstructing this (sic)..." This sentence stood out to me immediately because this moron is always trying to link Reagan to the downfall of the founders' many varied visions although we know that their visions have undergone many mutations during the last couple of centuries.
To put this in scientific terms, it would be like someone saying, "everything remained the same in the physics' paradigm and was understood from Aristotle's era UNTIL EINSTEIN CAME ALONG AND ROCKED THE WORLD." Bullshit. We all know that Isaac Newton and a host of other physicists altered the way we perceive physics prior to Einstein's era.

So, let's do some research shall we? If you research this subject for a few minutes you will discover that Hamilton's system was called "the American system." It was, in fact, mostly implemented by the Congress of that period. It was then further developed during Lincoln's era:
(special note: British spelling)
"In the US in the 1790s, the brilliant first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, laid out a programme for the industrialisation of the country by means of infant-industry protection and other policies. Hamilton's programme was developed in the next generation by Henry Clay, under the name of 'the American System,' and implemented under Clay's disciple and admirer Abraham Lincoln and his successors during the period between the 1860s and the 1940s, when the US became the planet's leading manufacturing economy behind a high wall of tariffs."

The program was abandoned during- "SURRRPRRRRISE, SURRRRPRRISE!"-- the beginning of World War 2 in favor of John Maynard Keynes' ideas. During the early '40s-- almost 40 years before Reagan's tenure as president-- Hamilton's ideas, (as well as other people who contributed to "the American system") which were heavily modified by that time, were considered obsolete.

I found absolutely nothing in my research that suggested that Reagan singlehandedly (or otherwise) "deconstructed" a Hamiltonian system that had been unmolested for almost 200 years.

...Hartmann, can you be any more idiotic and insane, man?