"Before Reagan" is the opening to so many sentences about how things used to be less fucked.

Before Don Regan in particular. youtu.be/QTcL6Xc_eMM?... Reagan was a trained monkey doing tricks for the finance elite. He legalized stock buybacks for them. Regan is clearly proud of the control he has over his pet monkey, and made sure everyone near could hear him give Reagan an order.

Speed It Up

A little background on Don Regan, former Merrill Lynch CEO, White House Chief of Staff and advocate of Reaganomics

They're mostly retired now, but you can still find working nurses who remember the nightmare in healthcare when Reagan shut down all the mental health facilities.