For those unaware, Renegade Cut is a progressive video essay channel concerned with an examination of film and relation of the themes within toward political and social ideas. Renegade Cut has dropped a new video essay (20 minutes). This time the focus is the era of Ronald Reagan and how his harmful policies and political ideals reflected themselves within horror films of the time, particularly the slasher movie genre where promiscuity and drug use among teenagers and young adults was met out with violent retribution:
One portion of this video I really appreciate is the reminder of how the Reagan administration had a significant hand in not just trafficking cocaine but distributing it for the purpose of perpetuating their bigoted war on drugs mission. It's something that I think has faded into history but deserves to be revived anytime a current day conservative, politician or otherwise, tries to reference Reagan as a positive political figure.
One portion of this video I really appreciate is the reminder of how the Reagan administration had a significant hand in not just trafficking cocaine but distributing it for the purpose of perpetuating their bigoted war on drugs mission. It's something that I think has faded into history but deserves to be revived anytime a current day conservative, politician or otherwise, tries to reference Reagan as a positive political figure.
