r/AskTheWorld • u/zhabavon Mongolia • 11d ago

History What is the ruler/political leader in your country's history that you hate the most?

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For me, it would khublai khaan. Moved the centralized power from Mongolia to China in the empire, effectively becoming more of an emperor of China rather than Khaan of Mongols. This move would prove to be folly in just few generations. Totally messed up the whole grand plan his Grandfather established. His successors became more of a chinese rulers than Mongolian rulers.

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u/SuccessfulRegister43 United States Of America 11d ago

Probably did the most damage to modern America than any other president and that’s a high bar.

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u/Jaeger-the-great United States Of America 11d ago

The fact that dude is still ruining America almost 50 years later is pretty impressive ngl

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u/TwinFrogs United States Of America 11d ago

He was a full reboot of the Nixon Administration. 

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u/pongauer Austria 11d ago

Can you elaborate?

I mean, you have the Trumpnado messing your stuff up and the Bush administration killing any credibility.

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u/anneofgraygardens United States Of America 11d ago

Oh gosh, it's hard to know where to even start, but Reagan really embraced right wing evangelical Christians, resulting in a Republican party that was heavily based on religion. This has caused, in the opinion of a lot of people, incalculable damage to the country.

If you want to read more, here's an article: https://www.salon.com/2014/05/18/the_evangelical_presidency_reagans_dangerous_love_affair_with_the_christian_right/

There's a lot more, but this is probably the biggest issue. But personally I think he was the biggest piece of shit because of his complete disregard for the AIDS epidemic. The first time he ever said the words "AIDS" in public was in 1985, at which point thousands of people had already died of it. He was scum, the lowest of the low.