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In reply to the discussion: The events that made you realize America is f'ing stupid? [View all]PCIntern
(25,692 posts)25. I think I always sensed it but I had a real Aha! Moment
when a gentleman whom I knew, a veteran of WWII and the Depression, who read the newspapers every day, watched the early cable news on CNN, was pretty aware of comings and goings, started to mouth the RW agenda, first supposedly just putting it out there, and then basically countering any reasonable political thought with the increasingly radical RW alternative, as though it were the literal truth.
He claimed to be a political Independent but he stopped saying that at least to me when I retorted that based upon our dialogue, his definition of Independent was a Republican with no guts to admit it.
If this guy bought into it, then we may be doomed I thought back in 1988.
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I almost replied with "good one" when I caught myself. That wasn't good at all, was it?
Goodheart
Apr 7
#4
I agree. He conned blue collar workers with his pseudo patriotism and race baiting
Martin Eden
Apr 8
#36
Some of those things, though, didn't become apparent until after he was elected.
Goodheart
Apr 8
#10
The takeaway from Waco. Martyring what I considered to be a child rape cult. The 9/11 response. Letting it turn
brewens
Apr 7
#9
1. Brooks Brothers rioters validated by the Supreme Court appointing Bush 2. Bush re-elected
meadowlander
Apr 8
#15
We don't have a monopoly on stupid (I live in Germany), and I could never limit our stupidity to two events:
DFW
Apr 8
#22
It's like other animals. Some species have excellent eyesight or smell or strength but are stupid about other things.
betsuni
Apr 8
#31
I was visiting a friend in Syracuse the night Agnew quit. She had good artistic talents. We made a caricature of Nixon
NBachers
Apr 9
#79
America is simply too divided with no hope of ever truly being the nation is could be.
elocs
Apr 8
#27
A poll which showed a high percentage of Americans thought they were in top 10 percent
JI7
Apr 8
#29
Founding itself as a white supremacist nation. Once Reconstruction was scuttled, it was all over.
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 8
#48
To be clear, I have always voted (Democratic) in Presidential elections since reaching 18 years old.
Niagara
Apr 8
#52
Whichever hag it was who called George W. Bush a "freeeeeeeekin' geeeeeeeeeeeeniuuuuuuus!!!"
Aristus
Apr 8
#60
I was never under any illusion it was not, so I never had to disabuse myself of the agitprop of American exceptionalism
Celerity
Apr 8
#63
Electing a known con artist, grifter and lying cheat who couldn't pay his bills because he had no real wealth
lees1975
Apr 8
#68