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Watching the 80s on Netflix
Posted on 1/28/17 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 1/28/17 at 11:12 pm
Holy crap watch the Episode on Reagan and it will send chills up your spine. It is funny how history does repeat itself. I remeber Reagan from childhood but the circumstances of the counttry not so much. Ill be damned but it is almost identical to present day.
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Posted on 1/28/17 at 11:16 pm to golfntiger32
1981 was absolutely nothing like 2017. For starters, Reagan had the benefit of fighting an enemy all Americans feared and opposed. He also had the benefit of following a President nearly unanimously despised by both parties.
Donald Trump is following a President revered by democrats and does not have the clear, common enemy to focus on.
Donald Trump is following a President revered by democrats and does not have the clear, common enemy to focus on.
Posted on 1/28/17 at 11:22 pm to Roger Klarvin
If you are keeping up with Dan Rather's melts that keep getting posted on facebook you can see that every republican president is going to have a "clear, common enemy"... the media.
Posted on 1/28/17 at 11:28 pm to Choupique19
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If you are keeping up with Dan Rather's melts that keep getting posted on facebook you can see that every republican president is going to have a "clear, common enemy"... the media.
The media is a more existential threat now than the USSR ever was.
Posted on 1/28/17 at 11:32 pm to Roger Klarvin
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For starters, Reagan had the benefit of fighting an enemy all Americans feared and opposed.
This is very true and doesn't get mentioned enough. The Soviet Union collapsing and the threat of communism vanishing in 1991 (while good for the world in general) was bad for the Republican Party. We've only won the popular vote in one election since then. That's not a coincidence.
If you asked an American what the biggest threat to their way of life was in the 1950s-1980s, they would say communism. If you asked someone today the answer would range from racism to fascism to religious fundamentalism etc.
This post was edited on 1/28/17 at 11:36 pm
Posted on 1/29/17 at 12:01 am to NeverRains
Maybe but all the xgen and earlier would state radical Islamist.. they are our enemy and much like the Cold War, it's a fight against a faceless enemy.. Reagan was a nationalist at heart and so is Trump.. Its up to Trump to decide whether he wants to take a similiar path.. we should never apologize or feel guilty for being Americans.. we aren't imperialist and have continuously shown that we want harmony.. but when balance is lost, we must assert our interests first..
Posted on 1/29/17 at 12:11 am to Roger Klarvin
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a President revered by democrats
So revered that Obama completely decimated his party inside out and cost them over a thousand seats at all levels of government.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 12:12 am to gthog61
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The media is a more existential threat now than the USSR ever was.
My god, here I thought Trump's rants were just those of an unstable person. But there are people out there that believe it?
We're doomed.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 12:17 am to Sigma
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My god, here I thought Trump's rants were just those of an unstable person. But there are people out there that believe it?
We're doomed.
62 million people, 304 electors and 30 states voting for him wasn't enough?
Posted on 1/29/17 at 12:26 am to Sentrius
Good point. I was thinking more about the anti-media raving specifically.
It's really scary. I've lost a lot of respect for certain posters on this site, and people around me irl as well.
It's really scary. I've lost a lot of respect for certain posters on this site, and people around me irl as well.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 4:56 am to Roger Klarvin
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1981 was absolutely nothing like 2017. For starters, Reagan had the benefit of fighting an enemy all Americans feared and opposed. He also had the benefit of following a President nearly unanimously despised by both parties.
ISIS.
And half the country despised the other previous president.
I was talking to my dad about the Reagan Trump comparison the other day and he said it's the most like Reagan he has ever felt.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 5:07 am to Choupique19
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If you are keeping up with Dan Rather's melts that keep getting posted on facebook you can see that every republican president is going to have a "clear, common enemy"... the media.
Lockstep. Lockstep. Lockstep.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 7:32 am to NeverRains
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If you asked an American what the biggest threat to their way of life was in the 1950s-1980s, they would say communism. If you asked someone today the answer would range from racism to fascism to religious fundamentalism etc.
It is still communism. The problem in this country right now is half of the country has embraced it.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 7:41 am to golfntiger32
Wanna see 80's satire become real life? Watch PCU.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 11:23 am to Sentrius
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So revered that Obama completely decimated his party inside out and cost them over a thousand seats at all levels of government.
Regardless, his approval rating among democrats at the end of his term approached 90%.
Posted on 1/29/17 at 11:24 am to GatorReb
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ISIS
48% of Americans don't view ISIS as a threat to the United States, and only 20% believe them to be the biggest threat.
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