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What were the democrats like in the 80s/90s?
Posted on 12/6/16 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 12/6/16 at 1:55 pm
Let me preface by saying I'm a millennial, and was born in the early 90s, yet while I don't have much past experience to go off of, I feel this batch of democrats now are absolutely bat shite nuts. I'm curious to those who are older than I, even though there were political and philosophical differences, were democrats this crazy in decades of past or were they respectable?
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Posted on 12/6/16 at 1:57 pm to Yaboylsu63
More informed, but still wrong.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:00 pm to Yaboylsu63
They were really nasty about Reagan, pretty much through his whole presidency. Don't be fooled by any revisionist history you may hear otherwise.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:00 pm to Yaboylsu63
Much, much less insufferable. They used the word "racist" less often than every other sentence. They were more low key and subtle about their intolerance of different world views.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:01 pm to Yaboylsu63
1) not in search of safe spaces
2) not begging for free college
3) not complete pussies
4) not completely insane
I voted for Clinton as a young man.
2) not begging for free college
3) not complete pussies
4) not completely insane
I voted for Clinton as a young man.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:01 pm to Yaboylsu63
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were democrats this crazy in decades of past or were they respectable?
No they weren't crazies like they are today. The ones I knew just thought it was the governments responsibility to take care of the people. They didn't care about gay rights and bathrooms and all the other fringe bull shite that has made its way into politics today.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:02 pm to Yaboylsu63
Back in those days there was a such thing as a conservative Democrat. When I turned 18 I was marched down to the registrar of voters and registered Democrat under the watchful eye of my parents. That was ferriday Louisiana 1981.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:03 pm to goofball
I mean, it's okay to have a difference of opinion, that's what democracy is founded on. But to absolutely berate and attempt to humiliate someone for supporting the right side of the spectrum is mind boggling to me. Again, I'm 23, and not politically versed, but damn.. these people are loons
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:05 pm to Yaboylsu63
AS nasty then as they are today. The difference - the internet.
The cultural shift into political correctness coupled with social media is a pseudo-empowerment to deranged idiots that believe the 1st Amendment is a right, to not only be heard, but to be listened to as well.
The cultural shift into political correctness coupled with social media is a pseudo-empowerment to deranged idiots that believe the 1st Amendment is a right, to not only be heard, but to be listened to as well.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:06 pm to Yaboylsu63
Not quite as fricked up as they are now, but still pretty goddamned fricked up. I remember us worrying about Hubert Humphrey possibly winning in 68. As it was, Nixon while probably the most intelligent person to hold the office, wasn't an ideal POTUS either. He was the lesser of the two evils. Ditto when he ran for re-election against George McGovern. I respect McGovern as a damned good historian, but his politics were just as socialist then as Obama/Hillary was.
Jimmy Carter? Intelligent guy, but fricking idiot in the office. Decent naval engineer, also Georgia Governor. It didn't translate to Washington. fricker should have stuck to farming peanuts. His own people couldn't even control him. Was the worst POTUS in my book until Obama came along.
Jimmy Carter? Intelligent guy, but fricking idiot in the office. Decent naval engineer, also Georgia Governor. It didn't translate to Washington. fricker should have stuck to farming peanuts. His own people couldn't even control him. Was the worst POTUS in my book until Obama came along.
This post was edited on 12/6/16 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:07 pm to Yaboylsu63
Well shite, since all of their current party leaders are mostly over 70 they were the same people in a lot of cases.
Decent ones like Daniel P. Moynihan died
Decent ones like Daniel P. Moynihan died
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:08 pm to Yaboylsu63
Crazy but less crazy and more honest.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:08 pm to Yaboylsu63
The message was the same:
1. Republicans want old people to die in the gutter.
2. Republicans want your children to starve to death.
3. Republicans hate minorities and women.
4. Republicans are for the rich.
The only difference is that Democrat leaders from the 80s were class warfare professionals who weren't particularly ideological socialists. Today's Democrat leaders are left wing radicals from the 60s who are true believers. That's why they have so much trouble hiding it.
1. Republicans want old people to die in the gutter.
2. Republicans want your children to starve to death.
3. Republicans hate minorities and women.
4. Republicans are for the rich.
The only difference is that Democrat leaders from the 80s were class warfare professionals who weren't particularly ideological socialists. Today's Democrat leaders are left wing radicals from the 60s who are true believers. That's why they have so much trouble hiding it.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:10 pm to bencoleman
quote:They were purged, the blue dogs are long gone, this cycle they voted for Trump.
Back in those days there was a such thing as a conservative Democrat
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:12 pm to bencoleman
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conservative Democrat
Those people are now laughed and ridiculed out of the Democratic party.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:14 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Democrats in the 80's and 90's where much more blue collar than they are today. They had an intellectual group and they were not as far left. They did not become as leftist as they are today until the Baby boomer generation took over. They are much more leftist than ever in the 90s. Also, there has been an erosion in their ability to argue their points because they are brainwashed in college.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:14 pm to Yaboylsu63
More conservative. There were a few red dog democrats out there. None anymore.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:14 pm to Yaboylsu63
For every Dem president elected in my lifetime, since '52, I never was too concerned about how they would govern in respect of anything too radical but when this yahoo we got now in the White House uttered those two infamous words - fundamental transformation - it chilled my shite a good bit. Eight years later, he has proven me correct for thinking that.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:16 pm to Yaboylsu63
The biggest difference today is the lack of respect for one another and that comes from both sides. The internet and smart phones has created or brought out the a-hole in almost all of us. It is easy to tell someone to frick off and eat shite that it no longer bothers us to say it to one another.
Posted on 12/6/16 at 2:28 pm to damnedoldtigah
quote:
Nixon while probably the most intelligent person to hold the office, wasn't an ideal POTUS either. He was the lesser of the two evils. Ditto when he ran for re-election against George McGovern. I respect McGovern as a damned good historian, but his politics were just as socialist then as Obama/Hillary was.
Can you imagine if one of Obama's Executive Orders read:
Section 1.?
(a) Prices, rents, wages, and salaries shall be stabilized for a period of 90 days from the date hereof at levels not greater than the highest of those pertaining to a substantial volume of actual transactions by each individual, business, firm or other entity of any kind during the 30-day period ending August 14, [xxxx], for like or similar commodities or services.
Sec. 2.?
(a) ? There is hereby established the Cost of Living Council which shall act as an agency of the United States and which is hereinafter referred to as the Council.
Sec. 3.?
(a) ? Except as otherwise provided herein, there are hereby delegated to the Council all of the powers conferred on the President by the Economic Stabilization Act
Sec. 4.?
(a) ? The Council, in carrying out the provisions of this Order, may (i) prescribe definitions for any terms used herein, (ii) make exceptions or grant exemptions, (iii) issue regulations and orders, and (iv) take such other actions as it determines to be necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Order.
Or how about:
I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the interest of monetary stability and in the best interests of the United States.
...can you fricking imagine?
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