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Just for a little over a year; I lived in the bliss of ignorance prior to that.
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I was expecting more people to jump in and say that we finally need an organized Independent Party since choosing a new administration seems to be all about party-first once a new president gets to butt heads with his congress. That's where they ALL get in trouble.
Since the Carter era.
Then the basics for others to digest are that Carter was elected because of extreme frustration because of Nixon. Reagan was elected because of extreme frustration because of Carter. Bush41 was elected because he was the incumbent vice president and vowed no new taxes but reneged on that promise as Reagan's economy began to tank. Clinton was elected because "It's the economy, stupid." Bush43 was elected because of Clinton's sexcapades and Gore was ineffective in making his own stand. Obama was elected by the promise to make domestic issues a priority.
So although there was plenty in between that people need to be aware of, the above brief scenario seems to indicate that for a long time now people have been looking for some kind of balance, but instead jump to the person who promises dramatic and immediate "change" when in reality, that is simply not possible. It's always a long slog.
So far, I'm not seeing much of a pattern here. Maybe the question was too generalized. Anyone have a better suggestion?
I'm trying to get at why certain people have such strong emotions about THIS administration and whether or not they have always had such interest and if so, how much knowledge they have of history which formulated their opinions.
So far, I'm not seeing much of a pattern here. Maybe the question was too generalized. Anyone have a better suggestion?
I'm trying to get at why certain people have such strong emotions about THIS administration and whether or not they have always had such interest and if so, how much knowledge they have of history which formulated their opinions.
Why wouldn't people have strong emotions about this administration? You're either part of the Kool-aid drinking crowd that still believe in the 'transparent-hopey-changy' mantras or you see Obama as just another inexperienced and dishonest politician.
I was neutral during my Marine Corps enlistment (1960-64). As soon as I got out there was the election of 64, and I began searching for printed material. Some books and pamphlets:
The Consciences of a Conservative - Barry Goldwater
'68 - A Novel of Presidential Politics - Peter Scaevola
By 66 my friends and our girl friends were huge fans of Firing Line, a political debate forum hosted by Wm F. Buckley
We talked a lot about Ayn Rands novels, but I never took time to read them, thinking them to be a little too histrionic.
The campus of IU was a hotbed of radical political chic. But in 1967, some conservatives at IU, including R Emmett Tyrell, founded The Alternative (It later became The American Spectator moving to D.C. - I subscribed to both T.A. and T.A.S.)
My whole family leaned left, and at the time I read left political material like Margaret Halseys book The corrupted giant, a 1964 book speculating on the corruption of politics taking aim at the right. Scaevolas novel 68 was also left leaning.
The 64 election was the first general election I was of voting age for and I voted in that one and every subsequent general and primary election since.