How politics was 40 years ago...I'm glad someone documented it!

[kaz]

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Tip+O%27+Neal+Congratulates+Reagan+After+Democratic+Loss

Short video of Speaker Tip O'Neil congratulating President Reagan after a big loss.

Wow, can you imagine that nowadays? Each side wants the other side to just drop dead. And I mean really die. Maybe it was the same back then, but they were still cordial.

I was around then

politics were much more civil

but 30 years ago rupert murdoch and roger ailles put rush limbaugh on radio stations all over the country and "I HATE LIBERALS" radio was born!

which quickly expanded with lots of copycat hate mongers saying, all day long, "liberals are to blame! liberals are the enemy! liberals hate YOU! liberals hate our god! liberals are traitors!"

and quickly expanded to "liberals are traitors, its ok to kill traitors"

after radio was infested with right wing hate mongering and blood libel it moved to TV and other media; fox news, breitbart, pjmedia

and all those books and articles by deranged conservative experts;

• Liberals - The Enemy Within : American Elephant
  
  Liberals - The Enemy Within : American Elephant

  American Elephant Apparel & Gifts. Tshirts with a conservative point of view. Direct from the vast right-wing conspiracy manufacturing facility, these 2008 Presidential Election items, Republican merchandise, anti-Hillary shirts, and other right leaning designs will be a big hit with your...

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  Liberals are one of our worst enemies. They slowly work to create bureaucracies that will keep them in power, making the public dependent on a bloated federal government. Liberals would rather talk about problems than face hard facts and fix them.
• The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its ...
  https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-At-Home-Cultural&tag=ff0d01-20...
  The liberal view works for the west, it doesn't necessary work for the rest. If the conservatives are guilty of imposing views on others, the Liberals are equally, if not more forcefully impose their liberalvalues onto the rest of the world that do not want them, via internet, media, entertainments.
  • Cited by: 10
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• The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault ...
  
  

  The Enemy Within

  America's bravest, brashest voice is back as ferocious and cutting as ever."Where has six decades of radical, mad-dog liberalism brought ...

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  The Enemy Within outlines how our schools, faith, military, etc. are being disgraced by liberalism. If you are a patriotic American, this book will have you fuming. The blatant hypocrisy of the left is astounding! Michael has a knack for motivating his audience.

and now we have a fascist murderer in the white house who thinks shooting liberal journalists is funny, who thinks the only good democrat is a dead one......

and that POS has 72 million hate filled nazis who agree with him......

they all vote for nazis and qanon and white supremacists......

and THAT is why our state of politics is so volatile.......

Right. Before Rush, leftists were calling Republicans racists, xenophobes, misogynists and you loved it until you started getting it back

 

[anynameyouwish]

To be honest, the influence of big business has been going on since the getgo. There were scandals aplenty during the 1800s between govt and big biz. I wouldn't call it a takeover, but there is a lot of lobbying and influence-peddling. Ask Hunter Biden. He wasn't the 1st, and won't be the last.

But there were still checks and balances at least. . After the Vietnam War and the Nixon - Carter years, look at how the military industrial complex and the CIA - national security establishment, police state grew ( removing Antitrust laws, allowing vulture capitalism, NAFTA, -30 million manufacturing jobs gone) under Reagan/Poppy and Slick Willy and Dubya....9/11, crash of 08--the growing revolving door between Wall Street and DC, Obama's 'war on whistleblowers', Soros , China $,BLM and antifa- it's all tied together. Dominion election official fraud.... We're pushing $30 TRILLION in debt by 2022, no matter who is president. I could ramble on but it's no use for 8 people to hear.

But Trump is their antichrist in a sense, because he is working for all of us, even the (D) losers.

I think there are still checks and balances as long as we have a split govt where neither sides controls the WH, Senate, and House. Up until now anyway, the filibuster in the Senate was a check on the president and vice versa; witness Trump not getting everything he wanted nor did Obama after 2010, cuz the other party wouldn't agree to anything. Almost anything.

IMHO, there is Big Biz and the wealthy on both sides, each fighting for their agenda and so the only time you get a takeover is when one party rules the roost. And even then there is in-fighting to see who gets a bigger piece of the pie. Used to be the GOP was the party of the rich; not any more. Is it worse nowadays? I dunno, it seems so but maybe it's cuz we hear everything now that we didn't 50 years ago.

oh for the good old days.....

 

[Polishprince]

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Tip+O%27+Neal+Congratulates+Reagan+After+Democratic+Loss

Short video of Speaker Tip O'Neil congratulating President Reagan after a big loss.

Wow, can you imagine that nowadays? Each side wants the other side to just drop dead. And I mean really die. Maybe it was the same back then, but they were still cordial.

If Trump prevails, will Nervous Nancy congratulate her President?

 

[The2ndAmendment]

It's because we're in the short phase ( months) before a hot (shooting) civil war begins.

We're not longer talking years, or even half a year. We're talking between 1 and 12 weeks.

 

[gipper]

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Tip+O%27+Neal+Congratulates+Reagan+After+Democratic+Loss

Short video of Speaker Tip O'Neil congratulating President Reagan after a big loss.

Wow, can you imagine that nowadays? Each side wants the other side to just drop dead. And I mean really die. Maybe it was the same back then, but they were still cordial.

No, that is not how it is today. Stop buying the conventional propaganda.

Both parties want you to think they oppose each other. It’s clearly a masquerade.

What did Nancy and the Ds do to oppose Trump? Nothing. All she did was photo ops. Tearing up his SOTU speech, while approving everything Trump wanted. In fact, the Ds gave him a huge increase in the war budget, while claiming he was crazy and a danger to all mankind.

 

[konradv]

Politics used to be an honorable thing...

...then we got Trump.

 

[my2¢]

I felt the change came with Rush Limbaugh. I'm not blaming Rush or his listeners for the disharmony. The liberals acted as if a popular Republican political pontificator was blasphemous to the system in some way. Every since politics has become some sort of sporting event where folks root for their party over rooting for America.