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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:01 PM Original message |
How did American politics cross over into insanity? |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think Reagan was the tipping point, too. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Agreed. We have had too much conservative crap over the years. |
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tiptoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-10 05:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
52. The Will of the People is being undermined by systemic GOP election fraud, evidenced 1988-2004. |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Happened nearly 215 years ago..... |
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peace13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
3. * and his 'small dose of religion' into the mix... |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's not just corporate America... |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Yep. Like all diseases, the disease of corporate capitalism keeps growing and spreading. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. Compared to when? |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. You are right to be fearful, and my only disagreement may be with timing. |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
7. voters trying to teach parties lessons with their votes instead of electing with votes? |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. You don't think the years-long ongoing right-wing radicalization is insanity? |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Of course the insanity has been going on for years, if not decades. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I didn't know we had toddlers posting here. -nt |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Many here were only 10 years old when Reagan was elected |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. It happened at the exact moment Bush had a +90% approval rating |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. +1,000 |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Yep. I remember hearing that and thinking, why am I the only one left |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 11:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
48. OMG I remember that |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
12. If you ever get the opportunity watch the documentary "Capitalism, a Love Story" |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
13. i think it really took of when Jerry Farwell and Dobson got into |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
14. We have emboldened our idiots. Thank a Republican. |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
15. The evil seed was the grotesque assasination of JFK and the subsequent |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. I'd put the seed back further, the end of WWII when we were the only nation with a mature |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:19 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I'd put it back still further, to the formation of the Confederacy |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Certainly. In fact we could go back to the original royal land grants that |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. But then it really started in Dickensian England; or somewhat earlier, when debtors |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 10:37 PM Response to Reply #37 |
45. I'm with you as far as the advent of the desert God of death, but as for us and the crap |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-10 02:40 AM Response to Reply #45 |
51. Yes I see what you are saying; just carried it a little far; |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #45 |
53. Sorry; that last post was not clear. |
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Kind of Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
17. I keep catching the last part of PBS's "God in America" |
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AndrewP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. There are many answers to this |
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CanonRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
22. I actually think we tipped in the mid 90's |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
24. President Carter told us to grow the hell up and face reality. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 02:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Yep. Carter had the right message. But he was the wrong messenger. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
26. when did faux news go on the air? |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
27. Limbaugh started and is responsible for a lot if it, other, more insane individuals followed suit. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
29. Simply, our government was infiltrated and taken over by national and international robber barons |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 08:00 PM Response to Reply #29 |
42. You're more optimistic then I am, Swamp Rat. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
31. The Bat Shit Crazy Right From Central Casting… |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
33. Is it coincidence that Lunacy and the prevalence of television have risen as if joined at the hip? |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
34. It predates Reagan, all the way back to the Goldwater defeat. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 07:42 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. I think you've defined it exactly. They built a propaganda machine of |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 11:35 PM Response to Reply #34 |
49. I actually thought "The McGoofy Group" was pretty balanced |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
35. Money |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
36. There was an interesting article in the New Yorker I just read ... |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
38. K&R |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
39. It happen when the SCOTUS threw a coup in 2000 and gave the |
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robdogbucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
41. I nominate the FDR coup attempt |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 08:11 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. I'm not sure I totally agree with you. The KKK had been around for a while. |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
44. Positive feedback loops of GOP crazy |
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young_at_heart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
46. Sarah Palin's voice drives me crazy! |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
47. reagan made idiocy and greed fashionable |
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Kltpzyxm (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
50. it started when |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. I couldn't agree more. But igorance must be brought into play here. |
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tilsammans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
55. But it's so-oooo fashionable to be stupid nowadays |
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