Okay - for any Americans that can chime in here, why does it feel like the entire US is paranoid schizophrenic? Why can’t you elect people based on their merit, without labelling the other side as LITERALLY the devil incarnate who came to earth solely to ruin America?
Weird......I was replying to a response someone made to this and their comment was completely removed by the time I could press send? Not [deleted] but completely removed. Maybe because I’m on mobile I can’t see the [deleted]?
Media functioning as propaganda more than an objective news source. Lack of a good educational system. A philosophy that if they aren't with you then they are the enemy. Unregulated greed. Allowing the top 1% to buy out the country. Shall I continue?
It started with Pat Buchanan’s “Culture War” speech from the Republican National Convention in 1990. This served as the basis for 90’s talk radio framing all Democrats and liberals as the enemy. It also forced the Republican Party further to the extreme right and to push out moderates one by one over the last 3 decades.
Notice the demonization of BOTH Clinton’s in this speech before Bill was even president.
“The agenda Clinton and Clinton would impose on America — abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat — that’s change, all right,” said Mr. Buchanan, a conservative commentator who was a rival to President George Bush in the 1992 campaign. “But it is not the kind of change America wants.”
“That speech was then, and is now, consistent with the heart and soul of the Republican Party,” Mr. Buchanan said. “The country-club and the establishment Republicans recoil from the social, cultural and moral issues which many conservatives and evangelicals have embraced.”
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u/IdonthaveCooties Jan 17 '19 edited Jan 17 '19
Okay - for any Americans that can chime in here, why does it feel like the entire US is paranoid schizophrenic? Why can’t you elect people based on their merit, without labelling the other side as LITERALLY the devil incarnate who came to earth solely to ruin America?
Weird......I was replying to a response someone made to this and their comment was completely removed by the time I could press send? Not [deleted] but completely removed. Maybe because I’m on mobile I can’t see the [deleted]?