Fuckin' EVERY GODDAMN TIME THEY WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THIS it's about how great things were back when Reagan was in charge. Hey chumps: - Reagan banned stem cell research because it was going to lead to babymurder or some shit. - Reagan ballooned the deficit in an attempt to grind the Soviets into the ground through overspending on bombs and guns. - Reagan created the modern Middle East by funding the Mujahedeen in general and bin Laden in particular. - Reagan destroyed the only union that backed him and effectively annihilated the middle class. But I mean, we could go back further. - Nixon destroyed any hope of universal healthcare with the invention of HMOs and the managed care industry. - Goldwater went all in on segregation and unequal access to education and citizenship for minorities. - Eisenhower/Dulles presided over McCarthyism, armed Saudi Arabia and let the Soviets massacre a nascent Hungarian democracy movement. - Hoover created the Great Depression. And now it's 1929. How far back shall we go? We all know you're just going to sit there clinging to Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln while muttering "democrats supported slavery prior to the Civil War" like it fucking matters.
I was similarly frustrated reading this and really hoped I'd hear from you.. "Well we made some mistakes but I don't want to admit that the fault of them was conservatism in general. So let me tell you how we were always right but now is the time to regret what we did.." Fuck this guy
Yeah. Point at Reagan. One election removed from the supervillian who ushered this in? How the fuck did the public absolve that party so fast? Because we got stupid grandpa running against a real Christian empath? Everytime I see a Reagan park or school or whatever I want to piss on it or throw up in my car I've now rusted my own jimmies I also don't think I said anything important I also may have given Jimmy Carter a lot of credit. But at least he was a good man
I resonate with some of this.... I was never a tried and true "conservative" in the sense that the author was... but I certainly identify with the sentiments: and While I'm not too worried about losing any friends on this go around (I didn't really hang out with many hate mongered trumpites), the widening rift between the parties is worrisome. but the good news is... even the trolls read Newsweek. The only two comments:I want no part of it. So once again, I am an ideological orphan.
This position will be a lonely one; we may lose some friends.
