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That really hurt the Democrats.
But we barely managed to hang on over the years.
This today will absolutely kill the GOP.
electric_blue68
(15,987 posts)I hope, you could be right...
mitch96
(14,176 posts)mobeau69
(11,244 posts)ananda
(29,340 posts)It was a matter of perception.
mobeau69
(11,244 posts)ananda
(29,340 posts)...
JonLP24
(29,332 posts)Based on my reading I thought it was the Chicago police that looked bad rather than the protestors.
ananda
(29,340 posts)Trust me. I remember.
mobeau69
(11,244 posts)Not to the people watching on tv and the report took time to be completed and most people never paid any attention to it when it did. That wouldve required reading.
JHB
(37,194 posts)...and there are many, many more parties interested in doing that than there were in '68.
Republicans will try to disown the rioters and (eventually) Trump, conservative media will blame antifa and cry "false flag," mainstream media will be anxious to get back to their "both sides are to blame" comfort zone.
And people who were trying to tell them that these nuts were dangerous for the last 20 years will be skipped over yet again in favor of people who had an epiphany five minutes ago.
ananda
(29,340 posts)who's going to buy that?
Do those people look like antifa?
LOL
JHB
(37,194 posts)ananda
(29,340 posts)They are lost.
electric_blue68
(15,987 posts)restrained but quite upset in subtle ways
ananda
(29,340 posts)Well said!
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Its going to be impossible to deny what the GOP has done to America. If they pull the Law and Order card just roll the tape.
ananda
(29,340 posts)Lecherlich
MaryMagdaline
(7,070 posts)tinrobot
(11,132 posts)The civil war in the party is just starting.
Kinda delicious
Moostache
(9,985 posts)The Democratic Party turned its back on the protesters and ran away from the label Liberal for a LONG time after '68.
By '80, Carter was swamped because of "Reagan Democrats", remember that?
We ate ourselves on the left and that allowed Reagan to happen with ungodly numbers of support - he fucking won CALIFORNIA and NEW YORK and damn near everything else by huge numbers, all while gutting this nation for the next 40 years!!!!
The GOP last lost with Nixon. Since then, they hold the line - even today with sedition and treason on full display.
ananda
(29,340 posts)It made liberals leery of being liberals.
Not me.
DFW
(55,438 posts)This is what was being shouted on the streets of Chicago in 1968.
It was true then. It is VERY true now.
Yes!
mobeau69
(11,244 posts)ananda
(29,340 posts)??
mobeau69
(11,244 posts)...
mobeau69
(11,244 posts)Chicago was a great album. We use to wear those LPs out!
ananda
(29,340 posts)Anyway, I hear you!