I've been posting here for 20 years.

[OAITW r.2.0]

Back in 2001, we were pissed. DU had the platform to make us all aware of the important political stuff happening daily.....back then. It was pretty much still the same stuff we are dealing with now.

Except, I think it's finally starting to sink in with 70% of the voting population that Republicanism is anti-democratic and bad for our health, in all ways. .

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1. Yep, the orange turd is so visible with the crimes...

and corruption it's impossible to deny now. And he's continuing with it to this day and it emboldens the magats to commit crimes and ignore the law.

Jan. 6 and the fake elector crooks are the most brazen examples. None of that would've happened without trump's exhortations.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. It's not just Trump....it's the Party that allowed him to take over the Party in 2016.

No shots fired. 20 years of breeding compromised quislings does that to a Party.

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4. True enough. Was it you in another thread...

who pointed out that when corruption and crime go unpunished, the subsequent crimes get bolder and of more consequence? The poster cited Nixon committing treason by negotiating secretly behind LBJ's and the nation's back with the Vietnamese. And Reagan did the same with the Iranians during the hostage crisis to with the election against Carter.

[usonian]

6. Interesting trio you mentioned.

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7. Thank you.

[Kablooie]

3. I hope so but

After Hillary being a 98% shoe in by all measures I don’t have a lot faith in the press or the zeitgeist anymore.

[BigmanPigman]

5. My dad told me 35 years ago that the GOP was the party of

greedy hypocrites. Dad was right on target. The party should be destroyed or else they will destroy America (what ever is left that they haven't already destroyed). Time has run out.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103482710

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. Back in 1972....when I was of voting age....

I had serious political discussions with my Mom - Dad, never showed his political cards....probably a GE voter.

She was born in 1926. 15 in 1941 (Pearl Harbor). Can you imagine being that age in the USA and wondering WTF was going to happen? When arguing about Nixon, she told me she was an Eisenhower Republican. And it makes total sense.

Ike did not forget the country's sacrifice in WW2....he didn't forget the soldiers that paid the ultimate price or the ones that carried their war results permanently. He had a Republican platform in 1964 that any Democrats today would be proud of.

[Hekate]

10. Congrats on 16,000 posts as OAITW. Wish I could have talked politics for real w my folks...

Mom was born in 1924 and Dad in 1918. I don’t know why politics drew me at an early age, but there was a fascination.

Like your Dad, mine never really showed his political cards. But Mom was different: I believe she was scarred for life just by having Joe McCarthy in the ascendency when she was younger, and she was afraid to be publicly involved. Every single thing she taught me about how other humans should be treated led me to become a Democrat, but when I became politically active, my intensity scared her.

As for Ike, I was just a little kid and I still remember that he was the president who forced integration in the South. He was one of the good ones — actually the only good GOP POTUS I can remember in my lifetime.

[lamp_shade]

9. Congrats on your 60,000th post.

[alphafemale]

11. bush baby jumped to about 90 percent approval rating in one day

And his skill set did not approve.

From less than 40 percent approval.

[ificandream]

12. I remember back in the Vietnam War days how we looked at Nixon and Republicans.

They weren't as anti-American as they are now, but what they did was try to stomp on the younger generation. It didn't work.

Now, Repughs are fucking nuts and a danger to this country. If it wasn't for the mouths at Fox Nudes, things wouldn't be so bad. I hope Roger Ailes is burning in deep hell.