When and how did you figure out that American Conservatism was a scam?

[love_katz]

133. No later than 1968.

Like a lot of commenters further up the board, my eyes were opened in the 1960's. The campaign of Goldwater made it clear how hateful and mean the Republicans were. The racist hatred expressed during the Civil rights movement clearly exposed the blatant nastiness and hypocrisy of many social conservatives. The assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Vietnam and Watergate, Tricky Dick Nixon, etc., as nauseam. I figured it out a long time ago. I quit watching television in 1980, when Raygun was 'elected'. I knew exactly what would be trickling down on the heads of the majority of us. I never did fall for that garbage. Their hypocrisy and breathtaking cruelty have always seemed glaringly obvious to me. Am really keeping my fingers crossed for Tuesday.