And you acuse me of "insulting everyone". As always, those famous for preaching tolerance resort to screaming, violence and aggressiveness to protest the other side's supposedly intolerance. Incoherent and typical.
As always, sarcastic.
No, having lived it and been around people who lived it, I disagree with your assessment which is based on zero direct experience.
No, the majority of conservatives have not shifted to the extreme. But a large number of self-described "liberals" have moved very far left and become increasingly authoritarian. One only need look at the pandemic response and related phenomena to see this. Of course there are many other manifestations that are apparent over the past couple of decades.
No, conservatives understand that pollution is bad and needs to be regulated. The problem with the current EPA (and many other Federal agencies) is that they have grown too large, been given too much power, and are no longer accountable to the people.
Us damn republicans destroying the environment....
I doubt if he had much to do with it.
It was largely those same three letter bureaucracies that the left now loves that got us involved in Vietnam and many other foreign misadventures. Eisenhower and Kennedy saw the danger of much of it. Johnson seemed to have embraced it.I doubt if he had much to do with it.
I was drafted and reported to Ft Lewis on Jan 17, 1969, and he was inaugurated on Jan 20, so I can't blame him - but those damned Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson are a different story.
I did win the draft lottery (#34). I had a job offer to work on a research vessel in the south Pacific. Instead my draft board sent me to Ft Dix. I don't feel all that lucky, but I was not the only one suffering that outcome.
I definitely did not want to do that, I told the Army captain that I didn't want to kill anybody, so he told me don't kill anybody at Ft Riley, KS.
I was a peace loving dope smoking hippy.... I still am peace loving, but haven't smoked wacky tobacky for decades (I hear the new stuff is crazy strongYou never know, if uncle Sam hadnt plucked you out by the bootstraps you could have ended up a peace loving dope smoking hippy
).I am still learning but certainly not traveling as much as I did. I cleared my bucket list for countries to visit a couple decades ago when I visited a friend in Australia for a week.
In case it isn't obvious the media industry profits from keeping us angry and arguing. The politicians love to keep us distracted by petit nonsense. I have met the enemy and it is us (pogo).
Perhaps, but are you saying that democrats haven't moved to the left? John F. Kennedy was a democrat, and for today's standards of what a democrat is, he sounds like an ultra-right conservative compared to the current dems in power.
Good example. Even Bill Clinton's policies on crime, immigration, etc. look conservative compared to the current Democrat platform. 30 years isn't very long ago.
Not sure I would agree with this take; however, if you want to see a Republican who looks like a Pinko Commie ratbastard (outside his warmongering, of course), look no further than Richard M. Nixon.
So, you think John F. Kennedy would hire the luggage thief as the national Nuclear Waste Disposal director, just to make a good impression on a particular group.
This here view, lies a very big problem. Nothing worse than to think your shit doesn’t stink too. Mine sure does! No point to a stink contest.
Nixon was pres while I was a young child. I do remember hearing his resignation speech on the car radio in a massive thunderstorm during a family vacation in Ohio. I've never seen him as a great leader, particularly because he and Kissinger opened the door for the CCP to become what they have and because he expanded the Federal government.
Well, since I don't identify as a conservative or a Republican, you would be wrong again. I'll remind you that until about a decade ago I voted for more Democrats than Republicans (and also a few third party types, even for POTUS). I no longer vote that way because the vast majority of Democrats have lost their way (i.e. mind) and wandered far off into the weeds of authoritarianism, bigger government, and a huge array of positively horrendous policies.
I'm drug free. I might enjoy a beer or a dram of whisky after dinner, but do not get drunk or even buzzed. I'm thinking you might be more of a Terence McKenna fan.
