Theory:Reagan moved the country to the right. Gingrich to the far right...

[Bucky]

Lewinsky brought the country back to the center and then Bush moved us to the left.

What am I missing?

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Bush moved us to the left? Please explain.

[Bucky]

3. I was reading another thread about how pissed people are at the GOP

Not just Bush, not just the war. People coast to coast, Republicans and Democrats, are hopping mad at the establishment for this idiotic blood-for-oil exchange scheme. Democrats are doubly mad at the mainstream Democratic pols who have been sucking up to the Republican power elite. Bush is their selected poster child of right wing policies--corporate giveaways, corrupt deals, lobbyists with hookers, snooping in on private citizens, ignoring laws at will, torture, stiffing the veterans...

I think people are ready for big change, big change on the order of what happened in the 60s and 70s, possibly on the order of what happened in the Progressive Era when the nature of government radically changed. George Bush made this all possible.

[Kerrytravelers]

5. Thanks for the explination.

[flordehinojos]

2. i am not sure what you are missing...

but your post brings to mind the admission by newt gingrich (it wasn't even an admission, it was something like, look at the great books i keep on the night table by my bedside)that two of the books on his night table were 1)the bible and 2) Mein Kampf ... that second book on his night table alongside the bible raised red flags of fire in my mind, the country didn't seem to care.

[mrcheerful]

4. We are living in the apathy times, theres more of the I can't do nothing

about it types out there that hasn't been seen since the Nixon years. Even Vietnam was looked on favorablely until after the 69 elections. It was americas youth that raised up and made themselves heard. Today's youth are so invovled in the me me me stuff that until they are hit with hardships, everythings fine and dandy so let the old people deal with government.

[The_Warmth]

6. Don't discredit us youth!

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