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In reply to the discussion: Seems this nation has had a meanness to it since Bush catered to extremists to win. [View all]SmileyRose
(4,854 posts)39. 150 years ago this nation wss a lot meaner
very few of the current crop of bullies are willing to murder their own neighbors over political disagreement. Oh they were all bloviating about watering the tree of liberty until Gabby was shot and a little girl died. They sure backed off that shit fast. Hell they've even STFU about nuking the middle east off the face of the planet.
Now we all know the blabberers are a bunch of posers. I'll take the mean words over killing on the mean nation scale.
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madfloridian
Dec 2012
OP
Yep. I was thinking this too..and agree with you. Madflordian hit on some important aspects of
midnight
Dec 2012
#28
are you forgetting all the school shootings of the 1990s? How is this fundamentally different?
cali
Dec 2012
#7
K&R. Things have gotten far more extreme than I expected as well. Intense right wing PR for decades
Overseas
Dec 2012
#17
I didn't know about that memo at all. Trying to read it now. Complex reading.
madfloridian
Dec 2012
#40
I have listened to progressive radio for many years. That helped me through the Bush years.
Overseas
Dec 2012
#41
The worship of profit and privatization above all else is at the root of it all.
reformist2
Dec 2012
#27
Though this has similarities to Columbine, which was pre-2000 (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2012
#32
The Guardian UK had an article about gun control in US on Dec. 8. Interesting.
madfloridian
Dec 2012
#36