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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]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)40. I didn't know about that memo at all. Trying to read it now. Complex reading.
Thanks for sharing the link. How did I miss that?
I remember in 2004 we could turn on the radio without being hit by rightwing stuff. We got a satellite radio for the home so we could at least get something. Our area offers conservative and religious, and that's about it.
I saw it coming when I was still teaching. I could see it esp. in the last school where I taught. The parents, the older siblings of my kids, the young students themselves....were very revealing.
We need to be fed kind and caring stuff now to cause some of the hate to settle.
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Seems this nation has had a meanness to it since Bush catered to extremists to win. [View all]
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