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In reply to the discussion: Question for the older generation.... [View all]WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)87. See Post #8 ;-)
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Do you not remember 1968?!? BOBBY WAS ASSASSINATED! And in '72 WALLACE WAS SHOT!
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#5
I don't, unfortunately. You're talking about politics, though, and I think the OP was asking about..
Cooley Hurd
Feb 2013
#11
Hamilton and Burr had a deadly DUEL, fergawdsake. And does no-one recall these Dallas flyers?
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#8
BESIDES this, JFK was warned off Dallas because Adlai AND LADY BIRD were SPAT UPON there.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#86
These are the most polarized and mean-spitited times ever, and I was born in 1942.
dmosh42
Feb 2013
#23
Please re-read my Post #5. I'd like to know how the present is more "dangerous" than 1968.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#89
BULLSHIT: "Plus, I've seen instances of liberals being hateful and mean-spirited, too."
FSogol
Feb 2013
#27
It's Been Ugly, Before. But Now It's Organized And Applied, To A Whole Other Depth.
Paladin
Feb 2013
#29
I don't think it's any worse than it was in the past, the difference is 24 hour news and hate radio.
OregonBlue
Feb 2013
#30
Certainly a significant factor, but the never-ending election cycle effects what
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#39
Sorry, but the decades-long right wing propaganda campaign and media changes are a big part
Overseas
Feb 2013
#32
People who can recall how US politics used to be before, say, 1980 or 1990. N/t.
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#45
Based on the watered down version of US History taught is schools these days....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#75
It would btw, be interesting to know the round number age wise of posters
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#48
"Getting into politics is like stepping in dogshit." From The Motorcycle Diaries.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#49
There have been nasty times--McCarthy Era, for example, and long before the Burr/Hamilton duel...
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
#54
thats what happened when democratic voters tossed LBJ the most liberal president ever, out
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#103
"Underhanded"?! Nixon had a notorious "Enemies List"! He told Haldeman to "get me the names
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#90
My 88 yr old father said never this bad. It has been bad, but not this bad ever.
uppityperson
Feb 2013
#59
Surely he remembers the assassinations and attempts on JFK, RFK, MLK, Wallace, Ford, Reagan?
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#93
Don't call him Shirley. Yes, he does, as do I. The bi-polarization has gotten much more extreme
uppityperson
Feb 2013
#97
In the past we have not been inundated and aware of such political nastiness, thanks to
lumpy
Feb 2013
#64
Ooooo! I love open ended questions with 15 rules about what not to talk about!!!!
lunatica
Feb 2013
#66
umm there was a civil war at some point. i am going to guess things were more divisive then
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2013
#77
There has always been treachery and cut-throat tactics in our political history, however...
world wide wally
Feb 2013
#78
I think it has always been like this but since we have 24/7 blanketed "news" now...
WCGreen
Feb 2013
#82
I strenuously disagree re: "worse than the VietNam divisiveness." That is the ORIGIN of "Reagan
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#95
OK, so it looks like there are more or less two schools of thought in this thread.
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#98