2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)and understanding for Republicans:
"But what I mean is... how did we get to this polarizing enmity in our national politics and discourse?
And I'm talking about both within the same party, but particularly between parties.
My old man, a Marine Bomber (B-25) pilot in WWII, was before and after that (plus Korea) a journalist. He wrote for a Chicago paper as a police reporter, then for the San Diego Union, the Copley News Service, Cox... and eventually was part of the California Highway Commission which built our state's freeway system. He knew, at least in the cosmos of California, all sorts of politicians, lobbyists, and movers and shakers. Hell, he'd hold cocktail parties, and I as a young tyke would spend my time stealing the onions out of the martinis of state senators and assemblymen.
Hell, when Reagan was running for re-election for governor of California, he invited the journalists covering the capitol, and their families, to the mansion for a huge BBQ complete with a cowboy on a horse doing rope tricks and such. Me and Skipper, now known as Ron Reagan, were the terrors of the dunk tank that day. And everybody, young old Republican or Democrat had a great time. My dad would not allow me to wear my Jesse Unruh button to the party, but he did get a kick out of the attempt.
My point is, from what I saw in the late sixties and into the seventies, from my youngish viewpoint, was that these guys, and they were almost always guys, seemed to actually get along no matter their party. They may have vociferously disagreed, defended their positions, their donors and their constituents, but they always seemed to like and respect each other at the end of the day.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/?az=archives&j=1874&page=1
So why then does the OP keep spreading polarizing, bigoted enmity among Democrats? What would Dutch and Skipper say about that?
It skeeves me out that a poster who calls for Democrats to like and respect Republicans would stake out such a viciously divisive stance among Democrats and particularly in this way, crafted as it is as an attack on LGBT and African American voters for having a franchise equal to Skipper's playmate.