The arc of political discourse
Steven Hayward gives us a history lesson on how vicious political discourse has long been in this country. Please read the whole thing.
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Steven Hayward gives us a history lesson on how vicious political discourse has long been in this country. Please read the whole thing.
Here’s another — more recent — example of much the same thing, courtesy of Jason Beale:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jabeale/status/1152059436892151808
Certainly looks like the Democrats are unstoppable: not only are they “on the right side of history” but they have let loose with a scintillatingly persuasive political platform:
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/07/22/the-democrats-2020-campaign-theme-is-you-americans-are-terrible-n2550366
And speaking of unstoppable, just imagine the mass appeal of a Warren-Buttigieg ticket:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/07/wapo-confirms-as-lawyer-elizabeth-warren-worked-to-limit-dow-chemicals-liability-to-breast-implant-victims/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/south-bend-cops-warn-of-mass-exodus-as-morale-tanks-over-buttigiegs-handling-of-shooting
America has been a raucous and sometimes violent country when it comes to politics. The level of TDS obsessive craziness and the violence it promotes reminds me of the turbulence of late 60s and early 70s. I expect there will bombings in the run up to the 2020 elections. We have told our daughter and her family in Chicago that we won’t be visiting them in the second half of next year. We tried to convince them to get out of Chicago and find jobs in a better environment, but she and her husband like their jobs and their northside neighborhood. We enjoy their neighborhood when we visit, but are always happy to get home to small town Iowa.
For some nasty rhetoric, consider what Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Henry Wallace said during the 1940 campaign. Nixon wasn’t the first attack dog VP. From page 77 of The New Dealers’ War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War Within World War II:
If you consider “appeasers” to be those who voted against the Draft, Henry Wallace’s claim that “every appeaser is a Republican” was patently false, as about a quarter of the Democrats in the Selective Service vote, voted against it.Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 passed by one vote.
In addition, the Commies were very much anti-war in 1940. Dalton Trumbo and Pete Seeger devoted considerable creative energies in creating anti-war works, only to abandon pacifism when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union on June 22,1941.
While Henry Wallace became an anti-Communist during the Korean War, he had been at best a Commie dupe until then.
As people lose their heads in election insanity fever once again, I get to keep mine.
Not to suggest that Democrats are not whacked out loonies with their heads so far up their asses that it’s coming back out the top….
But this kind of thing goes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back:
Odds are, they’ve retracted the apology, these days….