Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 03:10:45 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: MSNBC Host/Guest Worry Campus Protests Could Spark "Ferocious" Backlash, New Reagan Era References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 20:19:35 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 49 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ZmiEvwqOiS8bvXCpgKri1odADFYPH3q79XD8+MgPCs8JCv9hcp/mzBVmlXLGNpqHemkp3JEC/3qpjLn!2EqjmHxGl+fK8hOdJYxSkwdf1Ns5niJok5Er9vNksrZrBAxos+XrVWT320dhMcbyimLzT4JzW8fu!FA8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3288 In article , "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: > >May 5, 2024 at 1:05:47 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > >>The Horny Goat wrote: > >>>Sun, 5 May 2024 04:13:55 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman : > > >>>>>That said, most Democrats would consider 2016-2020 to be a rather > >>>>>darker time than the Reagan era. > > >>>>You're kidding, right? The parties realigned in the election of Reagan. > >>>>Significant parts of the Democratic coalition went over to the > >>>>Republican party to vote for Reagan. Large portions of the labor > >>>>movement no longer voted Democratic, like Teamsters. > > >>>No actually I wasn't - I wasn't talking electorally - I was talking > >>>with respect to society generally and where it was going. > > >>What else would the party its members care about? A large part of the > >>electorate became Republican. That was quite a dark time for the > >>remaining Democrats. > > >>>I was thinking about BLM and George Floyd - not "how many Democrats > >>>can we get elected" but "this country is now more divided any time > >>>since Viet Nam in the LBJ/Nixon era" > > >>Cynically, certain Democratic politicians thought that not making sure > >>that basic law enforcement was being performed versus criminals who took > >>advantage of George Floyd protestors to loot and commit vandalism and > >>arson thought they were playing to their own base of voters and > >>solidifying support. They didn't care about division but what they > >>perceived as personal political advantage to them. > > >>Plenty of other Democrats were horrified at the societal breakdown. > > >Twenty years ago, who would have thought that by 2024 the following > >statements would be politically explosive: > > >"Violent criminals should be arrested and sent to prison." > > >and > > >"Men cannot give birth." > > Didn't you hear yesterday's advice on screening mammograms for trans men > starting at age 40? You just say these things to trigger me, don't you?