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> because they cling to unpopular positions on cultural issues. The Republican propaganda machine will always be ready to make any cultural issue the dems hold
by vkou 28d ago
> because they cling to unpopular positions on cultural issues.
The Republican propaganda machine will always be ready to make any cultural issue the dems hold 'unpopular'. They turn anything and everything into a culture war, and if nothing exists, they are more than happy to manufacture it.
Observe how they turned their own vaccine into a cultural issue.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 28d agoMany people, including me, not all of us Republicans, have observed that the Dems were much saner before 2010 or so.
- otterley 28d agoWhat happened around 2010 that might have precipitated whatever changes you’re thinking of?
- 0xDEAFBEAD 28d agoTumblr? Cultural shifts from social media started to gather momentum roughly around that time.
- otterley 28d agoThere was a lot for people to be angry about, particularly the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Bush administration got us into as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, combined with the 2008 financial crisis and Wall Street public bailout that culminated in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
- 0xDEAFBEAD 27d agoNone of those events were the focus of the cultural shifts I'm referring to.
- otterley 26d agoMaybe you should be more explicit about what you think really happened.