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Many people, including me, not all of us Republicans, have observed that the Dems were much saner before 2010 or so.
by 0xDEAFBEAD 1mo ago
Many people, including me, not all of us Republicans, have observed that the Dems were much saner before 2010 or so.
- otterley 1mo agoWhat happened around 2010 that might have precipitated whatever changes you’re thinking of?
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1mo agoTumblr? Cultural shifts from social media started to gather momentum roughly around that time.
- otterley 1mo 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 1mo agoNone of those events were the focus of the cultural shifts I'm referring to.
- otterley 1mo agoMaybe you should be more explicit about what you think really happened.