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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on May 18, 2022, 07:48:43 AM
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Star Member kentuck (105,170 posts)
Has anyone been watching GASLIT on Starz?
With Sean Penn in the role of John Mitchell and Julie Roberts as his wife, Martha?
Until Donald Trump, this subservience to Nixon was maybe the closest the Republicans have come to a cult of personality, although they worshiped Ronald Reagan.
G Gordon Liddy was nuts. Totally devoted to Nixon, as was MItchell, his AG, and Patrick Gray, the head of the FBI. Like Trump, Nixon demanded loyalty from all those under him.
In the end, some of them went to jail, including Liddy and including John Mitchell, his Attorney General.
There are some parallels to the present times although Watergate paled in comparison to the daring crimes of today's Republicans.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216703606
OMFG will you stop with Nixon and Watergate. Is that all you have???? LET IT GO...
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OMFG will you stop with Nixon and Watergate. Is that all you have???? LET IT GO...
Has anyone been watching DU on the internet?
There is not one post about how well (cough, cough) the dimoocraps are doing. These idiots still have Trump rolling around in their heads, rent free.
They won't ever let that go.
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Like Trump, Nixon demanded loyalty from all those under him.
Leftists demand loyalty from EVERYONE, right down to who you vote for, and what words you use in normal conversation.
Trump, if anything, didn't focus on loyalty hard enough.
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OMFG will you stop with Nixon and Watergate. Is that all you have???? LET IT GO...
Many DU-folk lived through the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and never grew up.
1. IMO, JFK and LBJ were as or more corrupt as Nixon. But JFK was transmogrified into some sort of martyr, and LBJ wasn't exposed contemporaneously, while he was yet alive, and wasn't as notorious as he deserved.
2. IMO, Nixon's four worst actions as POTUS were:
* Postponing the collapse of the USSR by 10-15 years through the sale of American wheat. Farmers, very understandably, appreciated it, but the USSR couldn't feed itself. Unlike farmers, Nixon probably knew enough of Russia's mess to know the sale would prolong the USSR's existence.
* Normalizing Mao, while the bleeping Cultural Revolution was still ongoing.
* Setting up South Vietnam for betrayal by Congressional Dems. I'm no genius, so maybe the Vietnam War, by 1969, was lose-lose-lose-... I simply have worked with immigrants who were boat people or whose father stayed with the men he commanded and wasn't part of his children's lives for many years. I'm not fishing for Cave-Cred, I've just seen a little of the fruit of Nixon's South Vietnam labors.
* Creating the EPA, aka Tyrannocrats with a galaxy-class Messianic Complex.
Have DU onlurkers run screaming out of the Cave yet? :runaway: :-)
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I'd like them to name any President that would not demand loyalty.