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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Revolution on March 29, 2012, 05:01:31 PM
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Brigid (7,399 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Just when, exactly, did this country turn into a nuthouse?
Last edited Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:43 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
I log on to DU after finishing my math homework and in seconds I'm reading stories about a teenager being shot dead by a vigilante while carrying nothing more menacing than a bag of Skittles and a bottle of iced tea; a college kid getting shot dead by the cops because some idiot called 911 and said there was somebody prowling around with a gun; and an older former Marine with a heart condition being shot dead in his own home when the cops show up and break down his door after he accidentally set off his MedicAlert pendant. What do these stories have in common? Cops (well, one wannabe cop) and the race of the victim. I don't even want to think about what the next jawdropping story will be.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002490831
Initech(31,025 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. I was going to say January 21st 1981 - Raygun's inauguration
They're nothing if not predictable.
However, we've got you by the proverbial/imaginary balls, DUchebags. The real time this country started going nuts was the date of Jimmy Carter's inauguration. One of the worst dates in history, because it really started exposing you roaches to the light reserved for decent, and civilized people.
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So, then--January 20th, 1977?
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Thanks for getting that date out there for me. Yup, we've got 'em beat by a good term at least, and it could go a bit further back.
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The day someone realized they could simply vote themselves the wealth of other people is the day our country went nuts.
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Just when, exactly, did this country turn into a nuthouse?...when DUmmies discovered they could vote themselves freebies from the public coffers.
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I'd say with the birth of the drug-addled flower children or, to go to the root cause, the infiltration of communism into our society in the 60's.
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Progressive Era?
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Brigid needs to read this website, Chicago's Homicide Tracker:
http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/
What does Chicago and other big cities where crime is rampant have in common? regressive politicians?
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Two words:
Great Society
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Two words:
Great Society
Yep. The era of Communist introduction and acceptance.
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BTW, Joseph McCarthy has been vindicated.
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BTW, Joseph McCarthy has been vindicated.
Totally!
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Thanks for getting that date out there for me. Yup, we've got 'em beat by a good term at least, and it could go a bit further back.
I think Woodrow Wilson or at least Franklin Delano would be more appropriate! They started the welfare state!
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People still had balls during Delano's time, Rus.
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I'd go with when Bush beat AlGore. The demokrat party went over the cliff in its hatred and insanity.
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January 22, 1973. Roe v. Wade.