re: #117 Fozzie Bear

I think part of it is just being 36 years old. I am exactly of the age where I have witnessed the country inexorably moving to the right, without interruption, for pretty much the entirety of my life. I am not old enough to remember the times before Reagan, and I am not young enough to accept this kind of hysteria as ‘normal’, due to a lack of anything to compare it to.

Does that make sense? I think (moderate and liberal) people in my age group are probably the most disheartened of all due to this.

Yeah, I def don’t want to sound like some uphill/bothways/inthe snow type, but I’m not that much older than you. Seriously, all that stuff I just mentioned happened in the late 80s, and I have also seen a really extreme rightward drift (though imo, it’s nothing new at all, just more of the same old anti-integration bellyaching from the states rights crowd, really.) I’ve also witnessed the beginning and end of DADT, what will be the end of DOMA, and positive lgbt images in the general culture, unheard of in the late 80s. So it’s a mixed bag. Interesting times.