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Joe Bacon ✅11/28/2017 9:03:54 pm PST

re: #12 HappyWarrior

I mean when I was in high school and even college. Yeah our college Republicans were jerks but the Republicans and the right have gone from the Country Club assholes (Assholes but relatively harmless) to Swastika and CSA apologizing assholes. And I get that there’s always been that element in the right but the right has grown worse and more and more reactionary minded.

Happy, I remember the Teen Republicans in High School who swooned all over Nixon in 1972 especially when he won the mock election 2-1 against McGovern. Then I was active in Colllege Young Dems where we had to share the same Student Union room as the College Republicans whose majority supported Ford in 1976. But in the last year of undergrad school (1977), they started moving into the Reagan column. The main engine of the move Right was speared first by the churches, then talk radio, next came Jesus TV, then Fox and that opened the door for every right wing asshole to get on a platform AM radio, “ministries” and then the net.

This is the direct consequence of Pruneface Reagan dismantling the FCC with the repeal of the Equal Time Rule and Fairness Doctrine. All of these came together to become the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine that Louis Powell proposed in his infamous 1970 memorandum.