TX-Beau
FEAR THE LIBERAL DETENTE!
I gave you 4 examples 3 of which occurred in the era of open primaries and after the era of party bosses.
Perhaps it’s the different electorate from then till now, people frowned on divorce in 1964 but not anymore. Or maybe the difference is the candidates themselves both Biden and Hart could have trudged on but chose not to was it a sense of shame which is gone these days or just a belief on their part that they were done.
Clinton opened up this door, his impeachment failed because no one cared about what he did, in another era they would have. Or maybe it’s just a reflection of our take no prisoners politics, I’ll defend those on my side not because I don’t care about their behavior but because of who is attacking them.
Our standards have devolved and perhaps our values as well.
I'm not making any value judgment on which way was better. You can make arguments for either, neither did the old way ad at noon on a Monday, one bled out, while the other took shape. Either way, it wasn't a character that was ever the qualification; one could be a total ass-wipe and venal douche under the old system as well, just so long as one could lie in public.
I also don't think people's natures are fundamentally different from 50 or so years ago. I think that a group of politicians who were losing ground played a long game of gaming the system because they were losing. When they weren't we lived in apartheid America, and that's where they want to return to. How do we get there? Division, hate, race-baiting, misogyny, and homophobia are all being pushed as proper Christian "values," Toad's agenda is not new; they've been on the road there since Nixon.


































