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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe country will remain divided
and it will remain divided because the Republican politicians and Republican voters want it to be divided.
The will never accept any Democrats in power.
To hope for anything else and chase after their support is a fools errand.
bluestarone
(16,928 posts)DIE of COVID!!
roamer65
(36,745 posts)It started under Raygun.
Dump is symptom of the disease.
Caliman73
(11,736 posts)Nixon, Ailes, and Buchanan wanted to launch GOPTv to put out the conservative view point. Lewis Powell also put out his memorandum in 1971 which laid the blueprint for conservative dominance over the coming decades.
Reagan was an effective pitch man, but by no means was he the architect.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)time again. We simply ignore them proudly and with a smile telling us they will do everything to obstruct while fistbumping as if we are friends.
mitch96
(13,895 posts)that's how the electoral college came about to even out the states effect on government. The low population south feared the north would always out vote them so the powers that be at the time came up with the electorial college idea..YMMV
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