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AZLD4Candidate

(5,639 posts) Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:15 PM Jan 2022

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The year American politics became a race to the bottom: 1826

Unfortunately, this barrel has no bottom.

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The year American politics became a race to the bottom: 1826 (Original Post) AZLD4Candidate Jan 2022 OP

Um, context? brooklynite Jan 2022 #1

That's the year the great unwashed and plain folk rallied behind loser Jackson's whine of voter AZLD4Candidate Jan 2022 #2

Letting more people vote was a bad thing? brooklynite Jan 2022 #3

brooklynite

(94,333 posts)

1. Um, context?

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Original post)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:19 PM

Jan 2022

AZLD4Candidate

(5,639 posts)

2. That's the year the great unwashed and plain folk rallied behind loser Jackson's whine of voter

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:21 PM

Jan 2022

fraud and corrupt deals and got voter rolls expanded. 1828, Jackson won and it's been downhill ever since.

brooklynite

(94,333 posts)

3. Letting more people vote was a bad thing?

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:26 PM

Jan 2022

Six States didn't let people vote for President at all.

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