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Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:15 PM

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

Unfortunately, this barrel has no bottom.

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AZLD4Candidate Jan 2022 OP
brooklynite Jan 2022 #1
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brooklynite Jan 2022 #3

Response to AZLD4Candidate (Original post)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:19 PM

1. Um, context?

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Response to brooklynite (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:21 PM

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

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

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Response to AZLD4Candidate (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:26 PM

3. Letting more people vote was a bad thing?

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

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