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This political cycle started with the breaking of FAA union, does it (Original Post) CK_John May 2016 OP
It started with union-busting, true. Manifestor_of_Light May 2016 #1
 

Manifestor_of_Light

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1. It started with union-busting, true.
Sat May 7, 2016, 12:14 AM
May 2016

My dad was a union organizer and Reagan made him very angry. He said, "The first shot of the Reagan Revolution has been fired, and it's union busting." It must have been on the news that day. Boy was he pissed over the firing of the Air Traffic Controllers.
He said he'd gotten to the point where he wanted to spit every time the Repubs were on TV.

This may well be the dissolution of the Republican party because of their extreme right-wing pandering to anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-rational people. I am old enough that I remember when there were sensible Republicans around. My parent were die hard Democrats, but my dad never said anything bad about Eisenhower. In fact, he often quoted Eisenhower's farewell address, of "beware of the military-industrial complex". Probably because Dad fought in that war against Hitler in which General Eisenhower was Supreme Allied Commander. He knew of the huge costs of war and how it robs and impoverishes society by not spending money on what people need, whether it be food, shelter, infrastructure, police and fire departments, court systems, or whatever.

My parents had a few friends who were Republicans. I remember one family in which the dad was a stockbroker. They had three daughters and the oldest daughter became a stockbroker too. They were nice people. That was in the 1960s.

I even heard Lewis Black say this about Mitt Romney in 2012: "I liked his dad." His dad, George Romney, was what used to be called a sensible Republican. Fiscally responsible and sometimes socially liberal. I remember that even crazy Barry Goldwater had occasional moments of sanity. He was in favor of gay people in the military and said, "You don't have to be straight to shoot straight."

The Repubs created this Frankenstein monster of their own doing. I saw editorial cartoons two or three years ago predicting this with Frankenstein monsters in them. So those cartoonists saw what was happening.


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