When I was a kid politics was really different! The right wanted kind of cruel and greedy things, but made it sound good by claiming to be about fiscal responsibility, honesty, and hard work, a little like how the ACW was about states’ rights. And the left who protested, sometimes died, and were ridiculed for wanting to spend money on ideas like “maybe women are human” or “maybe we shouldn’t kill people abroad for no real reason.” BUT NOW times have changed and…
… fuck it, it’s still the same.
@Yotenotes I feel like it got a lot more openly bigoted. Maybe having a Black president really DID break them at some level, that it was some sort of sign their stranglehold would go away if they didn’t really push back. The code words and dog whistles are basically gone now.
@Leucrotta yeah, agreed!
@Leucrotta I feel like they're trying less hard to make the cruel greedy things sound good though.