I also remember when the president was a brain dead dementia addled moron war criminal who destroyed the economy.
…it happens every time a republican has been elected in my life time.
His asministration created the EPA and endangered species act and clean air act.
His administration was there when we landed on the moon. (The work started before him)
He lead the ratification to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.
His administration enforced the desegregation of schools (I don't know if he would of started the desegregation, but he over saw it)
He improved our relationship with native americans through both the epa and getting rid of the termination laws that that were forcing native americans to assimilate into America culture in an attempt to get rid of the native American and reservations.
Yes he did some shit things, but no president is going to make things great for 100% of people. The question should be, does this person only in it for themselves and people like them, and you can't say that for nixon. The republican party started to shift after Reagon and most republics will regard Reagon as the best president, and he was literally the worst.
Yeah, he was probably the most leftist President in the past 70 years.
He was also a drunk, a criminal, and he created the template that Reagan and his successors on the right used to manipulate the racist fuckwits that ultimately led to Trump.
How did he create that template.
I think most Republicans will say that Reagon was the "greatest" president of all time while his policies have directly contributed to wealth inequality. They also credit reagon for the modern republican.
I think the two biggest mistakes for nixon was health care and starting the war on drugs. Watergate gets too much attention in my opinion.
It's also worth noting that Nixon is one of us. He was poor (maybe middle class) and then built himself up to become president. He served in the military.
Reagon on the other was the 1% of people pissed off that FDR taxed him to save us from the great depression and World War 2. All of his policies are to protect the rick.
As far as being leftist, he was infact Eisenhower vice president and people said in the early 2000s that there is no way Eisenhower would be able to get the republican ticket. It's sad that the party went so far to the right because they actually were very moderate pre Reagon.
> How did he create that template.
Southern Strategy. Every Republican since Nixon has doubled down on the appeals to racist shit gibbons. From Nixon to Trump is a straight line, and the GOP has been seeking vengeance for Nixon's much deserved prosecution for our entire lives.
Nixon didn't win any of the 'deep south' states in the election. The election of 1968 those states were pro segregation and had heavy jim crow laws that barred black people from voting. They voted for George Wallace, the pro segregation and Jim crow laws. Who couldn't get the democratic vote because the democratic party had shifted a few years before that. That was the first election where the deep south gave up on their democratic roots and voted independent because they still did not like Republicans.
Texas still voted for humored. California voted for nixon. Oregon voted for nixon. Half the Midwest voted for nixon. And some of the upper east cost voted for nixon.
He did win the deep south in the second election.... along with EVERY OTHER STATE, but Massachusetts and DC.
Even with the protest over Vietnam (a war he adopted but LBJ started after probably having something to do with Kennedy), he still won every single American state... but Massachusetts and DC.
Nixon won Florida, Tennessee, both Carolinas, Virginia, and Kentucky in 1968.
More to the point, his tactic of appealing to the inherent racism of many white voters post-CRA undoubtedly helped him win most other states that while not considered "southern" certainly had and continue to have large blocs of voters who share that ideology.
Nixon's electoral strategy of using racism to motivate voters has been mimicked and expanded upon by every single Republican candidate since then, with distressingly successful results.
Nixon didn't win any of the 'deep south' states in the election. The election of 1968 those states were pro segregation and had heavy jim crow laws that barred black people from voting. They voted for George Wallace, the pro segregation and Jim crow laws. Who couldn't get the democratic vote because the democratic party had shifted a few years before that. That was the first election where the deep south gave up on their democratic roots and voted independent because they still did not like Republicans.
Texas still voted for humored. California voted for nixon. Oregon voted for nixon. Half the Midwest voted for nixon. And some of the upper east cost voted for nixon.
He did win the deep south in the second election.... along with EVERY OTHER STATE, but Massachusetts and DC.
Even with the protest over Vietnam (a war he adopted but LBJ started after probably having something to do with Kennedy), he still won every single American state... but Massachusetts and DC.
Also more on the template for running as loud racist republican (i.e. trump)
Here was one of Nixon's campaign speeches about bi-partisan agendas.
"In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices"
Yes, and for some reason, we got the Spitting Image show in Canada.
I know they did Thatcher, and a number of political leaders at the time. I forget if they had a John Major puppet, as I think it was the time he took over. Seems yes, they did John Major.
NGL, this video made me question my sanity the first time I saw it.
Ok, ok, ok, I MAY have had a couple tabs of acid on board that evening, but the sentiment stands. Songs pretty good though, and I got over the wierdness within the next day or so after....
As a kid I was both fascinated and repulsed by this one. Reagan drowning in his sweat in bed, and the guy (prince??) eating his tongue like a hot dog - those scenes were particularly disturbing to me - but I ALWAYS watched if it came on!
Been a big genesis fan, ever since the release of their 1980 album, duke. Before that I didn't really understand any of their work, it was too artsy, too intellectual...it was on duke where Phil Collins presence became more apparent. I think invisible touch is the group's undisputed masterpiece, its an epic meditation on intangibility at the same time it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding 3 albums. The brilliant ensemble playing of banks, Collins and Rutherford you can practically hear every nuance of every instrument, in terms of lyrical craftsmanship and sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism, take the lyrics to this song "Land of Confusion", in this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980's, about monogamy and commitment, the song is extremely uplifting...their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Phil Collins solo career, it seems to be more commercial...and therefore more satisfying in a narrower way. especially songs like, in the air tonight and against all odds. I also think, Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist! Sussudio, great, great song...personal favorite.
Any one remember a a show that used puppets like this that came out about the same time. The skit I remember was a detective who had his house cleaner over that would not clean his fridge. Decades later I read the Dirk Gently series and that scene was in the books.
the puppets still freak me out as badly as they did when this video was released. i hate them. i hated phil collin’s because of them for a long time, too, but i got over it.
I wore the hell out of that album listening to it when I had it on cassette. I got rid of the cassettes years ago in a garage sale, sadly, but still have the album on digits.
The good news is the majority of his administration are young millennials and Gen Xers. We all know that Biden listens to his staffers and his team.
I take comfort in that fact and want to see even more young people get into politics. Now if we could just get them to turn out to vote.
It’s interesting in our current times there’s absolutely no way that Phil Collins, Men at work or Huey Lewis and the news would be able to break into music because they would be considered too old and not camera worthy
I never laughed over that. I remember this trying to be a thing in the 1980s. I was waiting to go back to college and my older brother was going to be coming home to take me the next morning. I had already packed everything and my parents were out of town. I only had the TV to watch and one of these shows were on and I remember thinking to myself, "who the hell is entertained by this?" They looked like some sort of murderous celebrity clowns gone bad.
I’ll hear no more comments about Reagan’s cognitive decline from anyone after last night. Biden created an entirely new level, eons beyond whatever Reagan had.
I actually think Biden’s cognitive decline is pretty normal for a man in his 80s. The problem is he’s running for president in his 80s. It’s like when I took my dad for a hearing test and the doctor said his hearing was normal for a man his age. I was like, “but I have to repeat everything!” Doc was like, “yep, normal.”
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