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I don't even consider myself that old, but I can empathize with what you are saying. It seems people, not so long ago, were able to compromise. What happened?
It seems to me the nation is split right down the middle thats not a good thing JMHO
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain" Winston Churchill
This is actually an anonymous quote, which has been falsely attributed to Winston Churchill. The fact is, no one ever heard Churchill make this comment. At what point and by whom it was falsely attributed to Churchill is anyone's guess, however, here's a little explanation by Paul Addison of Eddinburgh University that you might like:
"There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd have been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/quotes-falsely-attributed
But whoever's quote it is, it is employed speciously by right wingers in the U.S. and means little or nothing.
I could come up with an equally significant or insignificant quote as well:
"Anyone who is not a liberal by 35, has not grown past the Freudian oral stage, and is forever stuck in seeking only personal gratification."
Wow. I must've been living on another planet while all this was going on.
I actually THOUGHT that the Republicans had been digging their heels politically refusing to work with the Democrats on ANYTHING, and preventing anything from being passed or approved that might remotely be good for the country. In fact, I thought they were still doing that.
GEE, I sure as h*ll need to catch up, obviously!
You mean things like Obamacare and the trillion dollar stimulus?
When were officeholders bribed by the leadership to vote in favor of tax increases on the wealthy the way they were to vote for Obamacare?
You mean things like Obamacare and the trillion dollar stimulus?
When were officeholders bribed by the leadership to vote in favor of tax increases on the wealthy the way they were to vote for Obamacare?
Still watching the shiny coin?
You mean the right wing nutjobs didn't litigate it all the way to the Supremes? Don't tell me the right wing nutjobs haven't been working hard against anything Democrats wanted to do?
As for the trillion dollar stimulus, go talk to your right wing nutjobs, whose most lucrative contributors happen to be.... tatata taaaaaaaaaaaaa! BANKS! So that wasn't a Democratic incentive. That was Repugs not wanting their election funds to dry up.
Honestly at the core its Old vs Young that's dividing the country and then its race, and sexuality comes in third but they all bounce back to old vs young.
Which shows we have always been a divided nation from day one.
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