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I remember growing up in the 80's when it seemed like people weren't nearly as partisan as they are today; however, I was a teenager, so I didn't follow politics all that close. In the 90's I remember people being about the same. You had your liberals, and you had your conservatives, but people seemed much less partisan than they are today. It was right around the new millennium that I noticed people becoming much more divisive in regards to politics. 911 brought us together for a bit, but by the time Bush was in his second term, D's and R's were at each others throats like I had never really seen. Just when it seemed that people couldn't be any more partisan, Obama was elected and the trend continued only it's gotten even worse IMO.
Who was of voting age in the 60's and 70's? What was it like? where people this partisan back then. One would think that people must have not seen eye to eye on all the huge changes that took place in those decades.
Oh Honey, you missed the turmoil of the late 60's/early 70's. They had to bring the police into the Democratic convention. There was literally fighting in the streets over political differences. People died. I suggest you look up the shooting at Kent State.
I wasn't voting age until the late 80's but I think the split has always been here based on stories I've heard. It's just that now days we have the internet which by the time Bush was in his second term almost everybody has. On it anything can be said by anybody while hiding behind the anonymity of a fake name and keyboard. If your a young kid you can repeat your parents beliefs and add some exaggeration. Anybody can become an instant "expert" and again because of that anonymity can be very confrontational and harsh towards anybody with a different opinion.
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I wasn't partisan, I despised both LBJ(D) and Nixon(R) for their roles in putting and keeping is in a useless, unnecessary war of choice and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara(R) was no hero either. May all three rot in a special section of hell.
Instead of looking back to just the 60's and 70's look back to the partisan fighting in Congress and the Senate starting in 1900...
Makes the partisanship look tame in the 60's 70's right up through 2014...
NFN, it's scary that so many of our young people are totally oblivious to what occurred in American politics throughout it's history...
Even further back than that...
In the campaign that followed, the Federalists depicted Jefferson as a godless nonbeliever and a radical revolutionary; he was often called a Jacobin, after the most radical faction in France during the French Revolution. His election, it was charged, would bring about a reign of terror in the nation. The Republicans cast Adams as a monarchist and the Federalist Party as an enemy of republicanism, including the greater egalitarianism promised by the American Revolution. The level of personal attack by both parties knew no bounds. At one point, Adams was accused of plotting to have his son marry one of the daughters of King George III and thus establish a dynasty to unite Britain and the United States. The plot had been stopped, according to the story, only by the intervention of George Washington, who had dressed in his old Revolutionary War uniform to confront Adams with sword in hand. Jefferson, meanwhile, was accused of vivisection and of conducting bizarre ritualistic rites at Monticello, his home in Virginia.
No, I think in the 60's and 70's, both sides agreed that government wasnt your mother and not responsible for you. They viewed it as a safety net, not a way of life.
I stopped being a Democrat when they began to believe that things like welfare, stimulated more than jobs..
I wasn't partisan, I despised both LBJ(D) and Nixon(R) for their roles in putting and keeping is in a useless, unnecessary war of choice and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara(R) was no hero either. May all three rot in a special section of hell.
Nixon ended the war
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