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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Ah, youth. 
I grew up in the land of Jesse Helms -- I remember when he did editorials on the local news, before he got into politics. He was bringing out heaps of crazy from the far right and the far left long before Bush or Obama came along.
FWIW, I think the main thing that's different is the internet, which makes it much easier to dissiminate the crazy. Twenty-five years ago, people pretty much had to rely on print media, radio or word of mouth to get the crazy ideas out there. TV wasn't going to cover it too much. But now you can email the latest absurdity to all your contacts as a WARNING of SOMETHING WE CAN'T LET HAPPEN. There are websites upon websites chock-full of ABSOLUTELY TRUE inanities. The internet has no filter, and it makes it much easier to spread the crazy around. |
And that's the problem! People have a bad habit of believing whatever they read. I can't tell you how many crazy emails I have gotten from republican friends since Obama started running for President. They haven't paid attention that I'm a Democrat. I don't hide it, but I don't post political tirades on FB or get into political discussions with friends of opposing views....I don't think we'd be friends for long
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As much as people want to say that race has nothing to do with the difference now, I have a huge disagreement. It may not be why people disagree with what Obama is doing or what he stands for, but it is why a LOT of people are so violently opposed to him and can't even listen to a single thing he proposes. No one I know liked Bill Clinton, but he and Hillary didn't ellicit a response as strong as President Obama. I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of ugly, racist emails I've gotten about Obama. I just delete them. I'm really disappointed mainly. I will agree with everyone that he's not a perfect president, but I think he's done a generally good job since he's been in office. He's done what he said he'd do since he was elected, so if you didn't like what he said he'd do, obviously you aren't excited.