When Was America Great?

[boatsnguitars]

"Republicans, over all, recall the late 1950s and the mid-1980s most fondly. Sample explanations: “Reagan.” “Economy was booming.” “No wars!” “Life was simpler.” “Strong family values.” The distribution of Trump supporters’ greatest years is somewhat similar to the Republican trend, but more widely dispersed over the last 70 years. Supporters of Ted Cruz picked best years that were similar to the party’s trend over all. The sample of John Kasich supporters in the survey was too small to detect any patterns."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... in/481167/

This is fascinating to me. Republicans almost completely choose years in which Democrats held power, and describe them as “Economy was booming.” “No wars!” “Life was simpler.” “Strong family values.”



We all know Republicans can't govern, and GOP supporters are well known for their contradictions, but this is rather stark. Also, consider this:



Note how Republicans opinion about the Federal Government vastly changes based on who wins the Presidency - yet, generally, the House and Senate stay the same, but certainly, the entire Federal Government generally stays the same, as the Government employees and laws are pretty much the same year to year. This suggests to me Republicans react to the figurehead, and have no understanding of how government works.

This graph shows how Republicans have become more extremist suddenly, rushing to extreme Conservatism while most people are more Moderate. And this graph ends in 2011 - it's gotten worse.

So, when was America Great? Was it when Democrats were in charge - and is it time to return to “Economy was booming.” “No wars!” “Life was simpler.” “Strong family values”?


Special challenge: Please post a graph that adds to your comment. Let's try to get this filled with charts and graphs!

[marke]

You're "not extreme" compared to what?

Do you think the people behind the black teenager were more or less frightened of changes to the social order than you are? Which of the people in that image, if any, would you characterize as extremist? With whom in that image would you most closely identify? Many of the people in that image presumably knew the difference between black and white. In what ways is that similar to your own attitude? In what ways is it different?

Marke: My white aunt was a student at Little Rock High when that pohoto was made and she befriended black girls because skin color did not matter to her, but her father was a preservative (not 'conservative' but 'preservative' supporter of the racist democrat party and true believer in the racist democrat mindset of his day.

Adam (the) Shaft, corrupt: Hillary (rotten) Clinton, corrupt: Joe Biden (corrupt). Russia gate (lies).

Moderates don't often punctuate their public rhetoric with name-calling. Do you think all Democrats do that? If not, how extreme does one have to be to start doing so?

Men playing contact sports against girls,

This is the second time you've referred to trans people. This must be really important to you.

more ignorant Democratic bull. etc.

Ignorant of what? What knowledge do you think you're privy to that Democrats aren't?

Democrats like Obama, Nancy, Joe, Chucky boy, and Hillary came into Congress as middle-class Americans, and now each one is a multi-millionaire.

In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law. In 2009, Obama's net worth was quoted at $1.3 million dollars. This was after a career as a lawyer, a State Senator, and a U.S. Senator. He is also married to a lawyer. I currently make less than the public salaries of high-ranking politicians and the lawyers I know, but my net worth, which includes things like retirement accounts, is nearly a million dollars. I'm not a politician, let alone a corrupt one. In recent years, Obama has become a top-selling author, which is plausibly responsible for his subsequent increase in wealth. Simple net worth is hardly grounds for accusations of corruption and you (and Glenn Beck) will have to do better than that.

Over one trillion dollars is unaccounted for under the Biden administration. How do you lose a trillion dollars?

You'll have to tell us where those numbers come from and what they mean.

That's your Democratic party of pimps and thieves.

Here's a slogan the Democrats can use: "We are the party of inaccuracies of oddities."

This doesn't sound extremist at all.

[help3434]

The 1950s were the best years. The War was over, homes were being built for veterans and working families, and our farmers were producing food for the nation. Then Korea started, and it changed everything.

The Korean war was at the beginning of the 50s.