02-07-2015, 03:39 AM
After Bobby Kennedy's assassination, Nixon won the White House in a very close election. Largely because Humphrey hesitated in denouncing the Vietnam War because of pressure from Johnson. Also because Anna Chenault cooperated with Nixon in not getting peace talks going since Nixon promised the SVN government a better deal than LBJ.
Without those factors involved, Nixon likely would have lost.
When Nixon took office, John Mitchell said,"This country is going to swing so far right, you won't recognize it."
Pretty darn accurate.
The problem is that this rightward curve was continued under Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Bush. To the point that stealing elections in Florida and Ohio became SOP. Not even investigated by the Justice Department or FBI.
The extreme rightward and lawless pressure pulled the center and left with it. To the point that we have a political spectrum that goes all the way to the right, including Libertarians and Neo Nazis, to the center, which is where the Democrats are, and the left extends about as far out as Howard Dean. Which means, there is no Left in political terms in this country.
The last vestige of it died at the Ambassador Hotel.
But these right wing fruitcakes don't want you to think that is the case. So they say, well see JFK and MLK were really conservatives.
What pablum. Its so crazy, but that is the world we live in today.
I say go to Costa Rica.
Without those factors involved, Nixon likely would have lost.
When Nixon took office, John Mitchell said,"This country is going to swing so far right, you won't recognize it."
Pretty darn accurate.
The problem is that this rightward curve was continued under Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Bush. To the point that stealing elections in Florida and Ohio became SOP. Not even investigated by the Justice Department or FBI.
The extreme rightward and lawless pressure pulled the center and left with it. To the point that we have a political spectrum that goes all the way to the right, including Libertarians and Neo Nazis, to the center, which is where the Democrats are, and the left extends about as far out as Howard Dean. Which means, there is no Left in political terms in this country.
The last vestige of it died at the Ambassador Hotel.
But these right wing fruitcakes don't want you to think that is the case. So they say, well see JFK and MLK were really conservatives.
What pablum. Its so crazy, but that is the world we live in today.
I say go to Costa Rica.