03-09-2021, 06:01 PM
(03-06-2021, 10:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(03-06-2021, 04:49 PM)Einzige Wrote: Nobody cares; Eisenhower was a piece of shit too.
So tell me who really was good. Sure, I can fault people for voting for Donald Judas Trump in view of all the warning signs. We never get "perfect" because nobody is perfect.
The analogy between Obama and Eisenhower can be taken too far. After all, Ike appointed the car dealers to replace the new dealers, and supported a lot of cold war shenanigans. But brower's point is that today's political spectrum has gone so far right that Ike's so-called conservatism is almost as liberal as today's liberalism. And the voting pattern among states does seem to reflect the change, largely because the formerly democratic, racist southern and plain-state whites have jumped ship since 1964 and have joined the other conservatives, forgetting whatever populist liberalism they may have embraced back in W.J. Bryan's or even FDR's times.