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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Aug 20 2004, 02:52 PM
I think that what some people percieve as a lack of respect today is that things get said in public that used to only be said in private.
Do you think Democrats today "hate" Bush any more than Republicans hated Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy or Johnson, or Democrats hated Hoover, Nixon or Reagan? Do you think that any criticism of the war in Iraq is any less violent than the criticisms of WWI, WWII, Korea or Vietnam? Do you think Enron and the business scandals of today are any more unethical or on any less a grand scale than Teapot Dome? Do you think the gang violence of the 90s was any more violent than the gang violence of the 20s?
Those "honorable" people you are talking about wouldn't have thought a damn thing about not voting (going to school with, etc., etc., ect.) for someone just because they were a Jew or a Catholic. Those "respectful" people you seem to think are so much better than people of today couldn't really understand that there was something wrong with sending a man off to die "for freedom" but denying him the right to vote when he returned from the war. Those "honorable" people you seem so fond of would look the other way if a man beat his wife within an inch of her life for failing to have dinner prepared when he returned home from work.
Spare me that happy-crappy, bro ...
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Great post, PD!
I don't think the kind of "hate" some have for Bush today is anything like the "hate" that, say, Lincoln experienced from Southern voters or that Truman experienced when some of his own delegates walked out of the Democratic Convention.
Political fighting is quite a bit tamer than it once was. There seem to be no more Hamilton/Burrs.
I think the criticism of the Iraq war is much less than Vietnam or Korea. Korea left Truman the least approved president in history (at the time he left office). Vietnam is so
deeply etched in US history that people who are anti whatever war we're currently in refer to every minor border skirmish as "another Vietnam".
Great call also on 20s gang violence.
These are quiet times in America compared to most of the past few centuries.