• chakan2@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    No…this is recent (in US history). I was excited to vote for Obama. Clinton (Bill) was a good candidate. Bush Sr…even though he was a douche, was still moderately presidential. Kerry would have been OK.

    The giant shit show you’re seeing today really just started in the past decade.

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      4 months ago

      The giant shit show you’re seeing today really just started in the past decade.

      It started with Nixon. That was the prototype for modern American political theater. Then Reagan legitimized having a celebrity, glad hander, and straight up fucking traitor in the White House. After that it has been a slow regression from performative politics into reality television.