Posted by 3Dee on December 3, 2017, 12:45 pm, in reply to "Re: JFK"
I agree with a lot of what you said...
I just don't want to get into it that the topic is JFK. Better to stay with that angle of it.
I only knew Reagan, Bushes, Clintons, and Obama...and this monstrosity we're enduring at present...so I can't speak on JFK, Nixon, Ford, or even Carter.
It sounds as if Carter were a decent human being but a horrible politician --- and just out slicked by Reagan, who already was beginning his trickery by keeping those hostages tied up until he was elected president. He stole more than an election, and his legacy lives on.
It's interesting that the more conservative voices compare JFk to the Republicans of today, while many voices to the left are compare themselves to Eisenhower.
That's why the talking points of the Democratic or Republican party of the past are pretty much moot. Everyone has their time and season, and everyone has their moment of opportunity on which to pounce.
Because of that -- both sides have extreme baggage as well.
It's important not to trust either side blindly.
If Trump were to be a class character - and not take a nuclear option to the environment, education, healthcare, decency, racism.... and his main effort were simple job creation ------ I may have had a different take on him.
He didn't have an agenda -- he had a demographic to capture. He found a group of people at the LCD (look it up as a math term) and exploited it beautifully.
Maybe Obama and those before him did a little more of that that we would like to admit.
I just hate that sometimes it becomes a battle between two sides only. The real picture is more nuanced than that.
The moniker of a party is just that --- things change over time ---- and some hucksters somewhere will always try to do a PT Barnum on the mass of suckers out there.
on December 3, 2017, 12:45 pm, in reply to "