Although, I can't recall when the swing to the left was. I thought we were always motivated by greed.
Yes, but it was once far less bad. You're likely not old enough to remember. I was a kid during the late 60s and early 70s and a teen during the mid-late 70s. The US was vastly more liberal then. Wrt economics alone, the situation for both women and blacks improved far more between 1967 and 1980 than they have in the succeeding 23 years. I watched the slow and terrible rise of the fundys in the late 70s - before that, I remember that religion was something the few people outside of the bible belt cared much about (at state I greatly preferred). The most liberal TV shows came very close to openly mocking all organized religion - I miss those days.
The fundys and the neo-cons changed this nation is huge number of subtle way and generally made it meaner, greedier, and more paranoid. It was far from paradise in 1978, but it was far better in many ways that it is 25 years later.
Wrt any link between Iraq and Al-Queda, I find that deeply unlikely since the Wahhabi terrorists of Al-Queda hate Hussein almost as much as they hate us, they are getting all the money they need from Saudi Arabia (including from their royal family, close allies of the Bush family).
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Date: 2003-03-29 03:49 pm (UTC)Yes, but it was once far less bad. You're likely not old enough to remember. I was a kid during the late 60s and early 70s and a teen during the mid-late 70s. The US was vastly more liberal then. Wrt economics alone, the situation for both women and blacks improved far more between 1967 and 1980 than they have in the succeeding 23 years. I watched the slow and terrible rise of the fundys in the late 70s - before that, I remember that religion was something the few people outside of the bible belt cared much about (at state I greatly preferred). The most liberal TV shows came very close to openly mocking all organized religion - I miss those days.
The fundys and the neo-cons changed this nation is huge number of subtle way and generally made it meaner, greedier, and more paranoid. It was far from paradise in 1978, but it was far better in many ways that it is 25 years later.
Wrt any link between Iraq and Al-Queda, I find that deeply unlikely since the Wahhabi terrorists of Al-Queda hate Hussein almost as much as they hate us, they are getting all the money they need from Saudi Arabia (including from their royal family, close allies of the Bush family).