I always maintain that the timeline split with the assassination of RFK. Had he lived, he would have been elected president, instead of Nixon, Vietnam would have ended much earlier, and America would have gone down a brighter path in the 70s, instead of the dark path we’re still on.
More importantly, Nixon wouldn’t have resigned, inspiring aides Cheney and Ailes to conceive a Conservative Propaganda Machine, that would start slowly, but pick up speed after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan in 1986, and the rise of Rush Limbaugh, who bears the credit/responsibility of the 1994 Congressional election, which saw Gingrich and the proto-MAGAs take over Congress, and then the establishment of FoxNews.
It’s all Sirhan’s fault. He may be the most influential person of the post-WWII era.
Rewind it further and Johhny doesn’t get assassinated, exposes the remainders of the Business Plot and dismantles the military industrial complex before it gets further entrenched. Those two moves would have cut off a lot of the forces which led to where we are now.
Which happened during the first term of Bill Clinton.
I’m not following you. Are you saying Bill Clinton was a left extremist?
No, very far from it!
I’m saying that far right demagogues, under the leadership of Newt Gingrich, took over the GOP during his first term.
Though in truth, the process had its infancy under Nixon if not even earlier.
Fucking rush Limbaugh is a majority of the reason that “everyday” people moved to the far far right
I always maintain that the timeline split with the assassination of RFK. Had he lived, he would have been elected president, instead of Nixon, Vietnam would have ended much earlier, and America would have gone down a brighter path in the 70s, instead of the dark path we’re still on.
More importantly, Nixon wouldn’t have resigned, inspiring aides Cheney and Ailes to conceive a Conservative Propaganda Machine, that would start slowly, but pick up speed after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan in 1986, and the rise of Rush Limbaugh, who bears the credit/responsibility of the 1994 Congressional election, which saw Gingrich and the proto-MAGAs take over Congress, and then the establishment of FoxNews.
It’s all Sirhan’s fault. He may be the most influential person of the post-WWII era.
Rewind it further and Johhny doesn’t get assassinated, exposes the remainders of the Business Plot and dismantles the military industrial complex before it gets further entrenched. Those two moves would have cut off a lot of the forces which led to where we are now.