• flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The difference is that when Nixon was President we all shared the same facts and reality.

    Today’s Republicans will simply never accept the reality that Trump is a criminal.

    If you don’t understand that distinction, you’ve been missing the big picture.

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      1 year ago

      @flossdaily

      Were you alive during Nixon? I was a baby but I interacted with people Trump’s age when I was a child. I don’t know if it’s the lead in the air back then or what but more than half of all adults seemed terminally stupid. I was a child and I thought they were stupid.

      We’ve clearly got a lot of people who think Trump’s smart today but Trump’s brand of gibberish was just considered “common sense” in the 80s. Social media hasn’t made us dumber, it’s just allowed the dumbest people to find each other more easily.

      Regarding us all sharing the same facts when Nixon was president, that’s just not true. People lived in a very divided America then as well. Social media and the refinement of propaganda techniques does make things seem more hopeless today but the same Roger Stone who’s fucking things up today was around back then. He was doing exactly what he’s doing today back then.