Midnight Marauder
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In 1979 when I was close to your age, getting ready to vote for the first time, Ronald Reagan said something that resonates still, for me today and is just as relevant:You'll learn those people simply don't exist in the real world, only in the minds of far-left pundits and talking heads. It's just a strawman deflection tactic, because they cannot defend what's going on right now. In their heart of hearts, they knew Obama was going to be a fuck-up. Now they're doing everything they can -- including falling on their rhetorical sword -- to make sure others don't start seeing it.
I would love to think that they don't exist in the real world but I've seen them at my school.
So far though, Obama seems to be bringing up a certain lyric in my head:
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
Today, I replace Carter with Obama in that quote.
Reagan is the ONLY Republican I ever voted for. And I lived through the Carter years, we still have not really approached that level of dismal economic failure since. I am talking double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation. Horrendous economic times. That and just the overall bad feeling, the bad feeling we all had as Americans, to be Americans. Because Carter actually RAN on that negativity. Promoted it. Went around the world apologizing for how bad we are. Running down his country and the previous administrations. Just like what you're seeing now.
So it's "meet the new boss, same policies as the last boss but with the negativity of an older boss."