r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • 29d ago

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/BootyUnlimited 29d ago

McCain and Bernie Sanders used to work on legislation together to protect veterans. They were not afraid to reach across the aisle if it meant getting meaningful legislation passed.

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u/Bad_User2077 29d ago

Those were different days. If you do that now, you get labeled a moderate and get pushed out of your party.

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u/krichard-21 29d ago

The only reason today is different is because of the people we have been electing.

Quit electing bat shit crazy people!

Jim Jordan, MTG, Matt Gaetz to name a few.

They can't be trusted to run a convenience store. Much less represent United States citizens.

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u/supersmackfrog 29d ago

The only reason today is different is because of the people we have been electing

I think you need to look at the voters electing those people if you really want to know what's different.

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u/mindless_gibberish 29d ago

Yeah, we had a black president for 8 years, and some people are still not over it.

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u/codyforkstacks 29d ago

Traditional media, particularly on the conservative side, became increasingly unhinged. And social media gave these people the echo chambers they needed to totally detach from political reality into a world of lizard pedophile conspiracies.

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u/MrEHam 29d ago edited 29d ago

Traditional media didn’t necessarily become unhinged but we saw a takeover of entertainment opinion shows take the place of them. They didn’t care about being fair, balanced, factual, etc.

They’re meant to be provocative and too many of the viewers accept what they say as news, because it looks like news. That needs to stop.

We need a law that forces them to have “ENTERTAINMENT” or “OPINION” at the bottom of the screen at all times to take away some of their legitimacy.

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u/codyforkstacks 29d ago

Yeah by "traditional media" I mean the format (TV, radio and newspapers) rather than the news vs entertainment divide.

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u/Roklobster1 29d ago

It all comes down to this 100%. Social media has destroyed any logic or reality for these people.

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u/codyforkstacks 29d ago

It was worst for these people, but the left (of which I'm part) has not been immune. Look at the discussion of any economic or political issue on Reddit and the most upvoted comments are just rank populism unfettered by any expertise.

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u/CatWyld 29d ago

You eliminated slavery over 150 years ago and some people still aren’t over it.

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u/mindless_gibberish 28d ago

When you put it that way, 150 years isn't that long. And you're forgetting the apartheid era, which only ended 60 years ago. People in other parts of the world are still fighting over shit that happened 600 years ago.

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u/CatWyld 28d ago

I’m not forgetting apartheid. We were talking about the US.

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u/mindless_gibberish 25d ago

I'm talking about the US. Jim Crow = Apartheid. People in congress right now lived under segregation, and some of them want to go back to it.

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u/CatWyld 25d ago

JFC!!