Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "James Carville: Post Election Plan" video.

It started with Ronald Reagan. Here’s an interesting tidbit: The Heritage Foundation, which was started in 1973 (yes, really), who are the creators of Project 2025, and the lead title for which is Mandate for Leadership, had a Mandate for Leadership in 1981, which had many of the same ideas as the one for 2025, but not quite as radical, which they gave to Reagan, who adopted about 80% of it. It had deep cuts to education, which started what we call “the dumbing down of America”, because they know that poorly educated people are much more easy to manipulate, especially when they don’t learn civics, logic, critical thinking and respectful debate, which is why trump said “I love the poorly educated”. But of course he does, and that’s why we’re where we are today.
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@dv3507 Yup. That was when we started seeing bumper stickers like “My son is the top student at XXXX Junior High School”, and kids were given trophies for doing next to nothing. I remember thinking, even back then that this was going to raise a generation of self-centered, self-important people. I had no idea how right I was, or how widespread it would be. And then, because women not only could go to work, they HAD to go back to work just to keep the family afloat financially, and they were so tired that they just pushed the latest electronic gadgets into the kids’ hands to keep them occupied. Most of us could see that that wasn’t going to turn out well. (And I’m not blaming the women. They were just trying to save their sanity with what they had). And on a humorous side note about the bumper stickers, I once saw one back then that I wish I had bought. It said “My mother was inmate of the month at Las Colinas”. (Las Colinas is a women’s prison [which I’m sure you guessed] out in the desert east of where I live). It would have been so appropriate for the time and place.
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⁠ @Fruit17-ip4vl And yet, Mexico just elected their first woman president! Yes, Mexico! And Mexico is pretty misogynistic, so that’s a massive condemnation of us.
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@Barb-Pet Absolutely.
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@Guitaroneyear They decided that democracy was worth giving up to make sure we didn’t get a Black Woman President. And, to be fair, I think they would have done the same thing to an equally qualified, intelligent and compassionate white woman. They just really, really hate women. Yet, irony of ironies, Mexico just elected their first woman President, by a landslide! Yes, Mexico!
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@Guitaroneyear No they decided they didn’t want a woman, and certainly not a Black woman as president. They would actually rather have fascism and an incredibly stupid and corrupt dictator over that.
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Don’t forget the nausea.
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