The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(01-19-2022, 03:34 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-19-2022, 01:47 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-18-2022, 11:24 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-18-2022, 09:45 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(01-18-2022, 04:58 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Neoliberalism is anything but liberal.  It is spent as an ideology and has failed.

So, how far away do you think we are from being able to give Reaganomics last rites?

How close do you think you are to being discarded by America? I'd say that you're within five years of losing every American right and Constitutional protection that you currently have and take for granted today.

That's funny, actually.  Your Liberty or Death cult is getting older by the moment.  Eventually, assuming you guys manage to take full control, your rulers will finally prove that they are only in it for the money ... all the money.  The rest of us will watch as you revenge yourselves by taking to the streets, armed to the teeth, and killing all the innocents you encounter ...  but your leaders will still have the money and the power.

Classic Xer's hero was portrayed well on Perry Mason in 1966, in episode #266, "The Unwelcome Well." 
Actor Wendell Corey, formerly the lead in a series called The Eleventh Hour, played oil baron and subsequent murder victim Jerome Klee, who decided to cap a big new oil find on a hillbilly's property because he had made a much bigger new oil deal with an Arab leader, so using the big Rohan field now (the hillbilly's field) as Perry (then Klee's lawyer) had persuaded Rohan to allow, would depress the crude price on the world market. But Rohan had mortgaged his house and his land to buy stuff in anticipation of the oil revenue. Perry says "but he's liable to lose his land. You can't DO that!"

Klee says the last time anyone told him what to do, it was his own father, and he broke his jaw for him. He was the last one to try it!

Perry: "I see you have most of your associates intimidated"

Klee: "Oh, but not YOU Perry!"

Perry: "No, I'm not intimidated, I'm appalled. What kind of a man ARE you?"

Klee. "A money man, Mr. Mason. Some people collect boats, art; heaven knows why I don't. I collect money; it's as simple as that."

Perry: "How much money do you want?


Klee: "If I can get it, all there is."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673422/cha.../nm0179819

Corey himself ran for congress soon afterward as a Republican, but lost and then died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Corey

Corey was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1961 to 1963 and was a member of the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild. A Republican campaigner in national politics since 1956, Corey was elected to the Santa Monica City Council in April 1965.[10] The conservative politician ran for a California seat in the United States Congress in 1966, but lost the primary election. He was still a councilman at the time of his death.

Corey supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.