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YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
7. Back in the 70s, as editor of my hs yearbook. I devoted about 2 pgs to this debacle.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:30 PM
Feb 2017

I thought it so important in our history that we should remember this era. Many scratched their heads as to why I would want to devote space to Nixon's ultimate impeachment. Well, history repeats itself, and in entirely different but similar way. Sometimes it's always worse.

 

Fast Walker 52

(7,723 posts)
9. sad... I saw Robert Reich on Facebook live tonight explaining Watergate to his audience
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:34 PM
Feb 2017

I remember it as a kid-- but for so many people, it is ancient history

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
10. There is so much corruption in the House and the Senate that it has become a ''norm''.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:54 PM
Feb 2017

Because young people don't understand the magnitude of our Constitution, it's not about maliciousness, it's about the stupidity of getting caught. Cheating, deceptiveness, pay-for-play have become as American as baseball and hot dogs on a summer afternoon. No moral compass for especially young Trump supporters.

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