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In reply to the discussion: I am disgusted to my fucking core about the state of this country. [View all]betsuni
(25,840 posts)I could never figure out why it was so funny though, and why nobody laughed when women wore men's clothes.
The book banning and worrying about everything is classic right-wing to me. My nutty right-wing mother thought that if she ever discussed sexuality and birth control, booze and cigarettes, or anything like that, we children would run right out and have sex with the first person we saw, end up pregnant in the gutter surrounded by empty whiskey bottles and cigarette butts. For the rest of her life, she weep bitter tears of regret for sending her children to public school -- the worst mistake of her life, she said. Except now the nuts have power they never had before.
Students at the Christian college I attended in the early '80s panicked about Halloween (encouraging Satan), the movie "The Life of Brian," some political science classes required a subscription to The New York Times but changed to the Christian Science Monitor just to distract them because it had "Christian" in the title. It's always something.
Biden will be reelected. The country will go limping along. Then after eight years of competence, those few swing voters will decide, "Oh, lets give the other side a chance" and put Republicans in charge and whole thing repeats. Until more non-nutty/completely uninformed Americans vote.