Hi everyone. I'm Jeff. I used to be a registered Republican. I even voted for George Herbert Walker Bush, though I thought Papa Reagan was dirty from the Iran-Contra scandal.
And then I heard Newt Gingrich make a deal with the devil. He whipped out his shriveled little pecker and pissed on the establishment clause. Let's invite religious extremists to shape political policy, because it is perfectly fine as long as they vote for us. Everyone has an asshole, but it's ok because it is -our- asshole.
Bill Clinton? Had he been running for president in the 70s and 80s, he would have made Nixon and Ford look like liberals.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle started getting more and more conservative. Obama's stances, like BC & RDC, would have been deemed very conservative in the 70s and 80s. Even the Affordable Care Act was as accommodating as possible to the real crooks in health care, the insurance industry, who as middle men extort a profit from the healthy and let the government and hospitals pick up the tab for the sickly. Want to fix health care? It has to be single payer OR private payer, but government regulating what hospitals can charge --no $5 tongue depressors, thank you very much.
George W. Bush? Something of a puppet of special interest money. Cheney held a lot of influence, but he was under the guidance of
_Dark Money_. Read it and see what happened to American Politics. You can't blame the Kremlin--hell, the US screws with foreign elections all the time--it was the flood of undisclosed cash that is at fault.
Legalized bribery and old-school propaganda.