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To: Leaning Right

Here’s what I don’t get..

When Reagan and Bush won three in a row.. why wasn’t that the end of the Democrats?

The Democrats have never won landslides like Nixon and Reagan won, and yet somehow they have gained nearly complete control of our country and have conservatives spouting that the end is near.


4 posted on 08/24/2016 9:56:14 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Because GHWB was a Democrat in an R jersey and undermined any progress made.
He was the one who made sure the enforcement part of the 1986 amnesty never happened.


9 posted on 08/24/2016 9:59:26 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Because under Clinton, the demographics will change. Congress will do nothing to stop her from implementing her policies through executive orders, nor will they stop her nominations for the Supreme Court and other federal judiciaries.


20 posted on 08/24/2016 10:03:46 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The Democrats have never won landslides like Nixon and Reagan won, and yet somehow they have gained nearly complete control of our country and have conservatives spouting that the end is near.

The election of Hillary would assure a commie/leftist supreme court, which would include the end of the Bill of Rights. Illegals will outnumber legals, and we will all be working to support someone other than our own families. Reagan was not a statist. The 'rats and GOPe are. The election of Hillary = Fed. Gov. decides which rights it will bestow or not.

24 posted on 08/24/2016 10:05:25 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

They got control of the teachers unions and the schools - K thru College


25 posted on 08/24/2016 10:06:00 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
When Reagan and Bush won three in a row.. why wasn’t that the end of the Democrats?

Because the Alinskyite democrats are politically smarter, more clever, and more insidious than the republicans.

They took the long view, and it's paying off now. First they took control of the media, then they took control of the education institutions, and when even that wasn't enough, as the final coup de grace they replaced the American electorate with foreign and fraudulent voters.

27 posted on 08/24/2016 10:09:52 AM PDT by jpl (Obama lied when Stevens died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

They’ve indoctrinated for decades in education and Republicans have said nothing in regular elections to inform people about how you can’t sustain a country with no borders and half being on some form of government program or employment.

Letting all local illegals that don’t care for us changes our voting patterns and culture.
Look at how out newest culture are all tatted up and about 20% also have a recreational drug issue. Not good!


42 posted on 08/24/2016 10:28:33 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Because there was no rollback, and when the Democrats inevitably got the White House, after the Bush betrayal of Reagan, they picked up right where they left off. When Republicans get office, all they do is hold the line on what Democrats previously did. It’s called the Ratchet Effect.


43 posted on 08/24/2016 10:31:27 AM PDT by Defiant (After 8 years of Chump Change, it's time for Trump Change.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Demography is destiny. Since 1990 we have brought in 35 million legal permanent immigrants, 87% of whom are minorities. Immigrants and their children account for 80% of our population growth.

By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities and by 2043 non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the population down from 63% today and 89% in 1970. Immigrants and minorities vote more than two to one Dem.

Each year we bring in 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants. They represent hundreds of thousands of future Dem voters. The status quo on legal immigration will make the Dems the permanent majority party within a decade.


46 posted on 08/24/2016 10:35:03 AM PDT by kabar
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To: TexasFreeper2009

That’s because a lot of republicans are really Democrat’s.


47 posted on 08/24/2016 10:36:41 AM PDT by stockpirate (BEST F'ING ELECTION EVER)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

why wasn’t that the end of the Democrats?


They took more over other institutions such as media, churches, schools, etc.

They saw ways to increase base was get more voters dependent on government...


54 posted on 08/24/2016 10:47:32 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The GOP has moved away from Reagan and is now a Bush Party, which is Democrat ‘lite’.


56 posted on 08/24/2016 10:49:06 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Bushocrats are Democrat lite. Bush I couldn’t wait to destroy what Reagan had done. Just like Pence will probably do to Trump.


59 posted on 08/24/2016 10:53:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The Democrats have never won landslides like Nixon and Reagan won, and yet somehow they have gained nearly complete control of our country and have conservatives spouting that the end is near.

Among the groups you can thank are the NEA and the Department of Education. They've successfully dumbed down the electorate so that they continue to vote in our current kakistocracy.

1980's: Dumbing down begins...

Today's electorate. Behind those dulled eyes, nobody's home...


70 posted on 08/24/2016 11:35:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Trump is to the political class what Uber is to taxicab companies)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Two reasons.

Press spin.

Back then they could not do this as easily and get away with it. The support of major media and civil activist groups, as well as the country demographics, would not have been favorable to them. So they incrementally got the groundwork established.


73 posted on 08/24/2016 11:42:10 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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