A nation more polarized than I’ve ever seen in my career. And a culture in Washington where the very few wealthy and powerful have a seat at the table and everybody else is on the menu.
Eight years later, we have another Republican nominee who’s telling us the exact same thing:
This time it will be different, it really will. This time he’s going to put country before party, to change the tone, reach across the aisle, change the Republican Party, change the way Washington works.
We’ve seen this movie before, folks. But as everyone knows, the sequel is always worse than the original.
If we forget this history, we’re going to be doomed to repeat it — with four more just like the last eight, or worse. If you’re ready for four more years of George Bush, John McCain is your guy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/us/politics/15text-biden.html
Biden’s remarks Sept 15, 2008
(The internet is the invention the elites would have killed in the crib if they knew how easy it would be for the average Joe to research stuff and fact-check for themselves. Makes it damn awkward for the elites.)
(The internet is the invention the elites would have killed in the crib if they knew how easy it would be for the average Joe to research stuff and fact-check for themselves. Makes it damn awkward for the elites.)
Nobody really *knew*, but a few had some insight. The small government types saw the possibility much more than the establishment, because they saw bias in the establishment media.
But no one *knew* until the Republican revolution in 1994. The elite and establishment media were dumbfounded. This was not supposed to be possible.
Then the media doubled down and became actively, knowingly repressive and propagandistic. Any attempt at objectivity was gone. They *had* to defend their long, slow “revolution” against the masses.
It took 20 years for the mass of people to see the deception, but the Obama years finally did it.