Did Republicans Break the Millennials?

[USFREEDOM911]

You saw that too huh...

Rana saw it also and it caused her to groan in her realization of the truth.

[cawacko]

Does that include the left's continual fallback on labeling others as Nazis and/or Racists??
<probably not, HUH>

Exactly. He may be using different phrases but he’s still using them as insults.

[Irish]

Lol. THink govt spending grows the economy. We should have all been living large under Obummer!

[RB 60]

Right. No I didn't.

Holy smoke, The stupid is strong in this one (RB60).

The stupid and hypocrisy is evident in just about everything you post.

[Irish Exit]

Government grew at a higher rate under GWB than it had under any President since LBJ.

Not really. The largest recent year over year increase in federal spending happened in 2009 when it skyrocketed to a 17%+ increase over 2008. Some of that was Bush, but a lot of that was also Obama.

[Phantasmal]

Ah, yes he uses the same insults he accuses others of. He's a hypocrite.

You should try reading for content, it really help when you discuss issues. He was talking about very specific insuits, not insults in general.

Laughing at people who thanked you, too. They should read for content as well.

[Cypress]

Along the lines of my original point, the right-wingers are ironically responsible for the decline in negative stigma around terms like Marxist, socialist, commie, and so on. They spent so many years screeching "socialism" every time someone argued for any social spending, that they effectively redefined the term in popular culture. People thought, "well, if it's 'socialist' to want universal healthcare, like they have in every other wealthy nation, then I guess I'm a socialist." The right-wingers now wonder why when someone says "socialist" people don't react as if they've embraced Stalinism, but it's because of the reckless an exaggerated rhetoric of the right-wingers that the attitude shift happened. If they hadn't spent decades pretending every liberal was Chairman Mao, they wouldn't have worn away the reaction to those terms.

A good insight.

Republicans and rightwing message board posters have also spent careers hollering about and condemning European "socialism".

At this point, I am pretty sure every millennial who does not live in a trailer park is aware that Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Canada, Netherlands, France are pretty decent places to live. And if they are examples of "socialism", then socialism does not sound too bad at all!

[USFREEDOM911]

Buck tooth racist hillbilly etc. isn’t an insult? Can’t say it’s a phrase I use often but if I did it sure wouldn’t be used as a compliment

Maybe in his "circle of acquaintances" it's a term of endearment.

[USFREEDOM911]

Exactly. He may be using different phrases but he’s still using them as insults.

But then; it does seem that the left uses different definitions for the comments they make, when they're complaining about comments from the other side of the political fence.

[RB 60]

You should try reading for content, it really help when you discuss issues. He was talking about very specific insuits, not insults in general.

Laughing at people who thanked you, too. They should read for content as well.

Splitting hairs, aren't you?

[USFREEDOM911]

You should try reading for content, it really help when you discuss issues. He was talking about very specific insuits, not insults in general.

Laughing at people who thanked you, too. They should read for content as well.

You mean like the left's continual idea of labeling others as Nazi's and/or racists, for no other reason then it's become the left's "go to phrases"??

[Oneuli]

Government grew at a higher rate under GWB than it had under any President since LBJ.

What makes you think that? Take a look here:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total

In FY 2001 (Bush's first fiscal year), total government spending was $3,436 billion. In FY 2009, it was $5,969 billion. That's 7.1% growth, annualized. By comparison, in the Reagan years, we went from $1073 billion to $1905 billion. That's 7.4% annualized growth. Between FY 1969 and FY 1974 (Nixon) we went from $296 billion to $453 billion, which is 8.9% annualized. Certainly the GW Bush era looks like a crazy orgy of government spending next to the austerity of the Obama years, but it doesn't look out of line with prior periods.

[cawacko]

What makes you think that? Take a look here:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total

In FY 2001 (Bush's first fiscal year), total government spending was $3,436 billion. In FY 2009, it was $5,969 billion. That's 7.1% growth, annualized. By comparison, in the Reagan years, we went from $1073 billion to $1905 billion. That's 7.4% annualized growth. Between FY 1969 and FY 1974 (Nixon) we went from $296 billion to $453 billion, which is 8.9% annualized. Certainly the GW Bush era looks like a crazy orgy of government spending next to the austerity of the Obama years, but it doesn't look out of line with prior periods.

I’d have to google search to find the articles but it was well reported during the bush years his expansion of government

[USFREEDOM911]

A good insight.

Republicans and rightwing message board posters have also spent careers hollering about and condemning European "socialism".

At this point, I am pretty sure every millennial who does not live in a trailer park is aware that Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Canada, Netherlands, France are pretty decent places to live. And if they are examples of "socialism", then socialism does not sound too bad at all!

Then why did you leave out Venezuela and even the countries you've mentioned don't claim to socialists and instead call themselves Democratic Socialists, which is nothing more then a play on words?

[CharacterAssassin]

Way back in the early 1960's, the 45 step plan for communists to take over America was read into congressional record.

https://rense.com/general32/americ.htm

None of the 45 goals had been achieved at that time, and the Americans of that time knew that the goals could only be achieved if the country was taken over. When you refer to millennials rejecting the GOP, I agree. Not only do I agree, but I raise you rejection of the Democrat party. Millenials are the manifestation of the 1963 plan to take over America, and they reject both parties as per goal #15 in that plan that I linked above.

Wow. Little early to be drinking, isn't it?