Posted On: Wednesday - April 17th 2024 7:57AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Curmudgeonry Americans US Feral Government
I was thinking of this post a year and a half ago (that's when these pictures are dated), but it can now be an addendum to our recent post Trump v Bai Dien and 2020s v 1980s.
It hasn't been all that long. As with the general belief by most Americans that Federal elections were not going to change the whole country around or anything, I don't think it's been that long there since there wasn't nearly the hatred between one side and the other that there exists now. The ctrl-left has generally been more hateful than the right, but there was still room for fun not so long ago.
America's inexorable slide toward ruin was apparent to me just about 30 years back. However, it wasn't very immediate, so one could be strongly against a Clinton, Bush, even an Øb☭ma but still make light-hearted fun.
I remember these skits on Saturday Night Live. Maybe it's just my age at the time, but I didn't see this stuff as being written and performed out of hatred. The entertainment industry has been biased left as far back as I can remember, but they used to make fun of everyone they could do a good job on. You had the 3 Presidential candidates back in Summer '92, Bill, George, and Ross. I can remember the particular mannerism by which each was made fun of.
Going forward 12 years, I can remember a friend and I enjoying a cartoon-style video of Kerry v Bush, something about JibJab - that was the series or the artist, I don't know, but we could still laugh at the whole thing.
Only a few years ago, I still used this one:
It's different now. When the other side is blatantly cheating, taking a thousand Political Prisoners, working very obviously completely outside the law to persecute the other guy, there's no demand for that comedy anymore. Sure, we ridicule Dementia Joe, JoeTato, what have you, but that's just because ridicule is one of the only weapons the right has left.*
* Or so people imagine. Federalism, a national divorce, or a House of Representin' with 200 MTG's, well, that's different. It's extremely late though ...
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