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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by vkou on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:56AM (#49574952)
> because they cling to unpopular positions on cultural issues.

The Republican propaganda machine will always be ready to make any cultural issue the dems hold 'unpopular'. They turn anything and everything into a culture war, and if nothing exists, they are more than happy to manufacture it.

Observe how they turned their own vaccine into a cultural issue.

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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by 0xDEAFBEAD on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:14AM (#49575428)
Many people, including me, not all of us Republicans, have observed that the Dems were much saner before 2010 or so.
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by otterley on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:21AM (#49575850)
What happened around 2010 that might have precipitated whatever changes you’re thinking of?
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by 0xDEAFBEAD on Saturday September 05, 2026 @09:01AM (#49576123)
Tumblr? Cultural shifts from social media started to gather momentum roughly around that time.
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by otterley on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:07AM (#49576649)
There was a lot for people to be angry about, particularly the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Bush administration got us into as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, combined with the 2008 financial crisis and Wall Street public bailout that culminated in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by 0xDEAFBEAD on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:48AM (#49584211)
None of those events were the focus of the cultural shifts I'm referring to.
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by otterley on Monday September 07, 2026 @07:24AM (#49596994)
Maybe you should be more explicit about what you think really happened.
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