Nixon's worst legacy

[Luna Tick]

He was a raving liberal lol
Or should I say a progressive?

Do you think he could run as a republican today?

Of course he couldn't. The Republican Party today is an extremist far right organization. Nixon was a moderate on some issues and a conservative on others. The Republicans have not been conservatives in a long time. They're extremist far right plutocrats. They just got their asses handed to them in an election. If they want to survive they're going to have to go moderate again. They need to come out with an Eisenhower or Nixon (minus the corruption) kind of candidate or they're going the way of the Whigs.

 

[Gawain]

Of course he couldn't. The Republican Party today is an extremist far right organization. Nixon was a moderate on some issues and a conservative on others. The Republicans have not been conservatives in a long time. They're extremist far right plutocrats. They just got their asses handed to them in an election. If they want to survive they're going to have to go moderate again. They need to come out with an Eisenhower or Nixon (minus the corruption) kind of candidate or they're going the way of the Whigs.

Got their asses handed to them? Who won the house? And i dont believe Obama won the election fair and square. He cheated. Besides hes not even eligible to run. The biggest cover up in US history.

 

[Graffias]

Nixon introduced anti-drug measures, but the so called War on Drugs began under Reagan's administration.

Richard Nixon’s message to Congress usually cited as the beginning of the “War on Drugs” does not in fact include the phrase “war on drugs” or “drug war.” It does mention “an effective war against heroin addiction.” It does use lots of military metaphor. It does embrace the supremely silly idea of replacing all opiate medicines with synthetics and ending world poppy production. But compared to contemporary drug-hawk rhetoric or anything that came out of the Drug Czar’s office under Bennett, McCaffrey, or Walters, it’s not at all a culture-war document: there’s no sense that drug abusers are social enemies and no attempt to hippie-bait the “drug culture.” I can’t figure out whether Nixon ever actually said “war on drugs.” But in any case, the impetus for anti-drug policies faded after Nixon left office. Ford cut the DEA budget. Carter wanted to decriminalize pot.

It was Ronald Reagan’s legislation and budgets – continued by his successors – that gave us the contemporary horror show of paramilitary drug policing, the creation of huge holes in the Fourth Amendment, and half a million dealers behind bars. And it was Nancy Reagan’s White House Conference for a Drug-Free America that organized the ideological thought police which made serious drug policy discussion impossible for most of the next two decades.

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Nixon really was a moderate in comparison to the two last Republican presidents. He wasn't an ideologue. History has been very unkind to him because of Watergate and Vietnam, but he really wasn't a bad president overall.

 

[Luna Tick]

Got their asses handed to them? Who won the house? And i dont believe Obama won the election fair and square. He cheated. Besides hes not even eligible to run. The biggest cover up in US history.

That's part of the extremism I'm talking about.

 

[Luna Tick]

Nixon introduced anti-drug measures, but the so called War on Drugs began under Reagan's administration.



Fun facts Dep’t: Nixon, Reagan, and the drug war « The Reality-Based Community


Nixon really was a moderate in comparison to the two last Republican presidents. He wasn't an ideologue. History has been very unkind to him because of Watergate and Vietnam, but he really wasn't a bad president overall.

And he didn't even start the Vietnam War. He inherited it.

 

[LiberalAvenger]

Nixon? Did anybody say paraquat, cough, cough?

I just noticed, I already did.:doh

 

[shlunka]

How does the saying go? "The only thing worse than drugs is the prohibition of drugs." Or something along those lines. Nixon was terrible, the war on drugs is as laughable as Bush's "war on terror".

 

[clownboy]

Nixon? Did anybody say paraquat, cough, cough?

I just noticed, I already did.:doh

I believe the paraquat spraying program was a Jimmy Carter thing as I recall. Happened in late 70s.