"Biden failing will be the jolt the Democratic party needs to move to the left!" like I envy you that you think we have enough time to wait for ideological shifts
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I wonder what would have happened if liberal Boomers became literate in the existence of the Southern Strategy much earlier on in their lives, but maybe it's naive of me to think they haven't always known about it
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LBJ *said* "I've just lost the South for a generation" when he signed the Civil Rights Act
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It didn't help that after Watergate there was no narrative about how McGovern had been robbed, instead everyone just sighed and was like "Nixon played himself, McGovern would've lost anyway" Which is true, but still
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Anyway maybe that generation of young people always sucked more than advertised During the '72 election Nixon met with one of the student organizers and said "Is there any way I can get your vote" and the reply was "It depends on whether we're still in Vietnam in November"
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