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    Reagan fired the air traffic controllers without bothering to think that through, and aviation in the USA is still suffering the after-effects of that as the workers that were trained up to fill those gaps now all retire at the same time. I don’t doubt the Republicans would make the same mistake twice, especially given that these ones are far stupider than Reagan’s people.

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      Probably harder to fill this time. It’s a hell of a lot easier to be an ICE scab than an ATC scab.

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      I don’t doubt the Republicans would make the same mistake twice,

      Well folks did elect Trump twice… so there is that.

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        I still don’t believe that trump won against Harris. So imo they didn’t vote for hin twice.

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          I mean I think it was valid Trump was pretty consistent in his votes over all three elections. The Dems had a spike during Biden and a crash during Haris. The truth is the left just couldn’t be bothered to keep him out a second time.

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            ‘The left’ liberals didn’t vote for Harris. I mean the left didn’t either, but the reason Harris lost was because of standard ol liberals choosing not to vote for brown George w bush.

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              From what I saw, through the stuff on the internet, the White-supremacists were solidly Trump, the male-supremacists were solidly Trump, AND Trump used a voter-deregistration law, through some local Republicans, to remove Democrats from voting-rolls, in key swing-states.

              AND many Democrats refused to vote.

              When all 4 of those come together, then you have the real basis for the result that happened.

              sigh … yet-again, journalism got disappeared off the internet, in order to prevent any accountability or leverage-causing-necessary-change…

              Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google can find the journalism I’d read about that voter-deregistration having already been used as a partisan weapon, with the obvious consequence that it can be used again to immense effect, in 2026 & 2028.

              Welcome to the for-profit-only “reality” we live-in…

              ( I’m going to be saving offline-copies of all such journalism, from now on, because of this bullshit.

              Without knowing history, it isn’t possible to be competent to avoid re-enacting it!

              This ISN’T it, but it gives some similar information: https://newrepublic.com/article/199247/transcript-trump-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms )

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      The airline industry is much bigger now. More flights happening.

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      Republicans (and people in general, TBH) don’t make the same mistake twice.

      They make it 6 or 7 times, at least.

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      And especially since the goal of our enemies is to make America devolve into chaos, and the collapse of the airline industry would go a long ways in accomplishing that objective.

      And their treasonous MAGA lackeys are happy to help.

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        It’s actually not the boomers who elected Reagan. It was their parents and the generation that immediately followed them. Boomers, that is the actual baby boom generation (born 1946 to 1955), voted overwhelmingly against Reagan.

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          I disagree.
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

          In 1980, it was kinda close, 45v44 (18-21yo) and 44v44 (22-29yo), but I wouldn’t say they were “overwhelmingly against”. By 1984 they seemed quite in favor of him. They had help, no doubt, but they were not largely against; marginally against at most.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election

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            This is an incomplete picture. Because it’s from exit polls it only accounts for those who actually voted. It doesn’t take in to account at all those who abstained. And it doesn’t list by generation just by 10-year increments. And generations don’t fall into neat 10-year increments. At that point in time boomers were anywhere from 20 to 35.

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              It doesn’t take in to account at all those who abstained.

              Abstained? You mean helped Reagan win? How’d that strategy work out?

              And it doesn’t list by generation just by 10-year increments.

              False. Behold, arithmetic!

              1980 election
              Age (DOB) Range
              18-21 (1962-1959) =3
              22-29 (1958-1951) =7
              30-44 (1950-1936) =14
              45-59 (1935-1921) =14
              60+ (1920-past)

              1984 election
              Age (DOB) Range
              18-24 (1966-1960) =6
              25-29 (1959-1955) =4
              30-49 (1954-1935) =19
              50-64 (1934-1920) =14
              65+ (1919-past)

              What they lack is a neat cutoff at 1945.

              And generations don’t fall into neat 10-year increments.

              No one is doing that.

              Wikipedia:

              The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th-century baby boom that followed the end of World War II.

              More arithmetic! 1964-1946=18

              At that point in time boomers were anywhere from 20 to 35.

              1945-1960. Sure. Seems a breath away from a neat ten year increment, but sure.

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          Doesn’t stop them from sucking his cadaverific cock nowadays though, frankly if they had come out swinging against him more aggressively there wouldn’t have been nearly as many issues nowadays.

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          My parents were boomers and they (and all their boomer friends) fucking hated Ronnie Raygun. It definitely was not all boomers.

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            The most-important 2 books on understanding US politics, is Woodard’s “American Nations”, on the 11 nations inhabiting North America, & how they are stable, once instantiated,

            & Thom Hartmann’s “Screwed”, on what real national-prosperity is ( I’ve only read the beginning of that, & it’s the 1st-time I’ve understood what’s wrong with normal “economics”, as presented by everybody else ).

            IF one looks carefully, as Woodard did, one can see that the votes follow specific counties that are culturally-aligned, in these 11 nations.

            It isn’t “all boomers”, rather, it is in the Tidewater region, votes went this-way, in the New York region, votes went that way, in Yankeedom, they went this other way, etc…

            The book “The Big Sort” is on how polarization is self-creating the ultimate only-political-monocultures US of A.

            That, of course, is going to make the US’s Civil War Part2 be … more territorial in its ideological-basis, … ( & that has implications, too ), but … it’s still down to regional-cultures defining/controlling the US’s fate.

            Woodard’s book is sooo important, that I wouldn’t consider moving anywhere in North America without seeing which culture was ruling that county, now.

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