@KeithDJohnson It’s important to remember that this was not instigated by billionaires. Low-cost public universities were one of the first targets of the anti-tax movement in California in the 1960s—the University of California’s longstanding state support, which allowed all students to attend tuition-free, was one of the first victims of Governor #Reagan. The reactionary right of the time included many of the rich, especially the Southern California apartment owners represented by #HowardJarvis, along with the Birchers, McCarthyites, and others who supported #Goldwater. However, the majority of rental properties were owned by middle class people, from lower to upper, trying to move up and provide for their retirement, just like the main street small businessman you’re talking about. Almost every one of those people were hard right by 1966, when Reagan first ran. They had already repealed the #RumfordFairHousingAct and collaborated with their business peers to oppose every liberal initiative.
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![Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem.
Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe that are acting In the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
-Republican Barry Goldwater](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/399/724/420/857/989/original/e72880964ae9d4b6.jpeg "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem.
Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe that are acting In the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
-Republican Barry Goldwater")
Finally tho people like @BandyXLee1 have been warning US since 2016
The #DutyToWarn outweighs the #Goldwater Rule
Trump is a Malignant Narcissist & Sociopath who is a
Clear & Present DANGER to US & the world
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/14/1538440/-Donald-J-Trump-is-a-Pathological-Narcissist
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-goldwater-dementia_n_6716c72be4b011ffe51780f3
#GoldwaterRule
'The Death Trap' Dangerous Jet #CombatTraining Dramatically Increases Over #TohonoOodham Nation
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 17, 2024
SELLS, Arizona -- "The #USMilitary has dramatically increased its dangerous jet combat fighting over the heart of the Tohono O'odham Nation, with combat jets, a private #corporation and a plane labeled as "the death trap," due to safety violations.
"Tohono O'odham who live below say the #SonicBlasts are breaking the plaster in their traditional homes. Dangerous flares endanger all life below, including the #EndangeredSpecies of #SonoranPronghorn and more. With the risk of deadly crashes, Tohono O'odham are at risk below, including those in the community of #Pisinemo this week.
"The U.S. Air Force now plans to expand its dangerous use of the #airspace over Tohono O'odham, #Apache and #Yaqui communities in #Arizona. #SacredPlaces including #BaboquivariPeak on the Tohono O'odham Nation are among those at risk.
"The enormous #Goldwater#ange -- 1.9 million acres in the #SonoranDesert west of the Tohono O'odham Nation -- was set aside for U.S. military training, yet the military is consistently using Tohono O'odham Nation airspace.
The #USAirForce wants to authorize more #supersonic blasts training at lower altitudes. The dangerous expansion includes airspace over #NativeAmericanNations, and scenic regions of Arizona and western #NewMexico."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-death-trap-dangerous-jet-combat.html
@DemocracyMattersALot
That was the Dem response 60 years ago when the #GOP ran #Goldwater. The GOP slogan was "In your heart you know he's right" and the Dems responded "In your guts you know he's nuts".
Re-reading Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" for about the fifth time.
This edition has an excellent, long forward by Sean Wilentz (adds context, and brings it up to date with what came after the author's death).
Written in the 1960s, this book explains SO MUCH about what is happening NOW!
Audiobook available to check-out for free!
Psychiatrists are restricted by the #Goldwater Rule, however. I assume that isn't binding on psychologists, who are not medical doctors.
https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/the-goldwater-rule
In '64, with a degree in psychology almost completed, 3 yrs of mental health clinic experience, I thought #Goldwater was dangerous. Turns out, I wasn't alone. The APA decided, though, it's unethical to diagnose a patient you haven't personally evaluated. This rule is restricting professionals now.
I have a new favourite podcast for this month. It's good to see psychiatrists and psychologists being useful and entertaining for once.
https://www.iheart.com/pod.../269-shrinking-trump-175213669/
It's worth listening to episode 1 first; there's a good discussion of the ethics of public diagnoses in a post Goldwater Rule age.
"...as a political force, the #Libertarian Party of the US has been mostly a holding pen for #Goldwater-era ideologues who ignored most of Goldwaters own views once you got past bombing people, and a more recent backwater of ex-#GOP refugees who are of the ‘I got mine, screw you’ economic school and their kin. They are most of the time, quite laughable.
Until now, as they did the laughing (and booing), loudly, in the face of #Trump..."
https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/a-rare-case-of-libertarianism-doing-the-right-thing/
I would love to hear from #doctors about the #Goldwater Rule, specifically if and when it should be broken. Perhaps now?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cognitive-decline-trump-brags-putting-125138917.html
https://www.politicon.com/psychotherapist-john-gartner-on-jen-rubins-green-room/
@futurebird. I will follow the lead of #JohnGartner, brave #psychologist and former professor at #JohnsHopkins, and piggyback on your excellent observation that his words are "anti-matter," and call this verbal drivel/poison "probable dementia." Actually, because I'm not a medical doctor and can't violate the #Goldwater rule and also have had a lot, too much, experience with people with dementia, I'll call it "dementia."
Mechanic Architect of the Radical Right
“The South is the cradle of Modern #Conservatism
This, too, may come as a surprise, so entrenched is the origin myth of the far-westerners Barry #Goldwater, Richard #Nixon, and Ronald #Reagan as leaders of a #SunBelt realignment and forerunners of today’s polarizing #GOP. But each of those politicians had his own “southern strategy,” playing to white backlash against the #CivilRights revolution—“hunting where the ducks are,” as Goldwater explained—though it was encrypted in the states’-rights ideology that has been vital to southern #politics”
#RadicalRight #rightwing #racism
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-architect-of-the-radical-right/528672/
This week on #UnsungHistory, with guest Kevin M. Kruse, we look at the Southern Strategy, the systematic and well-documented approach the Republican Party used win over white voters in the South, leading to the realignment of the two political parties over several decades.
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"It chose the latter, and when most successfully executed, a race-based strategy was the foundation of many of the Republican Party's biggest victories, from Nixon to Trump.”
~ Ibid.
#Republicans #race #Goldwater #Nixon #Trump #SouthernStrategy #WhiteGrievancePolitics
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"Race has defined the modern Republican Party. After Goldwater carried only Southern states and received a record low of 7% of the black vote, the party faced a basic choice: do what was necessary to appeal to more white voters, or build a party to win with white voters."
~ Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump (New York: Knopf, 2020,), p. 31
#Republicans #race #Goldwater #SouthernStrategy #WhiteGrievancePolitics
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