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I speculate it started in the 1950s.

There was a move to make Business about numbers over People, per my Grandpa's "Back In My Day" speeches he used to give me. He blamed the MBA (no offense to MBAs) for encouraging money-over-people thinking.

This then leads to GOP appearing to value winning political power for itself over building a healthy society, in my view.



The GOP voters (and maybe even the politicians!) have a different view of what a healthy society requires. Supposedly keeping womens' sports genetically pure, punishing pro-Palestinian speech, and deporting lots of people is very important for a healthy society, and justifies their behavior.


Probably around the time your Gradpa started paying attention (post ww2). The 1920s and the great depression were hardly non-weird times.


Ya possibly!

He and rest of my family of that era were deeply impacted by racism, ideological weirdness as you put it. Immigrants, refugees.

Makes me sick seeing what the GOP and their racist base are doing today. Wishing I had the balls to join in some legal actions against those turkeys.




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