The husband is a compulsive video taper/DVDer of world events and big election events. Has been for a long time- he still has the Bush-Ferraro VP debate on beta tape buried in a box in our storeroom. And a while back, we were dubbing the VHS tapes over to DVD in order to shrink down space needed and put everything into a more stable storage medium.
And despite the distortion of 'Our Christian values were always strong and Obama is destroying the country by this amazing lunge toward socialism' rhetoric, it's interesting to go back and look at how much more of a liberal country we were during the Reagan-Bush Sr. years than we are now. Pull up the election night reel from 1992, and while no one was talking about gay rights at the time, it was an era when the Repblicans were constantly lining up behind cap and trade as the free market solution to pollution issues instead of something that was a much more straightforward tax. Voters were reaffirming a woman's right to control her own reproductive process on state ballot initiatives. All kind of ideas that were residuals of the Reagan years that were considered to be mainstream or slightly right-leaning that are now considered to be dangerously socialist.
And on a lighter note, a number of networks were using red as the color for Democrats and blue as the Republicans on the big national maps.
I am so glad we've get primary source material at the house because in the era of the 24 hour horribly biased news cycle, no one these days is ever going to give an honest assessment of what the 'good old days' were like as they were happening.
And despite the distortion of 'Our Christian values were always strong and Obama is destroying the country by this amazing lunge toward socialism' rhetoric, it's interesting to go back and look at how much more of a liberal country we were during the Reagan-Bush Sr. years than we are now. Pull up the election night reel from 1992, and while no one was talking about gay rights at the time, it was an era when the Repblicans were constantly lining up behind cap and trade as the free market solution to pollution issues instead of something that was a much more straightforward tax. Voters were reaffirming a woman's right to control her own reproductive process on state ballot initiatives. All kind of ideas that were residuals of the Reagan years that were considered to be mainstream or slightly right-leaning that are now considered to be dangerously socialist.
And on a lighter note, a number of networks were using red as the color for Democrats and blue as the Republicans on the big national maps.
I am so glad we've get primary source material at the house because in the era of the 24 hour horribly biased news cycle, no one these days is ever going to give an honest assessment of what the 'good old days' were like as they were happening.
