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Confessions of a Republican (1964)
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BreezyLimbo
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Someone should edit this video and add Trump for every goldwater.
It's the same damn thing.
It's the same damn thing.
HUELEN10
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Fuck... I saw the whole thing and, damn...
If Bernie doesn't win and it is Clinton V Trump, and I just don't vote, it does show I don't care who wins. But I DO care who wins, and if that is the scenario, I'd want Trump to win. But voting for Trump? Ugh... I mean, I've effectively not voted before. But for this election I do care who wins. Fuck. There is wisdom in old videos like these.
If Bernie doesn't win and it is Clinton V Trump, and I just don't vote, it does show I don't care who wins. But I DO care who wins, and if that is the scenario, I'd want Trump to win. But voting for Trump? Ugh... I mean, I've effectively not voted before. But for this election I do care who wins. Fuck. There is wisdom in old videos like these.
SecretMoblin
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powerful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hcpedQmOyo
The KKK one is pretty effective for being so short. I can't imagine this one flying in this day and age simply because of the quote.
The KKK one is pretty effective for being so short. I can't imagine this one flying in this day and age simply because of the quote.
Damn, that's eerily close to this election. Especially at the end when he mentioned odd groups like the KKK endorsing his candidate and what that means about the party.
You could always just write-in Carson.
You could always just write-in Carson.
torta_smasher
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This video is so good and sooo relevant. It really resonated with me
FriedConsole
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Johnson was good at politics. Doesn't beat the effectiveness and crassness of the Daisy ad tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
Bobby Roberts
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I looked up the actor (because I figured there's no way he wasn't an actor) and it turns out:
He's "Kent Wallace" from Chappelle's Show's Frontline sketches.
(He was also a Republican, who did the ad because he thought Goldwater was a real piece of shit.)
He's "Kent Wallace" from Chappelle's Show's Frontline sketches.
(He was also a Republican, who did the ad because he thought Goldwater was a real piece of shit.)
The Medicare one is a good one as well, the graphic of a senator flying across the country to block legislation could apply to Cruz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shGIn6kikcM
The DNC needs to hire Jeff Goldblum to narrate a series of these
BreezyLimbo
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Battersea Power Station
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This is why I don't buy that whole "the GOP will cease to exist!" rhetoric surrounding Trump. They're doing just fine as a party and will continue to do so, with or without a controversy at the convention. All of this has happened before, and whatnot.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
I looked up the actor (because I figured there's no way he wasn't an actor) and it turns out:
He's "Kent Wallace" from Chappelle's Show's Frontline sketches.
(He was also a Republican, who did the ad because he thought Goldwater was a real piece of shit.)
Wow! I knew I recognized him in that last part. Good thing Clayton Bigsby isn't running...
It would have to be greatly changed to play today. Attention spans aren't long enough for that ad, good as it was. Kind of reminded me of the sort of thing an aspiring actor might do as a monologue on audition night for some reason.
Does seem strangely prescient with the discussion of the "Weirdo groups" and the KKK endorsements. The more things change, the more they stay the same?
I love how he breaks out a smoke in the middle.
I also miss the time when people had the attention span for something like this.
Heh. http://youtu.be/DyP_hWvqchU #WhichGoldwater
I also miss the time when people had the attention span for something like this.
Heh. http://youtu.be/DyP_hWvqchU #WhichGoldwater
There weren't nearly as many minorities in the 60's.
I wouldn't be so quick to apply the path that happened in the 60's to the 2010's.
AstroNut325
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That is weirdly applicable to the year 2016! W...T...F!
Yeah, demographic changes are key. We have around 120 million more people of voting age in America today than in 1964 and a good number of those aren't white males. Those 2 facts alone should make the GOP cringe at their future if they stay the course.
So if there is ever any progress on making voting mandatory and/or more accessible, it's basically game over to the current form of the GOP. It's why over the past few years we've seen an explosion of tactics to depress turnout (voter ID requirements, fewer voting hours, fewer registering options, reducing early voting, and also making the government as nonfunctional as possible). It's worked for them pretty well in the last couple midterms but that strategy won't last forever. Your old, Fox News type of conservative folks tend to die at a faster clip than the younger, more liberal crowd after all...
Also the moment Texas starts trending purple will be the wake-up call of wake-up calls, though we're still at least a decade out from that tantalizing scenario (probably another Realignment happens before we reach that point but we'll see).
copelandmaster
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The usual staples: unflattering shots of the perp, shocking - but not really grusome - imagery, loads of panning shots, etc. Yet not overly obnoxious.
Pretty damn memorable ending to all of them: "The stakes are too high for you to stay home."
I can't believe all this crazy shit is happening right now (again, apparently???). What do the next 8-9 months have in store?
Pretty damn memorable ending to all of them: "The stakes are too high for you to stay home."
I can't believe all this crazy shit is happening right now (again, apparently???). What do the next 8-9 months have in store?
Give me your vote. If that happens vote for Hillary please. I'll gift you a "I <3 Apple" shirt or something.
Signed: Everyone with a functioning brain
I've heard of the parallels drawn between Goldwater and Drumpf, but this is just freaky. Someone needs to do a modern version of this, I think it could work really well.
You know, stories on voter suppression efforts get floated out there all the time, but my state (Florida) has early voting for a full 2 weeks before election day, going from 9am-7pm every day, including Sunday, so I thought perhaps we were an outlier. Maybe it's other states that are unduly restrictive?
But then I looked it up: http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/absentee-and-early-voting.aspx
Nearly 75% of the country offers some combination of early voting and no-excuse required absentee balloting. And the states that do not offer early voting are not concentrated in the old confederacy: it's a pretty even split between southern, mid-Atlantic, and New England, so it's not as though minority populations are disadvantaged on that metric.
The ID requirement is a separate issue and it appears the main point of contention is whether a state requiring a photo ID places too high a burden on the voter. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me on the face of it, but I'm assuming it has a disparate effect on minority populations (?). Here's a rundown of the voter ID laws state-by-state for those interested:
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx
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