Sunday, April 07, 2019
One look at the 1974 coup
Previous item got me thinking again about the 1974 coup. What were the immediate results?
A 1976 document by Dept of Commerce included lots of info on demographics. One table showed 'Confidence in the people running selected institutions'.
I used Excel, clumsily as usual, to form a graph from the survey.
Within each category, the four bars are data from 73, 74, 75, and 76. Each bar is differential satisfaction, specifically "A great deal of satisfaction" minus "Hardly any".
Essentially the Watergate coup destroyed Nixon and displaced the people's confidence to EVERYTHING BUT Nixon. The only oddities are the press, which didn't seem to gain or lose, and Congress, which lost a bit. Everyone else either gained big in '74, or didn't lose as much as they would have lost by the trend.
It's tempting to compare this to Mueller's attempted Watergate, but I don't think the comparison works. The media's motivation is the same. Raw hatred and psychopathic omnicidal murder toward ordinary Americans. The motivation of politicians is the same. But Trump isn't Nixon, and the public attitude toward media and politicians started from a vastly different baseline this time. Most of us know now that the media is Satan and all politicians are grotesque monsters. Partisan bots are blindly loyal to their respective "sides", but they're not the majority or the norm.
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What was Nixon's crime? Trademark usurpation. He copied LBJ's dirty tricks. He copied LBJ's war and welfare policies, and added many leftist goals (EPA, negative income tax, affirmative action, abortion) that LBJ hadn't managed to achieve. He crashed our economy to serve Israel. All of those actions were SUPPOSED to be D actions, but Nixon did them while wearing the R label. He had to be obliterated.
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Essentially the Watergate coup destroyed Nixon and displaced the people's confidence to EVERYTHING BUT Nixon. The only oddities are the press, which didn't seem to gain or lose, and Congress, which lost a bit. Everyone else either gained big in '74, or didn't lose as much as they would have lost by the trend.
It's tempting to compare this to Mueller's attempted Watergate, but I don't think the comparison works. The media's motivation is the same. Raw hatred and psychopathic omnicidal murder toward ordinary Americans. The motivation of politicians is the same. But Trump isn't Nixon, and the public attitude toward media and politicians started from a vastly different baseline this time. Most of us know now that the media is Satan and all politicians are grotesque monsters. Partisan bots are blindly loyal to their respective "sides", but they're not the majority or the norm.
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What was Nixon's crime? Trademark usurpation. He copied LBJ's dirty tricks. He copied LBJ's war and welfare policies, and added many leftist goals (EPA, negative income tax, affirmative action, abortion) that LBJ hadn't managed to achieve. He crashed our economy to serve Israel. All of those actions were SUPPOSED to be D actions, but Nixon did them while wearing the R label. He had to be obliterated.
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