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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
Ustwo, I asked for focus on the last 30 years not because I'm willfully ignorant of the prior 200. To judge an administration, you have to do it in the modern era. I think the internment camps were a travesty. I lived a mile away from one when I was a boy (it was a park by then - with a monument to those interned, I'm not 90).
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Perhaps I don't see how Ford is more modern than FDR. It would make more sense to compare war time presidents than it is to compare presidents based on the date. The 80's global climate was FAR FAR different than the 90's which is far different than the 2000's.
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Which is exactly why I ask about the modern era. Current rules are made due to current technologies and predicaments. Really, you would have to compare Bush jr to Bush sr for the most accurate match. The CIA and FBI have much more leeway to look through your library books, sample your DNA, and listen to your phone calls than they did under Bush sr.
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Or perhaps they didn't have enough leeway in the past since they were working under rules written before DNA matching and the communications boom.
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By the way, cell phones and the internet both existed in 1975. I'm sure many people figured they'd be widely used in the near future. My parents were telling me about the net when we lived in California and they worked at IBM way back in the 70's.
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Yes and our lawmakers in their infinite wisdom foresaw the technology boom of the 80's and 90's, correctly predicted the future, foresaw the fall of the USSR and the rise of global terrorists. All based on a handful of gadgets and a couple of early computers primitively linked.
Do you think we, as a people, are that much different than our grandparents?