This Is The One Goal I Wish Joe Biden Would Set And Achieve

Because this one factor lay behind almost all America’s problems today

Back in the late 1970’s, I remember listening to conservative commentary on AM talk radio in Mississippi. It may have been as late as 1980, but I distinctly remember hearing one such pundit call for all homosexuals to be sent to internment camps to keep them from spreading HIV to the general populace. It seemed logical to me at the time — after all, I was being raised as a strong conservative. The internet did not yet exist, so all the news we got was from “news shows” like this, or from the single television station the rabbit-ear antenna on our TV could receive (it’s so rural that even today, there’s no cable that reaches where our house was).

Even then, we were being told “you only get the real facts from us!” We got this message not just from pundits on the radio, but even more from televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, and Jim Bakker’s “PTL Club”. Every single broadcast was filled with conservative invective against liberals, abortion, homosexuals, “welfare queens”, evolution…you name it. If the liberals supported it, conservatives had to be against it.

The 1980’s saw the rise of Rush Limbaugh who for twenty years was the single most influential conservative…