# When Did We Get So Hateful? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 12, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-we-get-so-hateful/808664 "2018-02-12T02:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-we-get-so-hateful/808664/35 "2018-02-12T16:51:23Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Rush didn’t plant the seed - that the media was biased to the left was screamingly obvious. You’ve made your point, such as it is. Yes, Fox etc. did recognize that there was a large market for people who want to be reassured more than informed. But that isn’t really the good thing you portray it to be, now is it? > [@](#): > > Because the budget was not balanced until after the GOP took over Congress, Clinton’s first act upon becoming President was an attempt to increase the deficit, Clinton’s submitted budgets had $200 billion deficits as far as the eye could see, and it takes a determined effort to ignore the GOP’s fulfillment of balancing the budget which they made in the Contract With America and Clinton’s efforts to stop it, and then give the credit to the Democrat who fought it instead of the GOP who brought it about. All of that, including the Fed chairman cautioning against “irrational exuberance”, stemmed from the 1993 Budget Act, didn’t it? Now tell us how many Republicans voted for it. Here, I’ll save you the trouble: 0. Alternative facts, your people call them. > [@](#): > > who want ignorance to win, providing it’s liberal ignorance. :rolleyes: You \*could \*choose to be part of the solution. You always have that option. Even now. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-we-get-so-hateful/808664)._