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Old quotes by Shreveport Republican Mike Johnson are surfacing now that he's Speaker of the House: “Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country, but we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.”[https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/] I'm wondering how many people over 50 could pass CNN's rule, which seems be, "No old quotes criticizing gays or gay marriage." Perhaps the network has forgotten that Obama was against gay marriage when he ran for president in 2008.

Old quotes by Shreveport Republican Mike Johnson are surfacing now that he's Speaker of the House: “Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country, but we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.”[https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/] I'm wondering how many people over 50 could pass CNN's rule, which seems be, "No old quotes criticizing gays or gay marriage." Perhaps the network has forgotten that Obama was against gay marriage when he ran for president in 2008.

In middle school, we used to chant, "Smear the queer!" I had no idea what it meant. I just chanted along. This was in Texarkana. We could watch the political ads from Shreveport. Shreveport politics is, um, entertaining.

In middle school, we used to chant, "Smear the queer!" I had no idea what it meant. I just chanted along. This was in Texarkana. We could watch the political ads from Shreveport. Shreveport politics is, um, entertaining.

Johnson's views on energy and climate are right up my ally: [https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-a-environment/4275625-johnson-brings-record-of-climate-skepticism-to-speakership/ Johnson brings pro-oil, climate-skeptical record to speakership]. After all, Biden is pro-oil too, he just wants the oil produced in Venezuela and Iran. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 20:33, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

Johnson's views on energy and climate are right up my ally: [https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-a-environment/4275625-johnson-brings-record-of-climate-skepticism-to-speakership/ Johnson brings pro-oil, climate-skeptical record to speakership]. After all, Biden is pro-oil too, he just wants the oil produced in Venezuela and Iran. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 20:33, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

:[EC] Left-wing ideology has always been changing, and "right-wing" is defined as whatever is to the right of the present strain of Leftism. Jeffersonian Republicans were classical liberals who supported ''laissez-faires'' free-market capitalism and free trade, yet comprised the left wing of politics because they opposed the classically conservative and "aristocratic" Federalists. Subsequent hardline Jacksonianism left-wing outlets, especially the Young America movement under [[George Nicholas Sanders]], supported free trade, the gold standard, the expansion of capitalism, and popular sovereignty. Of course, support for the gold standard changing from a left-wing position in antebellum years to right-wing in the postbellum era was due to changing circumstances: the central government was no longer dispensing gold alone, but greenbacks, and business interests once open to paper now supported a quick return to ''specie payments''.

:[EC] Left-wing ideology has always been changing, and "right-wing" is defined as whatever is to the right of the present strain of Leftism. Jeffersonian Republicans were classical liberals who supported ''laissez-faires'' free-market capitalism and free trade, yet comprised the left wing of politics because they opposed the classically conservative and "aristocratic" Federalists. Subsequent hardline Jacksonianism left-wing outlets, especially the Young America movement under [[George Nicholas Sanders]], supported free trade, the gold standard, the expansion of capitalism, and popular sovereignty. Of course, support for the gold standard changing from a left-wing position in antebellum years to right-wing in the postbellum era was due to changing circumstances: the central government was no longer dispensing gold alone, but greenbacks, and business interests once open to paper now supported a quick return to ''specie payments''.