prolonging the Vietnam war by five years through sabotaging the negotiations while he was still just running for president
perfecting southern strategy campaigning and organizing all the neo-Confederates we're still dealing with as a new bloc of Republicans
founding the DEA and kicking off the war on drugs to jail and destabilize anti-war protesters and the black panthers,
all of the cheating he did during the 1972 campaign, which the Watergate break-in was only a part of
Cheering on the genocide of Bengalis by Pakistani generals because "muh Cold War allies!"

the roots of a ton of our modern problems go back to this paranoid alcoholic racist piece of shit

e; had to add in the Bengali genocide

[–] kingshrubb 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree but also he founded the EPA which is huge positive. Too many current politicians ignore environmental policy to our detriment.

[–] gAlienLifeform 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That was pretty much all Congress and a lot of great researchers and journalists throughout the 50s and 60s writing things like Silent Spring that got the general public to a place where they were demanding it. If Nixon hasn't done something to make it look like he'd dealt with the issue we would've likely ended up with something more powerful.

e; I should add though - the world did get a little bit better with Richard Nixon's EPA in it, just not as much better as it could and should have

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