It’s important to note what the Federal government did, and didn’t do, in regards to the drinking age. They didn’t raise the legal drinking age, the Federal government has no such power to to that. The 21st amendment leaves states free to set their own alcohol laws.
▪️What the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984 did was to withhold 10% of a state’s highway funds (8% after 2012) if they didn’t prohibit those under 21 from “purchasing or publicly possessing alcoholic beverages.”
https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/the-1984-national-minimum-drinking-age-act
▪️Which basically bullied every state into writing such laws, although states still vary in their “drinking age” laws. Some states don’t prohibit minors from consuming alcohol in private or with family members, or in certain settings, others have a blanket ban and a real “drinking age” of 21.
▪️The layman might confuse these terms and concepts, but this was written by a distinguished lawyer, so he knows the difference (or should know).
▪️Interestingly, most states used to have a drinking age of 21. During the 1960’s with the push to lower voting to 18 (“old enough to fight, old enough to vote”) this changed. Since 18 was now considered an adult, this logically applied to other areas like cigarettes and alcohol, and states lowered the age.
▪️It’s interesting now that 21 is once again being used as the adult age in areas like cigarettes, alcohol, guns, but not for voting (or for the draft).
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
