This set off a string of political and cultural events that led the Democrat party to be taken over by collectivists who hate America, and got us to the dangerous juncture at which we find ourselves today.
Vietnam War Ping.
Lesson Learned.
If the party you have sympathy for, is not willing to fight effectively (i.e. to the death) for itself; then they don’t deserve our sacrifice.
Supposedly said by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
One rebuttal to the shutdown the GOPES (gop Elite Snobs) running things could have been using when the demo-coms the DC’s, (they’ill never call the democrats either, they can’t even call them socialist) began propagandizing dire results for a government shutdown.
It would have been a perfect time to remind Americans how under the Democrats Viet Nam which became a defacto ward of the US under communist threat. from North Viet Nam. We supported their excursion into a democratic form of government. That was abandoned after a costly victory known as the TET offensive was portayed as a defeat by the the media and our support came to an ignominious end. Defunded by the very same democrats.responding to the academic socialist/ communists who today are now in control of that political party. Where hundreds of thousands of our supporters there died and 58,000 American lives were wasted because of our lack of political resolve..