Posted on 04/17/2015 7:17:09 AM PDT by all the best
Hillary Clinton has always been at the head of her class. That includes being among the leading edge of the 80-million strong baby boom generation that first started arriving in 1946-1947.
She did everything they did: Got out for Barry Goldwater in high school; got upwardly mobile to Wellesley and social liberation during college; got “Clean for Gene” and manned the anti-war barricades in the late 1960s; got to Washington to uplift the world in the 1970s; got down to the pursuit of power and position in the 1980s; joined the ruling class in the 1990’s; and has helped make a stupendous mess of things ever since.
The baby boom generation which started with so much promise when it came of age in the 1960s has ended up a colossal failure. It has turned America into a bloody imperial hegemon aboard and a bankrupt Spy State at home where financialization and the 1% thrive, half the populations lives off the state and real main street prosperity has virtually disappeared from the land.
Quite a deplorable legacy, that. And all the while Hillary has been our class president. God help the world if she becomes our nation’s President. She has betrayed all that was right about the baby boomers in the 1960s; and has embraced all the wrong they did during their subsequent years in power.
It starts during our defining moment when peace finally had a chance in the spring of 1968. We drove a sitting President from office, and, at that, one whose megalomaniacal will-to-power was terrifying.
We called bull on the cold war hysteria that had once put us under our desks at school and now claimed that peasants in far off rice paddies threatened our security.
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Thank you for pointing that out!
She has failed at everything. Which makes her a good apparachnik.
The signal is, “two if by van, one if by broom.”
The HARP H would be perfect for Hillary’s campaign. It’s very much an “up yours” H.
“two if by van, one if by broom.”
Good one. I think the alliteration sounds better with
“one if by van, two if by broom”
Stockman here presents a peacenik rant, implying that if Reagan had been submissive rather than forceful, then the world would be all rainbows and unicorns by now. He credits Warren Harding with unwinding the military machine of the First World War, and complains that neither Reagan nor the Clintons took that route after the Cold War had been won. (He even claims that the Cold War had been won by the time Reagan took office, and he should have been more focused on standing down than standing up.) He criticizes the Clintons for being a hawks, pawns of the Pentagon, instead of bringing peace and love to the world.
Bill Clinton tried to bring peace and love to the world by not aggressively going after Bin Laden. How did that work out?
Stockman should take a long vacation trip to the ex-Soviet block countries and ask those people if their life is better after departure of the Soviet Union.
Those countries would still be Soviet satellite states with Stockman’s formula for transfer of defense money to the Hubert Humphrey “Let’s give it to the welfare state” and “Great Society” giveaway started by Lyndon Johnson.
Can you imagine this country today if the likes of McCarthy and McGovern had won the Presidency?
Stockman has his buried deep, deep somewhere.
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