“it was American society at large that was weakened by our own inner turmoil and our own confusion about what we stood for as a nation.”
The turmoil and confusion were created whole cloth by the lying media, both “news” and entertainment.
“It’s jailing and or killing your political rivals with a one party state.”
Thank God the foundations of our country are strong enough so that, as imperfect as our government has been — it never was to the extent of authoritarian regimes in USSR, China, and the kind we were battling against in Southeast Asia.
“Uncontrolled history just like today.”
We are in the 50 year anniversary of 1968 and I say: things were crazier back then! I did not live through the 60s, but looking back on them helps me put today in perspective. “We shall overcome.” And at least we’re not in the 1860s: when our nation was embroiled in literal CIVIL WAR!
“The turmoil and confusion were created whole cloth by the lying media, both “news” and entertainment.”
dsc: And we can’t underestimate the influence of liberal, Marxist academia on college campuses, the watering down of theology in our churches, and the liberalization of the Catholic Church via Vatican II council.
“The turmoil and confusion were created whole cloth by the lying media, both “news” and entertainment.”
It was much easier for dominant liberalism to control the national debate back when CBS, NBC and ABC were it as far as national news broadcasters.
David Brinkley was the only anchor back then who wasn’t hostile to the Right and he had to share the show with Chet Huntley who labelled Goldwater crazy. Cronkite was a left-progressive who hid it well behind his avuncular demeanor.
And in the newsprint world the NY Times and the Washington Post reliably gave us all the news that conventional liberalism wanted to hear.
If everyone remembers there was quite a ruckus on this site when McMasters fired a number of well known in influential analysts and advisors noted for strong opposition to Islamic Jihadist factions.
At the time I said that the real quandary in this was that here you have McMasters coming into his own as NSC head, with a reputation founded on his ‘97 book and combat leadership, and as head of the NSC he is pushing out certain voices that champion resistance to islamic jihad.
In “Dereliction...” he points how how Johnson, confused by his limited objective of socialistic domestic policy, is hampered by not getting the full and varied insight of all the JCS.
I asked, doesn’t it appear he is doing to Trump what Maxwell did in his book where he limited the JSC access to allow McNamara to be the sole director of military policy?