“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.
“And we can’t underestimate the influence of liberal, Marxist academia on college campuses”
Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” is a good source on that. Actually, the media were corrupt long before academia collapsed.
“the watering down of theology in our churches, and the liberalization of the Catholic Church via Vatican II council.”
And the KGB’s infiltration of the seminaries.