I was a punk rocker thru and thru during the earliest years 1975 - 1978 and I was one of those who hated the hippies and leftists, those that “mean well” - the beginning of PC. As in, “if you don’t like the fact that Rasheed stole your skateboard shouldn’t the community all sit down like a tribe and decide what the appropriate action to take is?” And it always resulted in a hug when you wanted them to be punished? I’ve heard all the leftist lies from forever and they’re just lies. Everyone from Ronald Reagan to General Petraeus is to me the type of reactionary that in the young is defined as “punk” - by that I mean plain American, no frills, no metrosexuality, no she/him = “shim” - just plain American. My family knows me as someone who, coming from a Big Ten University town had it all in the bag, including great grades - but I never got over those early years, never gave in to the leftists - so I’m labeled a reactionary, as in reacting against the University drivel and leftism here in the center of the country’s poop sandwich Madison, WI. This town has any number of faculty signing that goddamn on-line support letter for Bill Ayers. Anyone want to know why the son of a McCarthy Republican in this blue hellhole is a reactionary? My old man moved here from the South after WWII to get away from the Democrats and their segragated foolishness - if we only went for “content of character” over “great society” we would have made America greater than it already is. If we ONLY went for content of character on every issue instead of running to judges and lawyers for freebies, we would be greater still.
Good one.
Well said.