Posted on 04/06/2018 8:29:31 AM PDT by rktman
Much that is deeply wrong with our culture and politics today has its origins in the 1960s, but that can be exceedingly difficult to discern from the media's selective memory on that troubled period in our history. A proper understanding of modern politics requires an accurate view of history.
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Remember the yuppies vs. yippies thing? Thank God the sixties and seventies are ancient history.
Except for the simple fact that they run the Universities in this country.
It was not a pleasant time to be in uniform whether you were coming from VN or going to VN or any assignment you were ordered to take. Lots of derisive comments and actions. I remember it well. Extremely proud to have served during that period. Animosity for those that refused to serve? Nah. I get it but there’s certainly ZERO respect.
Decades after the last time that a mob of white rioters burned down some black neighborhood for being too successful some angry black persons who were foolish nitwits started burning down black neighborhoods to the detriment of all their neighbors and it has been going downhill for those communities ever since.
That there was capital flight from those communities in the aftermath was in fact entirely reasonable: if the locals are going to run amuck like that then investments become too risky. It isn’t the job of a would be investor to have to (if they elect to is different) assume added risk because the locals can’t keep the hoodlums in their midst in line no matter the race of the locals or the hoodlums.
Thank God the sixties and seventies are ancient history.”
THEY DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY
more like the Frankfurt School folks from the 20s and 30s ...
Lotta folks have always had “this place” confused w/Heaven except for few bad eggs of their choice. potentially at least! !
???
Truth is this ain’t Heaven, and this place is 180 out from H!
Upside-down, backwards, etc.
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Big media outfits are run by the same people who marched and rioted on campuses during the Vietnam era. They haven’t forgotten at all.
In the eleventh century the Oxford students, who were mostly upper class teens, were more concerned with rioting then studying. During their rampages they did a great deal of damage to the welfare of the business and agriculture class townspeople. The rulers, both church and state, were either afraid to interfere or sided with the students.
The townspeople of Oxford finally had enough of this nonsense and hanged a few students. Things then quieted down for a while.
Sometimes history can teach us how to handle current situations.
Kent State?
These were just people who were tired of having their businesses burned, their women raped and their sons murdered.
Not the military, not the local law enforcement. Just people.
The most dangerous force in the world when they get truly ticked.
The adolescent agitators of the 60’s moved the ball very far down the field towards our culture’s destruction.
No Doubt,
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The "pro-regressive" left fights with near-sighted dreams of perfecting society for a better world. They are incapable of seeing the end game or the result of their efforts. Their not even useful idiots, just idiots.
They think human nature can be reformed.
I think it was Dostoevsky that said something to the affect, "If man found himself living in a perfect world, Utopia, where all their needs and desires were provided for, he would be overcome with the need to BREAK something. Just to see what would happen".
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And a little help from their buddies in the Kremlin, too.
Hey, I resemble that remark, but unfortunately, a large number of the other participants of that time still live there (or at least, try to).
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