Avocado appliances and wood paneling. Burn it.
And shag carpet....
Posted on 04/13/2018 9:10:11 PM PDT by vannrox
Avocado appliances and wood paneling. Burn it.
And shag carpet....
I have siblings 9 years older than me. As a kid in the late 60’s I was more exposed to their age range movies/music/attitudes than stuff suitable for my age.
There were some f’d up movies back then. The confusion of trying to understand the world through through warped media was unsettling to say the least.
The kids today have it even worse.
Two heart-breaking stories from baseball in the 60’s: Denny McLain and the 1967 Red Sox.
The boomer generation drank the soviet subversion koolaid by the gallon. Couple that with feminism-the pill-abortion etc. and it was a death sentence for western civilization.
Since the 60’s, all Westerners—even the poorest—live like royalty. With devices and amenities and opportunities undreamed by kings in centuries past. But people are not happy with what they have. They are envious of those with “more” (whatever that means to them), squander the treasures they have in their hands and cry poverty, and spurn the people closest to them.
It is not adversity that besets us with our troubles. But the plenty we have that so many take utterly for granted.
Good article on the differences between classic liberalism (libertarianism) and today’s Leftist liberalism. I also liked how he traced it back to the problem of LBJ and the “Best and Brightest” thinking that they were so smart that they could singlehandedly cure all of society’s problems. It is the perennial Leftist problem of ego and pride. They like to think that they are like gods with unlimited wisdom, incorruptible character, and unlimited resources. They have proven themselves wrong on all three of those aspects.
Well, I’m keeping “orange Mary Ann!” :-D
I wasn't there, no one saw me, you cannot prove a thing!
Thar's a whole crib o' corn right thar to be shucked!
At least most of the music was good .
Current version is the "Antifarts" which are pretty much the same thing minus the quirky and sometimes appealing appearance of the ladies. Must include the love of communism.
Bullshit on Vietnam. We could have won if the administrations (LBJ and Nixon) had listened to the military leaders on the ground, esp. at the Provincial level. They knew where the enemy was, esp. the Ho Chi Minh Trail and how it could be taken out or just taken to the point that Hanoi could no longer send men and supplies down it with limited impunity.
We should have destroyed the port of Haiphong in the beginning, plugged up the Mu Gia Pass and then bombed (with some good stuff) the HCMT while putting a couple divisions across it. Every military ground veteran who was out there said it could be done.
Our strategies after Tet also greatly improved as did the So. Vietnamese military. Fighting the NVA with AK 47s and PRGs and all the artillery they wanted, with M1’s and some M14’s was not a winning strategy for the ARVN.
The same with poorly armored APCs (Battle of Ap Bac, early on), almost no 155’s to reply against NVN best in the world Soviet Bloc artillery.
No real efforts to take out Hanoi and Red China’s opium/heroin production (there is more to that than you know).
Congress crippled our aid efforts to the Cambodians, deliberately, and many Cambodian soldiers and their families were killed (often by massacres) when it need not have happened). I was there for a week and saw a local militia whose arms looked like a WW I museum collection.
The Cambodian Air Force was a few T-28s, and I counted about 15 Mig 15’s on the runway at Ponchentong Airport that couldn’t fly because they had no spare parts to maintain them. Their jet air force consisted of two French Fougrois Magister trainers that flew over us.
As for the “Great Society”, it was a liberal failure at its creation and LBJ should have known better than to try to bribe societal reform.
Also, many of our Republicans failed to, as usual, take on the Democrats and make decent arguments for their positions, and this failure went right up to the White House and NSC (again, I was there as a journalist and had friends in high places).
We always seems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and the Democrats since the 1980’s have made that their national policy. I call it treason.
I agree, the immigration changes starting with that Act is a cancer that is still eating away at the victim today, with little chance for recovery.
Giving women the vote caused massive socialist increase in govt programs and interference in everyday life.
The day the so-called Pill went on the market was an evil day for humankind.
I am a lifelong conservative in ultra-lefty-land. I do not recall knowing of such so-called conservatives either.
I have known persons who claim to be Christians who are such, but that is not at all the same thing.
Both of my siblings destroyed their lives with drugs; I never felt even slightly tempted.
Yes. That was the goal.
Collectivists do not care about people; that is the pretext. They knew that women voted left as a bloc, and they wanted half the population to have the vote for that reason.
Compared to women, every other targeted bloc is pocket change.
The political paternalism and welfare policies of the 60’s essentially destroyed the black family. The repercussions have been evident and painful for generations.
We always seems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and the Democrats since the 1980’s have made that their national policy. I call it treason.
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I agree! I also call the article’s statement about our “Military Defeat” a bunch of Communist Supporting Bull Crap. We DID NOT suffer a “military defeat.” We suffered a Political Choice of throwing in the towel because of the peacenics. We have as a nation, never recovered from the Jane Fondas of that time. I call their actions Treason of the highest order for which they should have been drawn and quartered! And that includes our former Sec. of State, John F. Kerry.
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