All downhill after this
Secular liberalism with its government welfare schemes fills in vacuums left by the collapse of Christian practice. It is also a poor stand-in for it.
The answer here isn’t the politician. It’s the evangelist.
IMHO....the two things that came along in the 60’s, causing irreversible harm to the family unit were
1. the birth control pill....suddenly women did not have to think twice about consequences of their decision-making
2. the dishwasher....for those of you that remember family life before the dishwasher, you may agree that the evening ritual of washing dishes was the time when family bonding occurred.....along came the dishwasher and poof! no more need to hang around after eating dinner.
1. JFK
2. Hippies & drugs
3. LBJ
4. Hippies & drugs
5. Nixon
6. Hippies & drugs
I did stupid things in the late 60s early 70s. I should hate them. But it was a learning experience I lived through. And I don’t hate the times then.
My favorite things about the late 60s. Apollo 8 circled the moon and the crew read from the bible. Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I experienced the Woodstock music and arts festival in White Lake NY.
“…what does not kill me makes me stronger.” Nietzsche
Anti-defense hippies smell bad and carry social diseases.
60’s destroyed this nation.
Drugs and leftism and anti-Christianity.
The “1965 Immigration Act” with its 60 million LEGAL immigrants who vote 80% Democrat plays no small part in this mess.
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George McGovern solidified the rabid Left into the Democrat fold in 1972, and they’ve gotten worse every four years since.
They’re so far from what our Forefathers imagined today, it’s truly sad.
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.
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.
I wasn't there, no one saw me, you cannot prove a thing!
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.
Giving women the vote caused massive socialist increase in govt programs and interference in everyday life.
The political paternalism and welfare policies of the 60’s essentially destroyed the black family. The repercussions have been evident and painful for generations.
The root of cultural degeneration preceded the sixties.