Posted on 08/13/2019 9:55:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was brought up a military brat. My father did 22 years in the United States Air Force. In 1954 when he joined, they promised if he made a career of it, he and his wife, my mother, would be taken care of for life. He got out in 1976 after extending his service a couple of extra years so I would not have to switch high schools in Florida.
We moved out west after my father retired and I finished high school. In 1978, I got a job in the wood products industry at a particleboard factory and began work a schedule that just became normal to me. seven days on, two days off, working nights, weekends, and most holidays. I wore “save the whales” t-shirts at work.
The industry came under attack because of environmental concerns for the spotted owl. The lumber and wood products industry in the West was decimated over the next 15-20 years. We tried to muster support from our government, but our efforts fell on deaf ears. Eventually after 22 years, the facility I worked at closed. The ability to do what we did, which was to recycle sawdust and discarded wood into a usable product, became too expensive as we had to go further and further away for our raw materials. The logging industry was gone because of environmentalism and government policies to put animal concerns ahead of humans.
The spotted owl (the Mexican spotted owl in the southwest) was noted later on to be mating with other ‘species’ of owls.
It occurred to me if they can call an owl of a different color another species, then this should be applied to humans. By a definition of species, we are all our own species based on external color, size and shape, etc..
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Great article. Read it to the end.
“We believed the same things really as she (Mom) espoused conservative positions, but she thought the Democrats had her back on it all.”
MILLIONS, probably tens of millions of conservative-living Americans, my parents included, were/are the same. They were never told/shown just what the Democrat Party has become, so they STILL, to this day, think it’s the party of FDR and JFK, two idiots who still loved America. Today, it’s nothing of the sort - but how to get that across to people in the 80s now. Not a clue.
Baby killers never satisfied with anything but more power. As for claims we are racist, one can wake up one morning and change behavior. Baby killers will forever have blood on their hands.
Given the poison spewing from MSNBC, CNN, etc., I do not think it is possible to change the minds of democrat seniors. The democrat leadership have been so nasty, un-American, and leftwing for so many years now that if it were possible for these peoples’ minds to be opened, they would have left the democrat party years ago. Democrats good, Republicans bad, is their religion, the very core of their being, that whatever hatred, whatever evil comes out of the mouths of the leftwing MSM, is better in their minds than anything Republican. It is heartbreaking and I fear for their immortal souls. But there is no meeting of the minds anymore, and I have lost good friends of many years because of this demon-created hatred that the evil MSM pours out 24/7 has consumed their minds and souls. They are addicted to it, live in fear, convinced that climate change of some sort is going to destroy the earth, and we are the evil ones for calling it nonsense. They believe us to be evil, ignorant, selfish, racist murderers. Only God can help them, pray for them.
Well stated - and agree, obviously. And it’s really sad, because they live their lives just like we do...and then vote for Stalinists without regard to their kids, grand kids, or great grand kids. Really, really, sad.
bump
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.