[Lancey Howard]

I still have my grandfather’s 1959 edition of the “Blue Book”. It’s a thin little book, but reading Welch’s words even now just makes me wonder how all the slap-in-the-face warnings went ignored? Just look where America is now? The parasites outnumber the hosts and there’s no going back. The communists are winning, and the only thing Congress seems capable of doing, regardless of its makeup, is change the pace of their progress.

[Kenny Bunk]

An old, opinionated, patriotic, windy kind of white guy, complete with orotund read-from-your-notes oratory that is the relic of an old-fashioned classical education based on Christian religious principles, is just simply not believable ... or perhaps more important ...not attractive to increasingly dumbed-down people who can still vote.

.....slap-in-the-face warnings went ignored?
Of course they did, and will continue to do so. Nowadays, if someone knows something, and someone else doesn't, there is the grave danger of a great loss of self-esteem in the transfer of information from the knowledgeable to the ignorant. That's because the opinions of the ignorant are now just as valid as the factual knowledge of the more informed. Furthermore, the ignorant demand the support of the informed, but not vice-versa.

Sorry. It seems to be the life-cycle of democracies.