Posted on 04/03/2020 7:59:27 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
I’m sure many here remember the strict “Stay-at-home” orders that were issued immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack...
Yeah this is getting totally ridiculous. I have vendors asking me for some money and I’m being told my local banks made need another week to figure out the loan. Let’s ruin the economy instead of just protecting those at risk.
It was prosperity that brought out the worst: the decadence of Western Civilisation in America, the spoiled brat generations, and widespread tolerance of government corruption, cultural sleaze, and the empowerment of the Democrat Party, i.e. the Party of Hate and Evil.
Of course, there is nothing good about war and pestilence, and prosperity is a wonderful blessing to be sought, worked hard for, appreciated, and loved, but let's hope the current crisis knocks some sense into the spoiled brats and brings them to truth and reality.
What happened to “The Greatest Generation” post war? they raised the most liberal generation in modern history.
1. Big Government
2. Globalism
What happened to "the Greatest Generation" post war was that THEY BECAME the most liberal generation in modern history up to that point.
Go back and do the research every destructive step in the social/cultural decay of this country that has been attributed to the rise of the "Baby Boomers," and you'll find that almost every one of them was carried out by the prior generation, not them.
Most of the post-war population believed that the government would solve all the world’s problems the same way it defeated the Axis powers.
They weren’t privy to all the blundering that went on behind the scenes that caused countless disasters.
“I’m sure many here remember the strict “Stay-at-home” orders that were issued immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack...”
Actually read some history immediately after it, and you will see a lot of stuff happening that most of FR would meltdown over. Cant imagine the number of people here that would think air raid drills in Chicago, travel restrictions, and rationing, were an affront to their civil liberties.
Go read up on the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, and many people here would be screaming bloody murder at the way people then had to react to it.
the big world wide effort to beat fascism ..........
fascinating insight
You mean Nazism. It didn't take all that much to defeat Italy. Funny that they use the term Fascists for Nazis, why is that? Could it be because "Nazi" was short for "National Socialist"? And of course that would be an admission that the Nazis were fellow socialists.
Interestingly, there may have been almost no exposure to the Spanish Flu here in the U.S. had it not been for our involvement in that stupid war.
War against the Left in general and those who are falling prey to their constant drumbeat of “be very afraid and ask us to save you - from yourselves.”
And they still had to deal with polio and measles outbreaks
While the word fascist started as Mussolini’s movement, the word has come to have a broader meaning of totalitarianism and thus, in my mind, also encompasses nazi Germany and imperial Japan.
And why do you think that happened?
But it's true that "history is a staircase on which men in hobnail boots ascending pass men in velvet slippers descending."
Some people are not destroyed by prosperity, but some apparently are.
Some nations are not destroyed by prosperity, but some apparently are.
The Trump children are a good example. Even as the privileged children of a multi-billionaire, they remained ascendent, wholesome, hard working, grateful, loving, and healthy mentally, spiritually, and morally. (This is one thing that those who have allowed themselves to become suffused with decadence and all its sleaze and sickness hate about President Trump and his family.)
I have to believe that God has his purpose in all things. CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters is a satirical epistolary account of correspondence between Screwtape, a senior bureaucrat demon in hell, and his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter in his first assignment to corrupt a soul.
When it looked like the world was ramping up to WWII, Wormwood writes Screwtape, gleeful in anticipation of the wave of evil, death and destruction about to visit humanity. Screwtape replies admonishing the junior demon that in such times, he should also anticipate examples of unprecedented courage, compassion and charity that would rise in the face of widespread death and privation.
Incorrecto... The next generation did that.
Disagree, the next generation surpassed them.
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