I’ve often been amazed at how much the American psyche is focused on patriotism and how every sporting event, community event and political event focuses on honouring the troops, but how difficult it often is for veterans to be elected. Bush Sr., Bob Dole and John McCain were defeated by young liberal punks who loathed the military and gave no respect to the military service of their opponents. There’s a disconnect here and I can’t quite figure out why military service doesn’t seem to hold any sway with voters.
"Professor emeritus William Perry notes that less than 1 percent of Americans have a family member serving in active duty, and barely one in five members of Congress have ever served in the military."
Whenever I have attended any patriotic assemblies and the host asks any veterans in the audience to stand, and be recognized I am always saddened that there are only a very few us. And considering that the assemblies consists of those persons going to a patriotic function it is even worse for the general population as a whole.
“..young liberal punks who loathed the military and gave no respect to the military service...”
Simple.
1: They weren’t always “young liberal punks”. Marxist/Liberal College and university professors helped create that. Take your average kid full of hormones, trying to fit in and find his place in the world, and start hammering them with sex and political bullsh*t theories long since proven wrong, and give them NO alternative lines of dialogue nor forum for dissent, and you’ll GET “young liberal punks” who hate everything.
2: This isn’t the same country that it once was; post WWII, we had two, three generations of people who fought in that war, the 18 year olds from pre-1941, and the 18 years olds from 1945 and up through Korea. Those generations had tremendous patriotism and were taught Americanism in schools.
Americanism is now equated with racism by the same perpetrators in point number 1 above.
3: Parents of these young liberal punks were educated the same way. Brought up and raised on lib “feel-good” everything fair and equal garbage - you know, the “everybody gets a trophy for showing up” crowd.
4. Kids who actually DO serve in the military - the last bastion of Americanism, in my opinion, come out with an appreciation and a love of their country that their civvy counterparts will never have.
Which is all the more reason why Obama and his lib subversives were so hell-bent on fagging up the military services to de-stabilize that last bit of Americanism.