Sit and bitch about being betrayed or stand up and take back your country.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4340229/posts?page=62#62
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What I’m watching right now is to see where we are in the arc of escalation.
Interestingly there’s a pattern in history where there’s a 20 to 30 year buildup of grievance before there ends up being a major revolution or an assassination. In this country we’ve had 20 to 30 years of grievance.
We had children raised up under the grievances of their parents, and now they have what’s called an ‘inherited grievance.’
Where their parents will tolerate the injustice that they see, the children will not tolerate it, and they are more likely to engage in much more physical and violent manners to be able to change the world because the grievance is their entire life. It becomes their identity.
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The above is the text from a tik-tok video of somebody (professional student of history?) that your post made me think of.
Thank you for your service. While I don’t share entirely your views on the Vietnam War, I do on your “war at home”. Although my link is with regard to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the response seems to indicate that the war at home is not lost.
TPUSA has 900 college chapters and 1,200 in high schools. In the past view days they have received 32,000 applications to start new chapters. (Heck, it could be 64,000 as the article I read was from Sunday morning).
Nixon resigned a month before I began attending high school. Our HS Class and the four before us (’72 was the first) were a mix of backgrounds, talents, interests, personalities, attitudes etc., and just about every HS in the county was very similar to ours.
There was so much permissiveness going on it was hard to believe. The fear and loathing, sex, drugs and rock & roll was everywhere and so was there this atmosphere of mistrust and having been betrayed but when you’re only 14 or 15 years old and had all of that going on around you, it was hard to know why things were the way they were, but you knew things weren’t going to ever be the same as they were in grade school. All of the sudden, you’re in HS and there’s all of this crime going on! I still wasn’t quite sure where the past left off and where the future should begin. It wasn’t the Greasers and the Frats anymore, it was the Freaks and the Jocks.
For some odd reason, I gravitated towards the Freaks but I still had roots in my original circle. Even though half the faculty, many of whom were only 10 years older than us (in Jr. High too), we still had to make sense out of what was and/or what was not happening in the world on our own. A good number of the entire school system’s faculty members were veterans of various foreign wars who just wanted to keep on keeping on with their lives and their work, and nobody ever blamed them for anything...
By 1976, we started seeing more patriotism as the American Bicentennial became a kind of vehicle for moving past our long national nightmare, but how far did that take us?
I had a hard time adjusting to the 1980’s, not knowing what we had in President(s) Reagan or Carter. Eventually, it was the School of Hard Knocks that helped me to find my way out of what turned out to be a teenage wasteland that a lot of us dwelled on.
By 2027 however, I think things are going to be a lot different for everyone because I believe that when Trump talks it up, saying how we will see (like never before) a new Golden Age in America, he will not disappoint.
Free Republic has the most intelligent, well-written threads on the Internet.
Such a joy to read and ponder.
Thanks, guys!
Once the world wars in particular were over and global dynamics reset, the power brokers were going to shut down that abundance, opportunity, and freedom. They do not give up nor share power willingly.
Before saying that Vietnam fell in 1975 and it didn’t hurt much as far as Communism in Asia, we have to figure out if the years 1954 to 1975 changed that result.
College professors sympathetic to communism can be blamed for most, if not all, of the rot and evil in culture today. They have lived such useless lives of luxury they had to invent miseries where non exist. It feeds their ego and pays good money. The battle needs to be won there. Everything else has been birthed from the sewers of academia.
Excellent analogy. I’ve feel much the same as the author. When the US government allowed a known communist, John Brennan, to be head of the CIA, I knew our country was lost - the full circular firing squad of self defeat. There’s no way back except for a thorough cleansing of those government agencies that continue the rot of communism, and anti-American and anti-Constitutional governance.