Posted on 10/01/2025 6:50:11 AM PDT by Starman417
Politics is a dirty business. It always has been. But today, politics is sometimes too often synonymous with violence.
While there were many catalysts that resulted in violence being seen as a “legitimate” form of political discourse, one stands out: Columbia University, 1968. That year, a combination of black and anti-war activists took over a building on the campus of New York’s premier university. They demanded that Columbia cancel a proposed nearby gymnasium that was claimed to be racist and end its relationship with a Department of Defense-affiliated think tank.
The NYPD eventually ejected the activists after a series of violent clashes. In a sane world, every one of those students would have been expelled, barred from campus, and sued for damages. But that’s not what happened.
No, the administration acquiesced to virtually every demand, and there were very few consequences. Suddenly, on TVs across America, activists were learning the lesson that violent takeovers can yield good results with minimal consequences, if any, even at one of the nation’s leading universities. The message having been received, it was suddenly gloves off for activists across the country. Yale, Howard, Brown, and others followed. The next year saw more of the same at Harvard and U Penn, too.
These students, these radicals, including terrorists, did not reflect most American people’s opinion. In that year’s election, the Democrat candidate, who was far more acceptable to the American people than the left’s activist wing, could still secure only 13 states and 42% of the popular vote. Four years later, Nixon would be reelected by a 49 to 1 Electoral College landslide. Not only that, but between 1968 and 1988, Democrats would win only one out of 6 elections and would lose 49 states twice.
In 1968 and many years after, the radicals in the Democrat party wouldn’t reflect majority opinion, but the die was cast. The lesson was learned: Violence wins. And so it grew.
The radical SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) launched violent protests against their closest mainstream ally, the Democrats, during the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago. The next year, terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn would launch the Weather Underground, which would bomb the US Capitol two years later. The pace accelerated: “During an eighteen-month period in 1971 and 1972, the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings on U.S. soil, nearly 5 a day.” That violence wasn’t coming from conservatives.
Over time, those Baby Boomers, the spoiled spawn of the Greatest Generation, would basically turn against and undermine everything their parents fought for. They would go on to become teachers and professors and writers and journalists, taking the lessons and the perspectives from 1968 with them. Nothing exemplifies this more than the fact that Communist Howard Zinn’s treacherous A People’s History of the United States became the textbook of choice for tens of thousands of teachers across the country.
It would take a while, but by the early 1990s, the radicals from ’68 were firmly in control of almost every educational and cultural institution in America. From schools and universities to NGOs and newsrooms, the radicals were in a position to brainwash America’s youth with their leftist poison. And they did.
America began to see the full fruit of the radicals’ poison during the Bush years, when he was regularly called a Nazi and compared to Hitler. In 2008, the radicals finally came into their own with the election of their fellow traveler, Barack Obama. Indeed, Obama launched his political career in the home of terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.
Under Obama, the racial divide would grow, the gay lobby would begin its evolution into the trans nightmare we have today, and the violent rhetoric against anyone who opposed the left would intensify. Obama would use the government apparatus, which was now fully stocked by acolytes of those 1960s radicals, to target conservatives. Simultaneously, the justice apparatus across the country—by design, typically one of the least radical elements of the government structure—from District Attorneys to parole boards to judges and justices, embraced the leftist victimization mentality where virtually no transgression, including violence, should be punished, unless the perpetrator is from an unapproved group.
What’s more, the universities had become indoctrination centers producing millions of illiberal and sometimes violent graduates taking to the streets in support of every leftist cause. They were found in Antifa, in BLM, in trans groups, in pro-illegal immigrant groups, and antisemitic groups from both the Islamic and progressive perspectives.
All of this culminated during the era of Donald Trump. His first term was bookended by violence. In January 2017, Washington went up in flames upon his inauguration, and in the summer of 2020, cities and towns around the country were engulfed in flames and violence as the death of George Floyd sparked the left’s decades-long propaganda kindling of white supremacy and institutional racism. Then, during the Biden administration, violent antisemitic protests were allowed to blossom on campuses across the country.
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Horse$hit! I received my education at Gonzaga University. None of my professors were from China or Russia. The greatest proportion of my classes were taught by my accounting professor, who served in the Navy during WWII. He never used numbers, taught the theory behind every accounting problem. I’m still applying those lessons 49 years later.
LOL, a blind man telling me what I should see.
Ok you are great. We break ground on a monument to you next week.
I hope you teach how bad globalism and destructive consequences of free trade which was started by the greatest generation and put on steroids by the boomers.
They have never ever been my fellows.
Spread the blame and include the .com gang who have financed most of the insanity to assuage their guilt and prove they are the smartest man in the room.
No, they have never been my fellows.
See, there were a lot of really self righteous Romans that believed in the Republic but still an empire came. No one cares about those patriots, even if they were correct, because they were washed away by history.
Nothing says “look at me I am narcissist” by using yourself as a virtuous boomer when talking about an ENTIRE generation of 10s of millions of boomers:
You’re always good for a chuckle VA!
I don’t have to be great. I’m not a pagan
This hatred is simply unnecessary
You mistake the truth for hatred. Nazi much?
And the Greatest Generation had the chance to stop it all.
They had "Tail Gunner Joe" McCarthy telling them of the Communist infiltration in to the US Federal Government but they allowed the Media to label him crack pot who saw communist under every bush.
McCarthy was right, the Red Scare was real and the Communist took over the Democrat Party.
Everything that followed was predictable because the Communist were able to get embedded in the institutions that educated and shaped the Baby Boomers.
You’re correct, and the majority of the 1960s Red Diaper Babies stoking all of the hate were from the Silent Generation.
The dopes doing all of the Boomer bashing routinely blame us for what that generation did.
I’m an early Boomer and most of the time we were only spectators for all of the chaos and destruction we get blamed for by the emerging Generation Stupid.
Yes, that and a lack of critical thinking.
Hey, I am a bit narcissistic myself. I fight a daily battle for humility.
Sadly, yes.
Don't let it bother you. So it was and so it shall always be. Thirty years from now young people will be whining about how Gen Z messed it up for everyone. Sigh.
“ Don’t let it bother you. So it was and so it shall always be. Thirty years from now young people will be whining about how Gen Z messed it up for everyone. Sigh.”
Of course.
Boomer bashing is on the same level as right wingers complaining about Jews and blacks or left wingers bashing Christians and whites. FR and other web sites continually break out into Catholic vs. Protestant food fights. Obviously, neither side will agree with the role of the Catholic Church as the only authority on Scripture vs. Sola Scriptura. Then you have fights between dispensational Protestants and amillennial Protestants, with the former saying that if you don't believe in the pre-trib Rapture, you are a proto-Nazi and the latter claiming that the dispensationalists have been duped by the Jesuits, the Illuminati or whomever.
The blame game is just another divide and conquer technique. If you get Gen X and Millennials to fight Boomers, or whites to fight blacks, or Catholics to fight Protestants, or dispensationalists to fight amillennialists, and all vice versa, you have successfully divided the conservative base that should be focused on the enemy.
Did it get fixed in the last 50 years?
“ neither side will agree with the role of the Catholic Church as the only authority on Scripture vs. Sola Scriptura”
What kind of a statement is this?
I don’t blame the Baby Boomers, of which I am a part. That brush is too broad. I blame the leftist hippies of the 60’s. They set out to change the world, and they have - for the worse, much worse.
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