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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Thank you
Benny Johnson is the worst
He’s full of hate for boomers
But never a peep his Gen is doing the killing and rent a mob
He even lies about who’s a boomer when it’s actually an Xer
“”””I see clearly. I’ve been teaching American lit and history to younger generations, patriotism and prayer
I served my country in the military””””
As a boomer, you are one of 10 million boomers who served, and a member of the age group that most strongly supported the Vietnam War in polling during the war, and that voted 52% for Nixon in 1972.
You of all people
A southerner like me Nazi baiting?
You can do better hoss
Like I asked you
Look at who votes R most consistently
It’s boomers
“””””But I still have my microskirts hanging in the basement as memories”””””
Please, some of us males are trying to think right now if we are going to post, don’t make it harder on us.
I am not dissecting the boomers just looking at the overall record.
I know it would just ruin his little rant but he really should have done it to prevent people like me from coming along and pointing and laughing at the stupid historically illiterate author.
If you take this crap seriously, you probably think astrology is a serious science. People born in 1946 have absolutely nothing in common with people born in 1964.
Benny has gotten a little full of himself lately. I wonder if Benny ever had a job other than yakking on the internet being a so called “influencer”. Many of the people he directs his hate at have done far more for this country than he ever has.
I don’t think he has ever served his country in the military either.
He really needs to rein himself in because he isn’t all that big of a prize he believes himself to be.
This kind of arrogance isn’t serving the America First movement at all.
I am a boomer. I did quite well and raised five wonderful and productive children.
To his credit, he has a lot of contact and he does try. I will give him that, but he’s sensationalize a lot and his headlines are not accurate frequently.
“McCarthy was right. The boomers were educated in college by commie influence from China and Russia.”
Joe McCarthy died in 1957.
The oldest Boomers were 11 and wouldn’t start college until 1964.
Do some math.
I always thought he seemed like a nice enough guy most of the time. I have learned a lesson when it comes to many internet influencer types.
The totally rely on clicks and sensationalizing, exaggerating, speculating, is how they make their money. They sometimes have to make a story somehow “unboring” or more exciting, in order to keep people tuning in.
If I think they are doing that, I tune them out.
I’m betting no one can name even one professor McCarthy accused who was teaching Boomers in 1964 and beyond.
McCarthy wasn’t charging people with infiltrating “beginning in the 50s”, he was accusing them in 1953 of behavior in years prior, much of it during the 1930s and 1940s.
McCarthy’s current admirers may not know that he was enough of a fool to accuse George Marshall, the Army’s senior General in WWII, of conspiring against the United States.
https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/joseph-mccarthy-condemns-george-marshall-1951/
That was in 1951. When he decided to take on the Army in general in 1954 he went a bridge too far and that ended up destroying his self promoting career.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-22/mccarthy-army-hearings-begin
There had definitely been Communist infiltration in the American government and the likes of Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley and HUAC exposed them years before.
McCarthy wasn’t part of that. He tried to ride their coattails for his personal political benefit.
He’s killing it
Estimated cash flow various media streams is 5-13M depending who’s counting
He’s not Rogan or Tucker but maybe in league with Vonn or Megyn
There’s gold in them there pod cast hills!
I heard CBS offered Megyn anchor slot which she rejected out of hand
4m subscribers YouTube alone
Prolly similar money to Benny and unlike him she has ads
Benny produces more content than about anyone honestly
I like Taibbi and Benz too
Sara Gonzales
Victor who irritates but I watch all his stuff
Rogan and Shawn Ryan at times
Prolly like most here
I watch daily signal some
Schellenberger and Sachs if they pop up
The Frankfurt School had about 20 members.
There were 400,000 college professors in the 1960s.
Apparently they weren’t teaching enough math to the general public.
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