The Nightmare Is Back: The Late 1970s Have Returned

Self | 11/08/2006 | GOP_1900AD

[Political Junkie Too]

Groundhog day...

Iran acting up, Democrats control Congress, Ortega and Sandinista's in Nicaragua, Russia re-emerging. What else?

-PJ

[Ancesthntr]

Food for thought, some have compared Obama with Carter.

Does Obama have a crazy hick brother, a mother who can't shut up, a daughter who is an expert on all things nukear, take drugs that make him see killer swimming rabbits, and have shiite for brains? If so, then the comparison is apt.

[jaime1959]

Go sit on a Whoopee Cushion, why don't you?

[BureaucratusMaximus]

So are we going to have to wear leisure suits and spend our weekends at the roller disco?

I wouldn't mind the Bee Gees either.

I say bring it on.

ANYTHING is better than rap "music". :)

[kingattax]

nice writing anyway

[sheik yerbouty]

If the jihadists and their useful infidels have their way, they will attempt more than a van conversion. We must adapt, improvise and overcome the enemy. things can be done at a local level and proceed from there.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

It's more like, 1974

[frogjerk]

Boy, American cars were hunks of junk back then.

I don't know about that. Most but not all.

And speaking about the AMC Gremlin, my dad had bought a brand new one in 1973. It was ugly green but it had a straight-6 in it and it would not die. The car was indestructible.

[Rum Tum Tugger]

I thought Studebaker was long out of business.

So, where are you getting those Larks?

My Dad had a Lark - nice car.

[RightWhale]

In the 70s Prudhoe Bay had its pipeline built and crude started flowing 2 million barrels a day. Don't see anything like that happening now.

[Professional Engineer]

bookmark

[7thson]

I do not know if I agree with everything said. Too many big words used - in my opinion - in order to imrpess. However, two things stand out that I want to comment on-

For a short period after the attacks on the USA of September 11, 2001, there arose a unity and a fighting spirit unlike anything that had been seen since the 1940s.

This "unity" did not last one week. I remembered news reports in the first week after 9/11 of people ashamed to fly the flag and other things like that. There was never a true unity after 9/11 and that has always shocked, amazed, and saddened me.

The West is utterly outnumbered militarily and is headed for dire economic straits - many in the West are, based on their balance sheets, already there. All coordination and will to fight the East is gone. The people tasted war and could not stand it. A malaise is setting in. A discontinuity looms in the future, unlike anything ever previously experienced. The average person is completely unaware of and disconnected with the past.

I completely agree with this. I mention news items to people and all I get is a blank look. Even from those who I thought would know, I get that blank look.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" That state of affairs is characterized, geopolitically, by a complete regression to a general condition nearly identical to the late 1970s. What makes this critically dire is that fact that, unlike the late 1970s, where we were flailing geopolitically, yet still had the capability to inflict massive retaliation, we now, owing to the unprecedented military draw down and unilateral nuclear disarmament since the late 1980s, do not have truely massive retaliation capability. And given the current roadmap of military development and deployment, what capability we retain is slated to continue withering. These are controversial statements which fly in the face of what passes for conventional wisdom. For me, the final confirmation of our backsliding were the results of the 2006 Midterm Elections in the USA. "

This article is not to far fetched.... here is something that some debunk it , but,I believe it really happen.
It should shed some light..


http://www.liberty1.org/gwvision.htm

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.liberty1.org/gwvision.htm

[GOP_1900AD]

LOL!

[agere_contra]

We have indeed returned to the late 1970s, but this version is the nightmare version

Disagree. This time the DBM is dying, and the economy is going through the roof.

[GOP_1900AD]

Of course such comparisons come from those who miss Carter. To them, Obama is similarly naive and utopian.

[GOP_1900AD]

That and a bean bag chair ... ;)

[GOP_1900AD]

Thanks! :)

[GOP_1900AD]

Yep.