I loved life in the Sixties, but I lived in a bubble.
My dad was military, and we lived out of the country on military bases in Japan and the Philippines between 1967 and 1972.
I was a strait-laced kid, for the most part. Didn’t drink or smoke.
I hated hippies, the anti-war movement, and liberals. They painted hardworking, dedicated and patriotic people like my dad and my friend’s dads with a broad brush...basically, evil and stupid.
I remember being pretty upset at the concept of Hubert Humphrey winning the presidency.
I lived on military bases, so I was insulated from what was going on back in the States. But I will tell you, there was a part of me that wasn’t excited to go back.
Race riots. LSD dropped into the lunches of unsuspecting students. Antiwar demonstrations. And so on.
But part of me desperately wanted to come back, and I do recall getting on my knees at the tarmac at Kennedy International in New York and pressing my lips to the asphalt.
No joke, I really did.
But the Sixties left us with what we have now in government: Radical Leftists. There are no more Democrats like Zell Miller or Scoop Jackson (though Scoop Jackson showed his true colors during the Annie Lee Moss fiasco, in the same way Truman showed his true colors when it became apparent there was indeed a communist infestation in the US government...)
But there is not one single Democratic politician in this country that I feel has the best interests of the United States at heart, as I did feel with some Democrats in years gone by.
Now, they are all rubber-stamp stooges, as far as I am concerned, aiding and abetting the destruction of this country. Not a single honorable one amongst them.
But the Sixties left us with what we have now in government: Radical Leftists. There are no more Democrats like Zell Miller or Scoop Jackson (though Scoop Jackson showed his true colors during the Annie Lee Moss fiasco, in the same way Truman showed his true colors when it became apparent there was indeed a communist infestation in the US government...)
...”But there is not one single Democratic politician in this country that I feel has the best interests of the United States at heart, as I did feel with some Democrats in years gone by.
Now, they are all rubber-stamp stooges, as far as I am concerned, aiding and abetting the destruction of this country. Not a single honorable one amongst them.”...
I imagine you would be surprised at how many people agree with you. Your Dad and his military cohorts were REAL men. What we have in authority over us today are “metro” men who wouldn’t walk across the street to protect their very own family. They are narcissists for the most part and some of them probably never stopped using drugs. Many, if they even have families, are working on the second or third one. They do not have any vision of the future beyond their own lifetimes and they do not care about that. They want to amass fortunes to escape this nation when they finally destroy it. I sincerely hope there is no place for them to go. My opinion.
Your comments read like my life story...LOL. My dad was also military and until he retired, we always lived on base. I was in California in the late sixties - about 90 miles from San Francisco so believe me I had my gut full of hippies by the time we left for Turkey. I lost two friends in Nam (also AF brats) so I really, really hated hippies and the so-called peace movement. I remember crying when Goldwater lost. And my best memory on returning to the states was the time we came home from England on the SS United States and going up on the deck at 0400 and seeing the Statue of Liberty. Most beautiful sight this little 12 year old ever saw!