Posted on 10/05/2009 8:10:51 PM PDT by Pitcairn
Is Obama a disaster zone? Of course he is. Lets cut through the crap, shall we?
The SOB has never had any experience. And, but for the failed phrase Compassionate Conservative, we would never have been where we are today.
What the hell does America have to show for a liberal agenda? Can anyone stand up and tell us?
An educational system occupied by apologist leftists? The ideal of community values now epitomized by a lack of gang bangers saying trick or treat on Halloween? The concept that family is a couple of homosexual men with a child and nice landscaping?
Are we kidding ourselves?
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That’s nice.
The Republican Party should be cultivating that garden vociferously.
Add to the angst you feel, the fact that you pay into a Social Security system that will be bankrupt before you draw down a cent from it.
The election stolen by Jack Kennedy in 1960. It was the trend-setting triumph of pure hosshiite over any remaining semblance of human reason. Remember, parents who were 30-something in the 1980's grew up under Eisenhower and had been taught by responsible adults themselves ... more than likely Depression and WWII survivors. Those in my generation who knew better, (20 y.o. in 1960, were powerless and too inexperienced) to prevent the Takeover of the Institutions by the Left, which was already well under way, not to mention serving in the military while the home front crumbled.
IMHO, the slow death spiral down the drain of history accelerated at the point of that election. The country is still divided 50/50, i.e., those who still think Jack Kennedy is this country's answer to Christ, Buddha, and Alexander the Great, and those of us who know he was the diseased, dishonest, lazy, spectaculary inept, and sex-maniacal fool who stumbled us into VietNam.
Bobby and Jack? The Holy Martyrs who shared Marilyn Monroe.... anything wrong with that picture? Ted? His legacy benefits only because the Third Worlders with which he sought to re-people the Republic, and succeeded, will never even be able to spell "Chappaquiddick," and yet these people are gods, to about half of the American public.
Can't run a real country that way. Hope the CHICOM are kind to our posterity.
Point taken, but we also took a real bad turn a few decades earlier when the country decided to replace the Constitution with a father figure in the shape of Franklin Roosevelt.
Yes we do. Coming of age in the 80’s was great. Mom and Dad married, sister, dog scouts. I am trying to do the same for my children, but the out side world keeps on trying to **** it all up. The anger is here. My Church has left me, so now I have to find a new one. Just Damn! At least I do have my wife and kids, for that I thank G_d every day(mostly :) ).
Yeah and you “Baby Boomers” only have yourselves to blame. Are you seriously making an argument your generation is the victim. You have had the top political and private leadership roles for over a decade and have screwed it all up.
What a bunch of cultural cowards.
Good ridence to them all.
Nam Vet
If you have a problem with my piece, then tell us what it is.
Otherwise, and regardless of the respect I have for your sacrifice and no matter your experience, bugger off.
The rest of your generation is a bunch of cowards. Perhaps, that is where your invective should be chanelled.
Sorry, but I have to laugh at the notion that Gen-Xers are so pure.
I went to college in the ‘80’s, and later returned in the ‘90’s when the so-called “Xers” were there. In the ‘80’s, when Reagan was president, many of the students and professors at college were openly Republican. One professor joked that we were “boring” because we were so conservative. And we were independent in that we didn’t identify with each other as a “generation”.
But, in the ‘90’s, the people in your age range were heavily influenced by their early-Boomer parents, whether you realize it or not. Like them, you identified as a “generation”, and you embraced the title, “Generation X”. I thought college in the ‘90’s was like the films I saw of college in the ‘60’s. The styles were a little different, but the thinking was the same.
I was born a month before the “Boom” ended. Those of us born in the second half of the “Boom” were too young to know much about Vietnam, peace protests, and so on. We came of age during the hostage crisis, wanted to bomb Libya, and voted for Reagan. Those talk radio conservative pundits so popular today were all born during the “Boom”, too, btw.
And, obviously, many early Boomers were fighting in Vietnam - a war for which many of them volunteered - where many gave their lives. And there were people in their age range who supported them. So, don’t blame THEM.
Maybe “Gen-X” is coming into conservatism now that you’re older and raising families. (Btw, conservatism is not about being politically incorrect or insensitive.) But, if you’re a real conservative, you’ll drop all the “generation” talk and start looking at people as individuals. Because many of the people around your age lean to the left.
Btw, someone here once raised an excellent point: The college students of the ‘60’s were being taught to think that way by their professors, who were members of the previous generation. Many of the most influential people on the Left during the ‘60’s were born in the previous generation before the Boom. This person made a good point that the blame goes back much further.
P.S. To ArmyTeach and Nam Vet: Have a good day, and thank you for your service. :-)
That being said, don't think that “conservatism” is some sort of “realized” pragmatism gained as one grows older.
I have always—as many others—been conservative before growing families.
And I still think the “Baby Boomers” sold out their country. Nothing is going to convince me otherwise.
This phrase is actually a synonym for conservative socialist, as coined by F.A. Hyek in his book The Road to Serfdom.
“But, if youre a real conservative, youll drop all the generation talk and start looking at people as individuals. Because many of the people around your age lean to the left.”
And that right there is talking out of both sides of your mouth.
If you are preaching treat people as individuals, drop the garbage that young people are notorious liberals. Really, we aren’t. Someone has to teach us this in the first place! Give us some credit, it would be nice to see for a change. Not all of use voted for Obama.
Point taken. I had always held the wishful opinion that the country had started returning to its senses when Ike beat Adlai.
Right now, IMHO, we are in a full blown constitutional crisis, not only over the vexing matter of Obama's eligibility, but in the absolute imbalance of federal power over the states.
States' Rights is a discredited term, but it is the Constitution's check on federal power. If there is a way out of the present mess, it is probably the key to re-establishing the order of the republic as designed by the founders..
Over the past decades, American young people have been rewarded for parroting spoon-fed leftist Social studies propaganda, rather than reading, thinking about, and discussing that vast body of American and World History. It is insidious at all levels. A constitutionalist educator has no longer any place in the educationalist establishment. Mark Levin, for all his constitutional knowledge, could not get himself hired as a high school teacher, a good number of whom were conservatives in earlier eras, when real History and (heavens forfend) Civics were taught at that level.
It is a fundamental cultural divide between a man of 70 and a man of 35. The idea of an American citizen as a part of and a product of our history is lost when citizens become "consumers."
Many of the people of my age (myself included) didn't immediately notice (for 15-20 years or so), that our guides were being replaced by the "Left." By the time we fully did (say around 1974) it was already too late because the MSM and the Popular Culture (whatever that is) had already led a willing country down a path far different from our own.
I was only responding to a discussion about "Gen-X" and the notion that Gen-Xers tend to be conservative whereas the "Boomer" generation created this whole mess. I just wanted to point out some of the myths about those two age groups.
No one was talking about the younger voters. (Unless the birthdate has been moved up again, the first "Gen-Xers" have hit their early 40's now. Some statistics place me in that age group.)
Yes, you're right, everyone is an individual. It's fun sometimes to talk about generations and what each one has in common. But, no particular age range is to blame for this mess. Each generation is taught by people in the previous generation, and then they go on to teach the next one.
Not to get off-topic, but the solution is to pull the children out of public school. My eldest child is a young teen and very conservative. Of course, whether or not he stays that way remains to be seen. ;-)
Well, I was a cutting edge ‘Boomer’ in college and grad school throughout the late sixties. I was a nice, polite, clean-cut little Democrat (before I learned better) because I didn’t believe in segretation. I was dismayed as I watched the SDS and Weathermen types taking over the campus, which ultimately turned me into a conservative. Social Security (Roosevelt) came well before my day, but as a naive new voter I watched Medicare come on line and paid for both systems all my working life. My parents benefitted from both, but it will probably be ‘soylent green’ for me. No whining, just the facts.
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