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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I’m very sad to see what my fellow boomers have done to this country.
Who needs this?
There’s not enough factional hatred?
I know the boomers. How they think or don’t think
I know they were raised by people tom broke labled the greatest generation. What makes him the arbiter? Did he look at the PTSD?
Boomers got Virt nam dumped on them. What the hell was that?
JFK getting shot
Trump is a Boomer. He’s going to fix this. With help from boomers
RFK Jr is a Boomer
Make it stop!
The 1965 heart Cellar Act was the death of this country. It was courtesy of the greatest generation. I’m not a boomer but passing this law caused more devastation than anything Boomers ever did
Fellow boomers. Stop
This government has been out of control
This Boomer is trying to help. So is Rump.
Stop
I am a boomer. We are the worst generation.
Yeah, it’s all boomers fault.
No personal responsibility or accountability for the people perpetrating these actions.
Classic blame shifting and vilifying a whole group to justify all kinds of evil perpetrated against them.
It’s disgusting.
You know what folks, suck it up and get over your entitlement mentality and take care of yourselves. Make due like we had to.
Speak for yourself.
Pretty much every problem we have was because of the boomer generation. The greediest, myopic and narcissistic generation ever.
But the individual decisions made by corrupt politicians are not the fault of boomers as a whole.
This vilifying a whole group of people to blame them for all the evils in this world is disingenuous. NO generation has ever been free from hardships and difficulties, but this current one doesn’t seem to know how to do anything but whine and blame shift and finger point about how are their problems are someone else’s fault.
Huh. Another self-hating Boomer. Speak for yourself. We ARE NOT the worst generation.
Oh BS!!!!!
Like the world was a paradise before boomers came along.
How delusional.
THANK YOU!!!!
McCarthy was right.
The boomers were educated in college by commie influence from China and Russia.
Exactly. How is it my fault that Clinton’s and GW Bush are Boomers? They are at the opposite end of the generation.
“I am a boomer. We are the worst generation.”
This is a lot of Media driven crap. Tom Brokaw started this greatest generation naming crap. Arbitrary
If the baby boomers are tge worst generation and were raised by the ‘greatest generation’ what does that say about the ‘greatest generation’?
This is useless
Donald Trump is a Baby Boomer. He is great. So are many of his staff
And, by the way America... you are quite welcome
because BOOMERS made the USA the most powerful military and economical sovereign nation on Earth.
Leftist Boomers ruin everything, but it can be shortened, Leftists ruin everything.
There were not Commies at my public university. The EARLY Boomers were the hippies and Commies with all the violence. Some of that was due to Vietnam.
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