It started with the vietnam war. Americans had 2 parents with 5 plus children. The children outnumbered the parents. When we got embroiled in the Vietnam conflict, there was no threat to our national existence. Our parents had to conscript us to fight it. We didn’t have a clear reason for going over there to fight an enemy which we didn’t even have a concept of. No desire to win.
Needless to say, the revolt was the children refusing to do as their parents told them. Never mind that it was wrong for our parents to tell us to go over there to kill and die for something they never articulated very well. It was the civil disobedience of our generation, the boomers, towards our forbears, the Great Generation, that led to the rise of liberalism. We questioned everything they told us finding our excuses to not obey the command to go over there to fight and possibly die.
Questions included why no war was declared, what right did we have to go tell other people how to live, why should we believe in God? It was existential. I remember being in high school and worrying about being drafted. After they ended it, I wanted nothing whatsoever to do with military service. I rooted for Jerry Brown to become President. I thought well of Carter and his folksy ways. It wasn’t until Iran that I became a Reagan supporter, and have voted Republican since. But I tell you what, among my peer group, it is extremely rare to find another Republican.
In WWII, soldiers got off the boat at Normandy... knowing a German army lay on the hill with guns on the ready and mowed our men down. Boat load after boat load came ashore, knowing they probably would be killed. they came ashore until enough made it alive.
my father was one of them who made it. he said they could not stop and help any fallen.. they were to grab guns and pack if they could get it on the run.
they came ashore wet and bootlogged..
now... let me add.. discipline is what makes the military great.. don’t ask.. just do what you are told.. my father had a few weeks training in the states and was then shipped to the front lines.
Tell me how many men today would obey orders and get off that boat and run thru gunfire.. knowing it probably meant death.
how many Americans would think it unbelievable.. how many media would condemn it.
we would have lost that war if media had their cameras there.
it takes a war to win it.. one side can’t lay down and be nice.
this today is hitting all my sences...
I am furious the dumb can vote this on the rest of us.. and the lying continues.. as it did in Russia to control the people.. back when I didn’t know such could happen.