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Progressive America is the Twilight Zone
American Thinker ^ | 8 Jun, 2022 | J. Robert Smith

Posted on 06/08/2022 3:46:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Biden’s misbegotten administration is the last of the Democrats’ trademarked “deals”: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society, and whatever other branded scam they’ve sold voters since.

The dilapidating state of our culture, institutions, and politics (the order is deliberate) have been decades in the making. Blame Boomers -- the culture definers among them -- for getting the ball rolling downhill in the highly romanticized lied about 1960s. They spawned the decadent counterculture, which set in motion every society-rotting development we’re grappling with today. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the aging avatars of counterculture radicals who turned into establishment exploiters.

Real Clear Politics’ average for “Direction of Country” polls is currently an eye-popping wrong track, 70.7%, while right direction stands at a paltry 22.4%. Other than D.C. lifers, welfare moochers, and people wanting their college debt loans erased, who are these 22%? And who, this side of lobotomies, is the smaller percentage of “not sure?”

America’s accelerating tumbling is the handiwork of a corrupt, ideologically driven, incompetent -- dare say, venal -- elite. Don’t doubt that most of the incompetence stems from an irreparably flawed leftist worldview and age-old, mind-twisting power- and money-lust.

A calamitous, destructive, painful descent is happening before our eyes. We’re witnesses to history -- but the imperative is to be actors against what we’re witnessing. Winning elections, though critical, won’t alone fix things. The culture needs to be retaken. Institutions need to be recaptured -- or routes around them created.

The attack on American Civilization is multi-fronted. Progressivism -- an Orwellian inversion if there ever was one – is reminiscent of the classic TV show, The Twilight Zone. In the show’s opening title, Rod Serling would say, in part, about the world of imagination that viewers were to enter:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communiam
“It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.”
1 posted on 06/08/2022 3:46:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Imagine if you woke up one day and you were in Pedo World.


2 posted on 06/08/2022 3:47:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Progressive Americans are Fourth Reich Nazi’s.


3 posted on 06/08/2022 3:48:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

In every despotism that ever existed on this planet, there is still a spark that burns in the hearts of many, that one day the despotism will collapse, and for a few moments, at least, the air is refreshed and taking a deep breath becomes at last possible.

Another despotism may arise, of course, for that is the history of mankind. And quite possibly an innate trait of much of humanity, to DESIRE this tyranny and control, which makes a mockery of “democracy” within less than a generation once freedom has been won.

Some folks just cannot stand prosperity, and if there is not enough adversity in their lives, they got to invent some.


4 posted on 06/08/2022 3:58:57 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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[America’s accelerating tumbling ...

A calamitous, destructive, painful descent is happening before our eyes.]

Absolutely shocking and scary.

The accelerated descent really took off with the anointing of the usurper.

Yet, much of America still can’t figure out what went wrong.


5 posted on 06/08/2022 4:14:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: central_va

Fourth Reich

not a bad analogy


6 posted on 06/08/2022 4:33:35 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: MtnClimber

It wasn’t until years after that I actually listened to what Rod Serling said and realized this guy was real...not the normal fake TV schtick. The beginnings of Night Gallery, are, by far, the most bizarre thing you will ever see on TV IMO!


7 posted on 06/08/2022 6:42:51 AM PDT by gr8eman (Qui non laborat, non manducet)
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To: MtnClimber

It puzzles me how people think that the boomers were the 60s leaders and creators of the counter culture and largely running America.

The boomers were little kids, some weren’t even born yet in 1960. The oldest boomer turned 14 in 1960, the boomers didn’t run anything, or even make up the music of the 60s, much less government and wars, politics, business, court decisions, run universities, teaching, TV, print media, or much of anything.

What teens and 5 year olds are running the world today?


8 posted on 06/08/2022 7:07:25 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy.)
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9 posted on 06/08/2022 7:07:44 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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Help, I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being alone
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

That might have made more sense in the original Dutch.

10 posted on 06/08/2022 7:11:41 AM PDT by x
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To: gr8eman

When he was discharged in 1946, the boxing paratrooper (11th Airborne) Rod Serling had earned the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Philippine Liberation Medal.


11 posted on 06/08/2022 7:32:08 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy.)
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To: ansel12

Excellent points.

And those born in 1964 have sooo much in common with those born in 1946 (who could be their parents).


12 posted on 06/08/2022 8:26:32 AM PDT by utax
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13 posted on 06/08/2022 9:05:29 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: ansel12

Is their a medal for being extra weird? He was the real deal!


14 posted on 06/10/2022 9:24:16 AM PDT by gr8eman (Qui non laborat, non manducet)
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To: clearcarbon

Yes this is obama’s world. Biden is just the front guy designated to take the blame. Biden is not running anything which is why he gets so frustrated and is so out of touch.


15 posted on 06/10/2022 9:35:16 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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