Posted on 06/18/2022 4:16:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats seem unable or unwilling to learn that We No Longer Trust Them.
In 1955, Pete Seeger released the iconic song, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," which railed against the Vietnam War. A line frequently reprised in the song resonates with today's Democrat party: "When will they ever learn?"
Progressive Democrats are currently in positions of authority in the White House, halls of Congress, federal agencies, school systems, large corporations, and the legacy media. Using a fabricated COVID crisis as a bludgeon, progressives justified an unconstitutional power-grab with statements we know were and are lies. Nonetheless, they expect Americans to continue accepting their anti-scientific advisories, coercive activities, and unlawful orders (mandates) meekly, even gratefully. After all, that is what happened in 2021.
Democrats seem unable or unwilling to learn that We No Longer Trust Them. The public has learned that they are flimflam con artists. What have Democrats learned? Apparently, nothing.
A recently reported action by the CDC exemplifies Democrat failure to learn. The CDC is the ex-trustworthy agency that falsified COVID data; altered its definitions, predictions, and pandemic metrics; and issued contradictory, non-medical recommendations.
"When will they ever learn" — the CDC, that is — that their behavior destroyed their credibility with the public? Evidently never, as now the CDC wants to create a permanent crisis response to COVID wherever it might be detected, with a return to masking and lockdowns. Americans have learned, but, apparently, the CDC has not: "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Where have all the flowers gone was not written in 1955 to end/protest the Vietnam War. It was written in protest to nuclear proliferation.
Actually, Red Pete took the words from a Russian novel he had recently read, "And Quiet Flows the Don" and took the melody from an Irish tune, "Johnson Says He'll Load More Hay". Pete was of course reading lots of Russian material in the 1950s.
Like all his commie friends, Pete made the transition from anti-war to pro-war in 1941, when the threat to his precious USSR switched from the US and Western Europe to Germany, but he switched back by 1946 after Germany was dead and anti-communism was again in vogue in our lands.
The song had nothing to do with Vietnam, since it was published in 1955, its original Soviet inspiration was a general "war is terrible" ripoff of All Quiet on the Western Front, the author, Mikhail Sholokhov, may actually been independently creating, in effect, "All Quiet on the Eastern Front".
Anyway, after the stalemate in Korea, OUR commies were really hot and bothered about undermining Western militaries but even more importantly, undermining patriotism and the idea of service, and "Where Have all the Flowers Gone" in 1955 is better understood in that light.
Of course, the Vietnam disaster was rocket fuel for their movement, but the song came before the first "adviser" stepped off the plane.
And now you know the rest of the story. Good day!
OK, thanks for that info.
When will THEY ever learn??
Should be, when will WE ever learn.
The left has been unbelievably successful in taking control of every single institution.
We could learn a ton from studying and copying how they did it.
Nope.
The anti-nuke people took the song as their own, all right, but in 1955 the fourth member of the club was still five years in the future and the only "proliferation" which had occurred was the Soviet bomb in 1949 which led Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs' execution in 1953.
Pete and the rest of the "Where Have all the Flowers Gone" singers certainly didn't object to proliferation as long as the Soviets were the ones doing the proliferating.
Fun fact: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" was included on Bernie Sanders's debut album "We Shall Overcome", released on cassette in 1987 before he departed for his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, which at the time had only four years to live.
For which we can thank William F. Buckley, National Review, the neocons and the Republican Party for destroying any possibility of a post-1945 American right.
You can't beat something with nothing.
Thank you for adding that detail.
excellent comparison
Stupid is as stupid does, said the philosopher.
There ya go again!
Clouding the issue with facts, common sense and logic!
Sheesh!
When will Republican voters ever learn that some progressives wear R jerseys?
Flimsey Grahamnesty and the rest of the open borders/amnesty Bush League Republicans ARE progressives, despite their R jersey camouflage.
When will they ever learn?
Either too late, or never.
It's true. To this day you can still see them driving around...
by themselves...
on nice, sunny days...
and they're still wearing diapers on their paranoid, bug-eyed faces.
“They don’t care if they are trusted or not. They have accumulated the power....that was their goal. “
Hopefully, the tide is changing and Americans are waking up. But the left will NEVER give up their gains. Expect complete violent anarchy as soon as the Roe decision is handed down (if it sends decision back to the States), as well as violence and mayhem leading up to and through the November elections.
The evil Demonicrats will stop at nothing to stay in power.
Pete Seeger stole that song from...get this...THE UKRAINE! LOL.
Pete wasn’t very orignal, and since he was completely adenda-driven, he had no problem stealing songs to further the “revolution”.
What have Democrats learned? Apparently
To keep power never let the people have it control them to retain their power to them communism and Marxism is a tool that keeps things in order.
Ever notice how many things they keep taking away from the people and the new rules for them to go by.
Comply or die
Maybe they don’t want to insult the Assistant DemocRATs? If they started doing that, people would suddenly realize that the GOPe IS the problem and not at all inclined to be part of the solution. They can’t allow that to happen, can they?
I have had my eye on Cornyn for a very long time and I can tell you in no uncertain terms that he is every bit the RINO that Songbird (McCain) could ever hope to be.
The sooner that Texas tosses Cornyn to the curb, the better.
That’s something that escaped the attention of the author of the article. It didn’t escape ours. :-)
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