Posted on 04/28/2025 5:03:40 PM PDT by rey
This is interesting. This is a 1954 radio show. At the 17:30 mark they discuss socialism, communism, collectivism, fascism, free enterprise, and government enterprise. It’s a very different conversation than would be had today.
It’s also interesting to consider why they would do this on such a show. In 1954, the McCarthy hearings took place, Vietnam split into communist north and republican south, and the Soviets began launching large ICBMs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSIgMDlxL4
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That is some wholesome grown-up stuff there, it was America when it was filled with the American people and pre-feminism.
The Russians launched the world’s first ICBM in 1957.
Interestingly for me at least, 1954 was the year that my Dad hired on with General Electric in the computer room at the Medium Transformer Division in Rome, GA.
Sorry, they had successful static tests in 1954
...and yet the so-called “Greatest Generation” gave us the Hippies, who have literally DESTROYED this country, in many, many, ways. I guess the “Greatest Generation” was simply too busy ‘making money’ to notice what was being done to their kids by the Marxists.
It was a purposeful application by the CIA of sex drugs and rock and roll. I don’t care if anyone believes this or not. It is simply true that the CIA and British Intelligence pushed the music and the sex drugs and rock and roll that formed the hippies.
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