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"...I feel the the WWII heroes (”The Greatest Generation”) came home and spoiled their kids rottenly to be the sixties brats and hippies..." You know, I used to believe that as well; being the son of a WWII Airborne combat vet who was wounded during the Ardennes, came home from the war, worked his ass off, and died very young, I always wondered what the hell happened. My oldest sister (b. 1952) was one of those hippie flower children, and still is very liberal to this day (although recovering...albeit slowy) and I NEVER figured out where that came from. After doing a lot of research over the years, though, I've changed my thoughts on it... Maybe "spoiled rotten" isn't the right word. I think is was more like lack of attention to what was really going on with the people who were teaching their children - in school, in music, and in the culture at large. We had a Marxist cultural revolution going on, right under folks' noses. I think these American men of that generation were just working their asses off and trusting in "the system" to teach their kids the way THEY were taught back in the day - you know, to be good American citizens, to love their country the way THEY loved their country, and become something more than they ever had a chance to become. To want and live the American Dream and have a shot at "the Good Life" - something that the Great Depression had deprived the vast majority of them of and shaped their thinking. I seriously don't think they counted on the tenacity and the depth of the American Communist Insurgency that was going on - and it was AIMED directly at their kids - NOT at them. The left KNEW that these guys could and would destroy them in a heartbeat if the opportunity presented itself. They're busy trying to rebuild lives, earn a living, support the family - all the things we do every day that direct ua away from political machinations and intrigue; they sent their kids to school, not realizing WHO was now teaching their kids, and WHAT they were teaching them. If there is blame/fault to be laid, maybe it's just that they were too trusting in a system that was being slowly and deliberately undermined from within, while they were fighting a different manifestation of it overseas. I have to believe, however, that the folks of those days KNEW what FDRoosevelt was and who he associated with; if I'm not mistaken, his first VP, Henry Wallace, was a dedicated socialist (communist), his aide ALger Hiss was another one, and he surrounded himself with these people as well. But the prevailing attitude was "Hey, they're Democrats...they're for Us Little Guys... they're AMERICANS, like us!" You can see it now, to this day, in the elder folks who STILL pull the D lever without a moment's hesitation. The Dems have been complicit in this for a very long time, and they were/are never, ever held accountable. Maybe someday, they'll have a "Day of Reckoning" when the people of this country wake up and see exactly the traitorous, seditious manner in which these people have behaved. One can "hope", after all.... My old man was a great, proud American patriot, full of lots of little holes from Krupp-made steel splinters and full of love for God, his country, his family, and his flag. I remember him waking in the morning, going to work, then coming home briefly to eat before to going to his SECOND job. He died young from complications due to stroke. Just my thoughts on it.