I'm waiting for the replay of The Kent State Riots".
Posted on 10/30/2018 5:03:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
1968 was the most turbulent year in our lifetime. 79’ was second. 68 was settled when the voters elected a law and order Nixon. 80’ ended with Ronald Reagan settling things. I think this mid-term year will be the same for what’s been going on since 2009 with Republican acquiesence.
Not yet.
That’s exactly right. And not only were the young people personally afraid of being drafted and sent to war, they were the “baby boom” - meaning there was a whole lot of them, demographically speaking. They had just earned or were about to earn their political voice by virtue of turning 18, and feared personally for what they may be forced to do.
It’s not the same. And today’s youth have been raised on phamraceuticals to deal with their angst. You gotta find some amusement at the notion that 25% of youth exhibit or claim symptoms of PTSD at the notion of Trump’s victory. Truly they earn the word ‘unhinged’ if they allow all this noise to infect their view of themselves; and it’s got very little to do with Trump and more to do with the agitation and fear mongering in the chattering classes - the people who spread phobia with comments like “Trump is going to unleash nuclear war” etc. The chattering classes know better and are shameful in their nonstop assault on anything Trump and constantly blaming Trump, but the kids don’t have any perspective on elections or politics or world affairs.
The media and the Dems have gone way overboard in a naked attempt to grab power they haven’t earned and abused when they had it. They had it all in 2008 and frittered it away by deliberately and intentionally flaunting the will of the voters in starting in 2010. The voters came out to stop Obamacare by taking Congress away from the Dems and they pushed it through in a lame duck session anyway. It is one thing to have power and use the media to provide cover, it’s another thing and much harder to do to try to leverage the media and the media alone into power. But right now that’s all they have. They deserve to lose big next Tuesday. Maybe if they do they will change their tactics, but I doubt it. They don’t have anything else, no ideas, and lots of old people and foolish people vying for leadership. In part that’s because they fumbled and lost 2/3 of every state governorship, statehouse and are looking at a 56-58 seat deficit in the Senate next week. They don’t have a good bench of politicians to draw on. The field is wide open for a “Trump like” billionaire to step in and run over the Democratic primary in 2020.
ME? I was in THE BELLY OF THE BEAST ( Manhattan ) and not only saw far too much, up close and personal, but also lived quite close to the brownstone that the damned WEATHERMEN managed to blow up.
By accident, I came upon the likes of Abbey Hoffman and others, training the moronic followers and stupid kids, how to behave and what to do, some weeks prior to the Dem Convention in Chicago.
Just going for a walk, that summer, on a sunny weekend afternoon, could and often DID, turn into a vile confrontation, which was NOT anything I started or went looking for.
And no, things did NOT "quiet down" any, in the next ensuing years.
Radical leftism is far far more widespread especialy amongst under GenX aged
And far less well educated, even though they have sat in schools for a long time.
I wasn’t alive in ‘68 but my parents were married that year and my older brother and I were born before the next Presidential election. It was a horrible year from what my parents have told me. A year of terrible assassinations but also liberal media and college mob protests. My father was mobilized and on riot duty. Neighborhoods burnt and the signer of the Civil Rights Act and of the Great Society retired in disgrace.
Once everything settled down there was a 49 State GOP landslide in ‘72, a narrow GOP lost in ‘76 (winning 27 States), and landslide GOP wins in ‘80, ‘84 and ‘88 (winning 44, 49, and 40 States). It was a great time to grow up at least for me.
The last time around when the media and college left called for Revolution, sanity and a quiet family life at home won out. It wasn’t until Bill Clinton ran on Middle Class Values that the left won again by pretending to be something they are not.
In ‘68 the left exposed themselves for being against what most people really want. I hope and pray that is the case this time as well.
We’ll see November 7th
I was in the Marine Corps stationed at Camp Pendleton in 1968. The riots got so bad that all passes from the base to go to Los Angeles or San Diego Were cancelled.
You obviously KNOW exactly how “bad” things were back then!
Describing the radicals disrupting his every event, Humphrey said, these people "aren't just hecklers," but "highly disciplined, well-organized agitators. ... Some are anarchists and some of these groups are dedicated to destroying the Democratic Party and destroying the country."
...and now, they own the democrat party.
The FALN tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 at Blair House, shot up the House of Representatives in 1954, and, in 1975, blew up Fraunces Tavern in New York where Washington had bid his officers farewell....
I say we’ll be getting there in 2019-2020 when Trump is running and gets re-elected.
Gonna be loads of fun.
Good thing young people these days are out of shape and less educated. Back in ‘68, no dude was swinging a bike lock like a girl.
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