Posted on 11/02/2018 8:01:39 AM PDT by Borges
I guess we’ll know if the Left turns violent over Tuesday’s result.
Rather interesting that the label the Synagogue shooter as a “racist”.
Yes, becaause THEY have had 50 years to turn our children against us and to embrace Marxism.
My copies of The Objectivist which includes the years 1968 - 1971 includes many statements about the civil war in America
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Is This Worse Than ‘68?
Townhall.com ^ | October 30, 2018 | Pat Buchanan
Posted on 10/30/2018, 8:03:24 PM by Kaslin
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701376/posts
Happy Birthday Pat! After the staggering losses the RATs will suffer next week, expect bombings, assaults and verbal harassment to increase.
The press is worse now..there were riots in 1968..
“THEY have had 50 years to turn our children against us and to embrace Marxism.”
YES! So true.
Our pubic schools have been anti-God, anti-America, anti-capitalist, pro-homo, pro-abortion, pro-socialist indoctrination centers since then.
Same for our MSM and more recently social media.
There are many aimless, angry young men (and now angry young women) looking for a fight.
Around that time the ambush attacks on police began too. Black Panthers; Black liberation Army and a few others claimed credit.
A huge loss for the Left was the fall of the USSR in 1991. Their last major hurrah were the Gulf War protests earlier that year.
Their funding now comes from Soros rather than the Soviets, but there isn’t a single socialist society they can point to as superior to ours, that doesn’t have glaring faults of its own.
No Vietnam War and world communist movement this time, either. The only dangerous world movement now is Islam.
Are we in worse times than 1968?
It’s like late Sept.1987 .......
Proud to have voted for Pat over the globalist GHW Bush in the primary.
Yes, me too, and I am sorry that I did not vote for him against GWB in 2000 too.
Foolishness
Pat was never more than a wannabe
Much worse. The details aren’t the best measure.
In 1968, liberals and conservatives agreed on most principles (still true today but very few liberals are involved/influential in politics or media now). No matter how much we disagreed on application of those principles, party leaders in 1968 could, if/when they wanted, go back to principles and and move forward. And they could explain things to the governed and get our consent. And the media would report in good faith on the good faith negotiations/compromises/way-forward.
We have no agreed on principles today. R & D leaders can’t find a way forward on anything because there’s no common starting point (principles, constitution, laws, etc). If leaders were to come to agreement on principles, they wouldn’t be able to get consent from a large percentage of the country. Much of the media would attack anything that doesn’t involve a complete change in principles.
Unlike liberals, progressives, BLM, ANTIFA, and other leftist groups do not accept the principles our country was founded on. They’ve also redefined language to a point we can’t even understand each other to discuss a way to agree on a starting point for fixing things. And they’ve accepted that incivility and violence are acceptable in order to move their ideas forward. Some nuts on the right also accept violence but conservative leaders are not advocating violence and large groups of conservatives are not turning into violent mobs the way left groups do.
The principle of “consent of the governed” is one example we’ve lost. Neither party cares about that principle. And, just as bad, a large percentage of the population will not consent to the elected government simply because it was the wrong party, not because of any specific actions or policies.
No matter how bad 1968 was, there was a way forward. We can’t even talk, much less agree to starting principles and move forward on disagreements. And violence is accepted as a principle by the left.
The Left today isn’t just opposed to whatever national founding principles we have shared. They are anti-Western. Even supposedly sacrosanct touchstones like Renaissance humanism, the Enlightenment, the scientific method etc. are seen as sexist and gendered movements based on colonial oppression. There is video of a press conference at some university where a woman claimed Newton’s ideas about gravitation could not be trusted because he had never been to Africa.
Yes, pretty good analysis. in 1968 (I was graduating from high school) the times were way more tumultuous than they are now.
The times are not worse but the hate is worse and the incivility is far worse.
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