Posted on 07/27/2022 7:21:15 AM PDT by Borges
Well, I made it. I am 100 years old today. I wake up every morning grateful to be alive.
Reaching my own personal centennial is cause for a bit of reflection on my first century — and on what the next century will bring for the people and country I love. To be honest, I’m a bit worried that I may be in better shape than our democracy is.
I was deeply troubled by the attack on Congress on Jan. 6, 2021 — by supporters of former President Donald Trump attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Those concerns have only grown with every revelation about just how far Mr. Trump was willing to go to stay in office after being rejected by voters — and about his ongoing efforts to install loyalists in positions with the power to sway future elections.
I don’t take the threat of authoritarianism lightly. As a young man, I dropped out of college when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. I flew more than 50 missions in a B-17 bomber to defeat Fascism consuming Europe. I am a flag-waving believer in truth, justice and the American way, and I don’t understand how so many people who call themselves patriots can support efforts to undermine our democracy and our Constitution. It is alarming.
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Just because you make it to 100 doesn’t mean you have wisdom. This guy just proves what a fool he is.
Why don’t you respond to the allegations of your staff that you’re racist and only used race to further your career, Norman?
Only an idiot who reads the New Yawk Slimes would bother reading crap written by Norman Lear. America’s oldest raging commie lib.
If this guy can’t see what a sham this Jan 6th committee is, then he hasn’t learned much in 100 years.
A deeply dishonest man. He is not the man he portrays himself to be.
When have fascists/authoritarians protested FOR rule of law?
Which Branches of State Government select electors per the constitution?
If an “Elector” is selected by the state’s executive or judiciary...are they an Elector?
What is the duty of the vice president to pretend they are electors?
Who’s’”democracy”
Somebody should tell him we’re a republic, not a democracy.
A 100 years on and the man is still wearing blinkers.
New invention: super patriot Norman Lear.
Taqiyya for the revolution.
What a coincidence! I woke up this morning hoping that Norman Lear WASN’T still alive…
Always thought the real Hollywood hates Trump is simple jealousy. He’s succeeded in business,entertainment and politics while they’ve only had a bit of entertainment success. It kills them.
” I was deeply troubled by the attack on Congress on Jan. 6, 2021 — by supporters of former President Donald Trump attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.”
STOP RIGHT THERE, you old fool. Your mind for reasoning is atrophied. Either because of your advanced age or that you are a Liberal or that you’ve always been this STUPID!
OH! It was Norman Lear!
OMG, I called it without realizing WHO wrote it.
Now that I do, ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Deeply troubled by the January 6 “attacks”
I wonder how he feels about all the crime and violence in democratic controlled cities?
Hey hypocrite why doesn’t that trouble you?
100 and still asleep.
He’s a meathead.
The Russian revolution was 1917. Commies have been around for 105 years, plenty long enough for this guy.
I always remember the Christmas 1976 episode in which a friend (who dodged the draft) of Mike’s comes to have dinner with the Bunkers and a friend of Archie’s who lost a son in Vietnam. And there was Mike lecturing to Archie about why Archie could not admit that it was wrong to be in Vietnam to begin with. While over in Southeast Asia at that time, Cambodia had it’s killing fields and reeducation camps and the Hanoi government in Vietnam did similar things to it’s populace, all because the Americans were no longer there since the Mike Stivics were listened to. That episode in particular didn’t age well, didn’t it?
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