Posted on 06/03/2024 4:48:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A single generation has broken apart the great chain of American civilizational continuance.
Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.”
Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends its inheritance while neither appreciating nor replenishing it—if not ridiculing those who sacrificed so much to provide it.
Such is the noxious epitaph of the Baby Boomer generation that is now passing after a half-century of preeminence and whose Jacobin agendas have nearly wrecked the nation they inherited.
In contrast to them, eighty years ago this week, the Allied powers of World War II—chiefly the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada—landed on five Normandy beaches to begin what Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary forces, would call the great “crusade” to liberate Western Europe from four years of brutal Nazi occupation.
The plan was to land within a few hours and in stormy weather well over 150,000 Americans, British, and Canadians on the Atlantic Coast beaches of France, where they were to charge directly into the fire of tens of thousands of enemy troops. They were to charge uphill in the sand while being fired upon by entrenched German troops occupying the hills above. From there, the beachhead was to serve as the launching pad for two million more troops, who were to somehow drive eastward through France and into Germany to end the war and the devastation the Third Reich had inflicted on the world.
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Today our Deep State seems like the enemies we fought in the past.
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Ah, yes. Blame the beeewwwwwwmers for everything. /sarc
Seems like?
Ridiculous. This has happened over the last several generations. Now, at the quickening, it’s not actually mostly Boomers in charge. Not that Boomers have been any great shakes, mind you.
Victor swings and misses once again.
Hey Vic! Take a look down between your water skis ... you'll see a shark.
Bkmk
As in resembles.
Remind me again who allowed many Nazis to “escape” to this country and pollute our various institutions.
When my got generation got its chance, we put Bill and Hill in the White House.
Yes, we boomers are responsible for a great deal of this trouble. It started with participation awards and obscene levels of national.
Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends its inheritance while neither appreciating nor replenishing it—if not ridiculing those who sacrificed so much to provide it.
Excellent insights from VDH.
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Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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I agree. And I’m a boomer.
They were subsumed by the corrupt Leftists and their pro-enemy propaganda, and we ended up with weak and venal leaders from that generation.
Those Boomers who fought with us were the best of that generation but there weren't enough of us.
“Some” boomers are responsible. Why not say reality?...the leftist boomers are responsible (as well as all leftists of any generation).
Odd that Victor Davis Hanson never mentioned the socialists and communists that have infiltrated all the actions taken above.
F you VDH.
And now they’re running the country.
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