What did these men do?
Wilson - WW1 and the failure of the league of nations
FDR - Depened the Great Depression, knew in advance the attack of Pearl Harbor and allowed the butchering to happen, not to mention destroying the constitution with his failed socialist programs.
Truman - Korean War and escalation of the Cold War.
Stevenson - Well he is the only Democrap I will ever respect....because he lost and never tasted power!
End analysis, all Democraps are failures who need liberal historians to make them into something that they never were or could be....when they aren't stealing other peoples quotations from other writings....ask Doris!
Just a bit of trivia...
The line of Kennedy's day went, "How can we beat the Russians if we still have poverty, segregation, poor roads and schools, etc." Many were convinced at the time.
Higgs has an interesting argument, but I don't entirely buy it. There were liberals like Woodrow Wilson before the Cold War. Reagan was a great Cold Warrior but no liberal. Europe saw its welfare state increase most after national defense concerns became less important. But Brands does suggest that another war could bring back liberalism and statism. I don't know if he put that in after 911 or he was a prophet.
Liberalism had a lot to do with the prospect of vast reserves of wealth that could be tapped by government. Liberal policies sop up that surplus very quickly and when those reserves are gone, liberalism declines. It's a bit like that in non-material terms, abstemious and self-denying behavior creates a secure environment. People born into that environment want to experiment and experience and tear down old institutions and remake society. When the damage is done, social and cultural liberalism recedes.
The problem for the future is that the government now, like those during previous wars, will make a lot of claims and promises that liberals will feel we have to make good on. Patriotism is a great thing, but as in JFK's day or Wilson's or FDR's, it does tend to bring some support for government interventionism in its wake, because when we sign on to win the war, liberals will always claim that we put our signature on other promises.
Maybe we could try Lloyd's of London...
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At least not for a while anyway.
I remember us riding our bikes toward home hollering, "Yea, Old Kennedy is dead!" In those parts Kennedy was not liked in the least. Of course when we reached home and our parents heard us cheering, they stopped us and told us that it was not appropriate to be happy when someone got killed, even if it was someone as bad as Kennedy.
I have never heard anyone else relate a tale like this. All us kids knew was that our parents hated him and reviled him loudly. I remember hushing up because I didn't want a spanking but it seemed hypocritical at the time. It took a while to understand. some oral history from parsy.
In truth, Kennedy didn't do bupkus, and he led the charge toward immorality in the White House, a socialist answer to every problem, and the creation of a New Aristocracy in a supposedly classless society. If he's the best the Democrats have to claim, they are indeed a sorry, desperate lot.
Having lived through the crisis, I remember thinking to myself "This is IT", what we had been preparing for for years, then, nothing.
The funny thing was, on the weekend after JFK was assasinated, I happened to be out at the range (I had a beautiful 1903A3 Springfield at that time, wish I had never sold it). Someone produced a Carcano, and everyone tried to get 3 shots in (at 100 yards) in the time frame that all the news channels were talking about. Nobody REALLY succeeded, so we figured that was BS from the start. We were all chipping in to purchase ammunition, and making runs to a sporting goods store that actually had some in stock. After a while, someone felt that it was somehow disrespectful to be doing this, and closed the range down, I believe, for 3 days.
Since nobody from my generation forgets where they were when JFK was shot, the memory of the day after is sharp as well. The memory of going out to the range, with an almost continuous downpour of rain,that Saturday morning, trying to get 3 shots out, with an unfamiliar firearm (at that time) with someone timing sticks with me to this day (I was 17 at the time).
After all these years, and with a lot of reading, the whole picture of the JFK administration looks a lot different than we remember. It is scary, to realize that most of the socialist policies and leftist tendencies in government today, got their start during JFK's watch. What is remembered is the ABSOLUTE SILENCE after High School was dismissed and the respect in which he was held. What is true is that, when all is said and done, if JFK hadn't happened, we wouldn't have the liberal problem we do today.
Keep the Faith for Freedom
MAY GOD BLESS AND PROTECT THIS HONORABLE REPUBLIC
Greg