And I'm pretty sure more than half of America would be glad and enabled if aforesaid vets DID take a crack at cleaning up our government.
Remember ... they fought regimes ...not men ... it's just that men stood in the way of getting at the regime.
“I’m pretty sure any D-Day survivors have no idea what you just said, and would pass you off as a long hair intellectual that doesn’t know ...
... more than half of America would be glad and enabled if aforesaid vets DID take a crack at cleaning up ... “
knarf deserves thanks for providing levity, however unintentional. Laughing aloud is not heard much around here, these days.
Apologies to forum members for exceeding their ever-shortening attention spans. Abbreviated version follows:
American “exceptionalism” contains too much self-congratulation and too much navel-gazing.
America was never so perfect that we were justified in “staying out of it” in 1914-17. Less justification in the 1930s, when Version 2.0 came down on everyone’s heads. We were unpardonably self-regarding, oh-so-jealous of rights and oh-so-certain of our protected status, that we deluded ourselves that “staying out” was possible - against all previous evidence. Early intervention - support for allies - might have been decisive. At less cost. And less sorrow.
And we failed to stay out, anyway. Hence the D-Day anniversaries. And the victory celebrations, every decade. I’ve assisted in putting on some of the very largest, and they are undeniably moving.
The “Greatest Generation” (a moniker for which Tom Brokaw deserves vilification, not praise or money) fought well, but how long can battlefield success excuse subsequent (and ongoing) failures? Something less than abject hero-worship might be in order for veterans who came home and voted in so many Left/Liberals, decade after decade. And GGers alone bear responsibility - rather a weighty responsibility, I’d say - for birthing and rearing the Baby Boomers, a cohort who may yet succeed in undoing the Republic.
As for the names knarf apparently failed to recognize, forum members had better study up. If I were the betting sort, I’d put money on the proposition that no one here knows who Edmund Burke or Horace Walpole were, either.