Posted on 07/08/2016 7:35:06 AM PDT by 6ft2inhighheelshoes
The worst year in modern American history was unquestionably 1968, which in its first six months included the Tet Offensive, LBJ's surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the subsequent riots that destroyed the cores of many American cities including, fatally, Detroit; and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles.
Still to come were the riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago, the "Black Power" salutes by American athletes at the Olympics in Mexico City, Richard Nixon's razor-thin victory over Hubert Humphrey in an election that saw a third-party candidate, George Wallace (a former racist Democrat) garner 13.5% of the popular vote as he ran against the "pointy-headed intellectuals" in Washington, and widespread student protests against the military draft.
Which brings us to 2016.
The pace of recent events, from the outre presidential election, the "exoneration" of career criminal Hillary Clinton by the FBI, and the shooting of multiple police officers in Dallas during a "Black Lives Matter" protest, is reminiscent of '68; the country barely had time to process one enormity when the next once occurred. Yeats' famous stanzas from his poem, "The Second Coming," are as true today as they were then:
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand...
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
As then, so now. The murders in Dallas should come as a surprise to exactly nobody, since this is the end point those supporting the BLM movement have tacitly -- or openly -- encouraged. The cry of "off the pigs" has been with us since Bill Ayers (some guy in Barack Obama's neighborhood, never heard of him) was a pup. The Democrats, who have finally come out of the closet as the first openly anti-American party in American history, are now planning to disrupt the Republican convention later this month in Cleveland. We haven't had any political assassinations yet, but give the violent Left time: they're just warming up.
What is happening to the country? For those born after the pivotal year of 1968, it's obviously a complete mystery. The clueless and increasingly disgraceful #neverTrumpumpkins continue to insist on a restoration of their inherited and almost entirely unearned "conservative principles," incapable of understanding that not only is Edmund Burke dead, but so are Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Ronald Reagan. What were viable policy choices then, they continue to mistake as "timeless principles," heedless that things like limited government and lower taxes are not only doomed to failure at the ballot box, but are also not universal solvents. In their jejune inflexibility, they are an embarrassment to genuine conservatism, which must be rooted in foundational Western cultural principles.
Political solutions devoted to policy arise from a time and place and are generally specific to that era. In our solipsistic age, we insist on seeing the past through the lens of our ideology, cocksure that we are right and they were wrong. This malevolent stupidity is behind the attacks on "whiteness," on the actions and social attitudes of people who lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago; it also explains the insistence on "climate change" -- if we can't impose our fantasies and shibboleths upon future generations, what good are we? The world was born with us.
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The fact is, 1968 and 2016 are directly linked, in a way that the punditos (those born after 1968) and small children cannot possibly understand: this is a Baby Boomer war and it won't end until all of us Boomers are senile, in Florida nursing homes, or dead.
For the truth is, we hate, despise and loathe each other and always have. From the crowded classrooms of the 1950s through the scrambling competition for colleges in the 1960s to our entry into the job markets in the 1970s, we have jostled, bumped and collided with our coevals at every step. The Vietnam War split us along socio-economic lines, with college students largely exempt from the draft as a matter of national policy.
We took over the universities and the media (my own peronal and professional relationships with many well-known figures in the national media go back more than four decades), and we hired among the next generation those bright young things who most reminded us of ourselves. As pawns in the Cold War (which was being fought by our parents' generation), we largely tolerated the communist penetration of the idealistic Left, especially targeting the black leaders around King (and King himself) and infiltrating the student movements via people like Ayers. As Don Surber noted today:
Make no mistake, this is the street battle that Bill Ayers envisioned in "Prairie Fire," the hateful, anti-American manifesto that he co-authored and used to rationalize terrorism in the 1970s, long after the Vietnam War ended. The book was dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan and others. From Prairie Fire:
Our job is to tap the discontent seething in many sectors of the population, to find allies everywhere people are hungry or angry, to mobilize poor and working people against imperialism. We have an urgent responsibility: to destroy imperialism from within in order to help free the world and ourselves from its grasp. Our final goal is the destruction of imperialism, the seizure of power, and the creation of socialism. Our strategy for this stage of the struggle is to organize the oppressed people of the imperial nation itself to join with the colonies in the attack on imperialism. This process of attacking and weakening imperialism involves the defeat of all kinds of national chauvinism and arrogance; this is a precondition to our fight for socialism. People like Ayers and his partner, Bernarndine Dohrn, however, were not deluded, well-intentioned naifs: they were and remain devoted to the destruction of the country as founded, and determined to cause enough Helter-Skelter chaos to bring about the country they envison. By their lights, they are "patriots," but by ours, they are simply evil. Like Shi'ite Muslims, who seek to call forth the End Times in order to create conditions ripe for the re-appearance of the Mahdi, the Left wishes to Cloward-Piven the nation to death, collapse the system and superimpose its vision of socialism; no wonder the Left and Islam have formed an unholy alliance akin to the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. They will stay on the same side until one (Islam) double-crosses the other (the Eloi Left). And then the butchery will really begin.
The difference between today and 1968, however, is that the American government is on the side of the radicals; nothing that is happening now is happening by chance. President Obama, the first anti-American president, has expressly set in motion many of the conflicts besetting us, including exacerbating racial tensions whenever he gets the chance. The astounding, in-your-face corruption of the political process has given us the unholy Hillary Clinton -- the very embodiment of that corruption -- and her antithesis, Donald Trump. Polls show that Americans have completely lost faith in the institutions of government; the police are reeling from the Ferguson Effect, and yesterday events in Dallas are only likely to worsen things.
All of this is meant to push, prod and provoke a reaction from a long-suffering populace that is seeing itself marginalized, condemned and demographically replaced by a gang of sneering thugs -- bastard children of Rousseau -- whose intentions have been plain since 1968, when the first rocks flew in Chicago. The question is: what, if anything, are we going to do about it?
The Rude Beast has occupied Washington, and now it's coming for you.
It’s complete BS demonizing “Baby Boomers”. I’m on the tail end of the Baby Boom and I was 7 years old in 1968.
Sure, there were lots of older BBers protesting especially against the draft in that timeframe, but they weren’t nearly running the world.
And BBers don’t have any special animus toward each other. Arguably they were more tolerant of other races and ethnicities, on average, than any previous American generations.
It’s not just the ghetto kids — it’s also the middle-class kids on campuses, the spawn of liberal parents, who are also destroying the country.
All of them — plus ISIS people — are cut from the same cloth: they’re a bunch of narcissists who feel entitled & diminished. They seem angry at truth, or something. Essentially they want to do their own thing & have everyone cater to them.
In ‘68 there were still enough conservatives around to keep things in check. Now, the younger generation are so stunted by PC rhetoric that I worry about anarchy. These people couldn’t run a grocery store, let alone a country.
And the aging, unrepentant terrorist / former Commie mentor to our current pResident -- William (Bill) Ayers -- no doubt is sitting in front of his television right now with a semi-flaccid erection.
We need to call them BLT:
BLACK
LYING
TERRORISTS
Is the Media eagerly awaits trouble at the RNC July 18-21 in Cleveland protesting Trump
but will the trouble be at the DNC
July 25-28 in Philadelphia, just like Chicago
bkmrk
Exactly. The white college hippies are to blame too. A lot of them look like a bunch of emasculated freaks. You see it in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiADgGSGHiM
Common Vietnam War Myths Dispelled:
Myth: Common belief is that most Vietnam veterans were drafted.
Fact: 2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted. Approximately 70% of those killed in Vietnam were volunteers.
Myth: The media have reported that suicides among Vietnam veterans range from 50,000 to 100,000 – 6 to 11 times the non-Vietnam veteran population.
Fact: Mortality studies show that 9,000 is a better estimate. “The CDC Vietnam Experience Study Mortality Assessment showed that during the first 5 years after discharge, deaths from suicide were 1.7 times more likely among Vietnam veterans than non-Vietnam veterans. After that initial post-service period, Vietnam veterans were no more likely to die from suicide than non-Vietnam veterans. In fact, after the 5-year post-service period, the rate of suicides is less in the Vietnam veterans’ group.
Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.
Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book “All That We Can Be,” said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam “and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war.”
Myth: Common belief is that the war was fought largely by the poor and uneducated.
Fact: Servicemen who went to Vietnam from well-to-do areas had a slightly elevated risk of dying because they were more likely to be pilots or infantry officers. Vietnam Veterans were the best educated forces our nation had ever sent into combat. 79% had a high school education or better.
Myth: The common belief is the average age of an infantryman fighting in Vietnam was 19.
Fact: Assuming KIAs accurately represented age groups serving in Vietnam, the average age of an infantryman (MOS 11B) serving in Vietnam to be 19 years old is a myth, it is actually 22. None of the enlisted grades have an average age of less than 20. The average man who fought in World War II was 26 years of age.
Sure, there were lots of older BBers protesting especially against the draft in that timeframe, but they weren’t nearly running the world.
And BBers don’t have any special animus toward each other. Arguably they were more tolerant of other races and ethnicities, on average, than any previous American generations.
In '68 I was 14 going on 15, and not in control of much at all other than my homework.
All will be right when the faggot Mooselimb is out on the street. Free at last; FREE at LAST. Good riddance O’faggot......
1968 was bad. Real bad. I dropped my single action revolver for a 13 shot Browning Hi-power.
Ever try to load a single action revolver in a bad part of town while driving a standard shift truck? Not enough hands.
1968. When SOUL BROTHER signs were supposed to protect you from rioters.
Others had THIS HOUSE IS NOT ARMED signs. That did not last long.
Politicians were trying to ban the “evil” 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifle and small foreign made handguns, and the SCOTUS could not cease from making real bad rulings in favor of the lawless which made things even worse.
Obama renews gun control push after ‘senseless’ Dallas murders
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/08/obama-renews-gun-control-push-after-senseless-dallas-murders.html
“...We also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic, and in the days ahead we’re going to have to consider those realities as well,” Obama said.
Prayers and condolences to all of the families who are so thoroughly devastated by the horrors we are all watching take place in our country — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 8, 2016
The attack on police officers in Dallas last night is horrifying and despicable. We must as a nation stand against violence of all kinds. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 8, 2016
I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters [sic], for their families & all who serve with them. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 8, 2016
I was 21 in 1968 and joined the Marines a year later. And you are correct. It is not 1968 again.
Which generation allowed this to prosper? Which generation of “men” where too busy watching football and obsessing over their 401Ks to pay attention to what was going on around them? The generation that couldn’t (wouldn’t?) control their wives or their kids. The generation that put 2 cars in the driveway and 4 bedrooms to sleep in while they handed the kids over to the state. Civic responsibility? Giving half a shit? Not even close.
What generation raised such nihilistic people? The Greatest Generation. I think not.
LIBTARDISM:
The collectivism and determinism of libtardism creates, promotes, and exploits divisiveness, which leads to hatred, and the desire to kill and destroy.
I hope it wasn't a Colt.
Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.
Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book “All That We Can Be,” said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam “and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war.”
When I told my now ex-girlfriend this fact, she challenged me. She said that “Everybody knows that more Blacks were Killed than Whites”.
I said, “look it up”
She did. When she found the truth?
She got extremely agitated and called me an A88hole.
From that moment on, I took virtually every opportunity I could to send her into a state of Cognitive Dissonance just to watch her physical and emotional reactions. You could see her body language and facial expressions go through these uncontrolled contortions and twitches. Then came the wicked verbal attacks and her physically attacking me.
Maybe I am an A88hole.
But, this is what we are dealing with on the Left.
They will do whatever it takes to avoid having their worldview undermined by the truth.
It was a cheap foreign SAA. I also had a COLT .45 peacemaker but it was no good as it kept breaking the cylinder stops (bolt).
The people that led the movement in the 60's are old enough that they are concerned about their 401-k's and retirement funds. They're OK with supporting gay rights, abortion, and anything else that doesn't add risk to their portfolio, but they won't be very supportive of rioting and destruction.
Maybe Obama is OK with anarchy. He is now high enough up the food chain and has free security for life.
However, the upper middle class aging hippies will not be behind him. This is an opportunity to get a new silent majority on our side.
“outre”? “jejune”? “Rousseau”?
C’mon, man. Who are we trying to impress?
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