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The owner had a chance to politely voice his views to her and blew it.
And showed the sheer arrogance and hatred of the left.
I was maybe 9 and carter came on the TV. My father called me in and said “that’s the president of the US! We stand to salute him”
My father HATED Carter. He HATED liberals. He was born in 1920 and fought in WWII and was savagely opposed to that guy who played Lou Grant, who was a liberal.
But he came from Italy, LOVED his new country (he came young) and respected the office like no other person I met.
I still don’t get it lol. He HATED Carter.
Your father hated Carter however he respected the office. Easy for me to understand.
My beloved mother was a "white glove GOPer", who was mortified, when I said that we needed to fight back; to take the damned white gloves off and take a stand against the filthy, stinking COMMIES and this was in the 1960s. I was told that "No, we don't do that"; however, I did and others ( especially the parents of the brain dead hippies and wannabes and those who joined SDS, etc. could have and should have stopped this back then! We're in this mess, today, because they didn't.
Some years ago President Obama came to my previous hometown deep in red territory. He stopped for lunch at a local restaurant. The owner is a rock-ribbed conservative. But he made sure Obama and his entourage were as well fed and serviced as any other customer, without exception.
He may have despised Obama as a person but the office itself is something else.
Your father hated the man, but loved the Office of the Presidency, IMO
“I still don’t get it lol. He HATED Carter.”
Don’t we all.
Respect the rank, if not the man. Essential for unit cohesion, rapid response to orders is crucial to survival in combat.
Decisive response to a threat, even if it is the wrong response, increases the odds of survival and victory on the battlefield. Confusion and inaction, not so much.