Posted on 10/22/2019 4:28:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
I don’t know of any Democracy.
There is a Tripoli in Lebanon,
You just summarized Robert Bork's book, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah". Yours and Bork's assessment of America's downhill slide started with the Hippie generation (Boomers). The prosperous 50's led to materialism and parents allowed their kids to run wild. Many of those Hippies then became educators/politicians which amplified the meme of "Gimme Stuff".
The Dems are killing it. They are trying to exploit its weaknesses. Importing illegal immigrants to vote, for example.
Which was well-recognized by the Founding Fathers of the US, and the reason super-majorities are included throughout the Constitution. Democracies lead to large, unsatisfied minorities. "Super-majority" republics do not, they assure the opposite.
Bullbleep....hippies were never a majority of Boomers. Very vocal, yes. And hippies are still around (and have been since their origination)...so they are not a "generational thang".
The quality of democracy will never exceed the quality of the press.
I didn't mean to infer all Boomers were hippies, of course not. However, they were more than "vocal", Their constant protest activities increasingly caused our withdrawal from VN that wasted 58,000 American lives when we were actually winning.
Don't believe me, research General Giap's (NVN head general) memoirs. He was ready to give up. But no, the hippies' constant protesting encouraged him to fight on, not to mention Walter Cronkike's erroneous claim we lost the Tet Offensive. WRONG!
Read Robert Bork's book and he lays it out well how they were the beginning of the downhill slide into socialism and immorality. I was there and saw it first hand, and even visited a hippie commune that went defunct soon after because many did want to pull their weight, but expected the same benefits. Sound familiar?
I've watched how they have slowly passed on their, "if it feels good, do it" and "gimmedat" mentality to other generations, through our academic, political, media, and cultural institutions. Surely, you can't disagree with that.
I was there too, though I never visited a commune. I was never tempted to do so, as I was born conservative and got more so as I aged.
"Surely, you can't disagree with that."
Actually, I can. What you fail to understand is that all of those "memes" were started by and initially funded by the KGB, from the anti-nuclear movement, to the environmental movement, to the "hippie movement", and on and on. Unfortunately, the KGB's evil seeds fell into fertile soil and grew exceedingly well, surviving the demise of their originators. None of these ideas sprang from native American thought.
KGB? You actually believe that nonsense? I was at ground central of the hippie movement in California. I highly doubt you have similar experiences. The hippies sprang from their need for immediate self-gratification and passed it on. However, some were also enamored with the writings of Karl Marx, but most just wanted "free love". We're done, don't bother to reply - I won't answer.
Yes, I do, given that direct proof was found in KGB files during the period of Yeltsin's governance of the former Soviet Union. Ancillary proof came from the East German Stasi files after reunification of the Germanies.
"We're done, don't bother to reply - I won't answer.
In other words, don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up.
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