This is hard for me. Born in 1953, 6 years after WWII, I grew up in a land of plenty buoyed by emerging from WWII with the New Deal in place, an infrastructure mostly unscathed, with business booming, and a thriving Middle Class.
Oh sure it was not all peaches and cream. The War on Civil Rights where people who insisted on equal rights were (and still are today murdered), the Communist scare where a Senate Committee led by a Republucan, insisted on rooting out Communists and lumping in anyone who was considered subversive to make their lives miserable.
Yes the Republicans used to hate Communists until their party was hijacked by a crooked dip shit in love with Putin and other strong men and his army of moronic bubbas, pseudo- patriotic, pseudo- Christian Imbeciles, who fell for the Big Con. He played them like a fiddle, but I digress.
In the Progressive 1960’s, the Democrats tried to fix the race problem. Some progress was made, a ton of money was thrown at our poor, and despite the Racist pronouncements of Gov George Wallace, a Southern firebrand, Southern Schools were forcibly integrated, and separate but equal, a bullshit standard was abandoned. President Lyndon Johnson lamented that Civil Rights as led by Democrats would turn the South Republican, and it did...and poverty was not eradicated.
So when anyone tells you it was the Democrats were racists, just remember it was the Southern Democrats who hated Lincoln (a Republican) who defeated them in the Civil War, yet they hated the idea of equal rights as orchestrated by Democrats for their former slaves even more, so most of them flipped to the GOP. Ironic huh?
Now it can be argued what the Nation had in the 1950-60s economy wise could not be sustained. But back then CEOs made xx times what an average worker, not xxxx. Then we hit the 80s were greed became good and then there was Ronald Reagan, the god of the Republican Party who today would be tossed out for being too Liberal, yes, I said liberal. He promoted the idea of cutting spending and taxes, but in the end Congress only cut taxes, and the GOP, the party of Fiscal Hawks started the US down the road of it’s first significant post WWII debt, and our debt has been growing ever since. Now it’s an insurmountable mountain of debt. Frankly I think we are screwed.
The 80s was also the time when the GOP transformed itself into a pack of sleazy self serving liars. Since that time, instead of honest policy debates, we now get character assassination of opponents to the GOP. I remember when Bill Clinton was being impeached for lying about his affair with a Monica Lewiski, Congressman Slimy Newt Gingrich who was on the side prosecuting Clinton, was banging his secretary in backseat of his car, while his wife lay dieing in the hospital, yet the GOP felt the moral standard that Clinton displayed with an assistant, justified him being removed from office. As you know, he was impeached, but not convicted.
Looking back on this event in light of Donald Trump has to be guffaw worthy, the utter self serving hypocracy of our self described most patriotic political party, who has now decided that US Treasury dollars grow on trees, that their arch enemy Russia is not so bad, and who cares if we have an immoral, incompetent, insecure, mentally ill peace of shit,, sociopath and crook sitting in the White House? Our Dummies like him and they elected me, so case closed.
So where does that leave us today? Maybe I’m just displaying the pessimism that comes with old age, but everything seem to be deteriorating as Greedy Bastards grab all they can for themselves, millions of jobs have been exported by the same greedy bastards, Automation is wholesale taking more jobs, Capitalism as we know it is strained and can’t support the populace at large. I believe there is more socialism in our future, and if it is sustainable and serves most of us, so be it.
So, what do you think?
Note: there maybe typos, I’ll fix them as I notice or they are pointed out.
Oh sure it was not all peaches and cream. The War on Civil Rights where people who insisted on equal rights were (and still are today murdered), the Communist scare where a Senate Committee led by a Republucan, insisted on rooting out Communists and lumping in anyone who was considered subversive to make their lives miserable.
Yes the Republicans used to hate Communists until their party was hijacked by a crooked dip shit in love with Putin and other strong men and his army of moronic bubbas, pseudo- patriotic, pseudo- Christian Imbeciles, who fell for the Big Con. He played them like a fiddle, but I digress.
In the Progressive 1960’s, the Democrats tried to fix the race problem. Some progress was made, a ton of money was thrown at our poor, and despite the Racist pronouncements of Gov George Wallace, a Southern firebrand, Southern Schools were forcibly integrated, and separate but equal, a bullshit standard was abandoned. President Lyndon Johnson lamented that Civil Rights as led by Democrats would turn the South Republican, and it did...and poverty was not eradicated.
So when anyone tells you it was the Democrats were racists, just remember it was the Southern Democrats who hated Lincoln (a Republican) who defeated them in the Civil War, yet they hated the idea of equal rights as orchestrated by Democrats for their former slaves even more, so most of them flipped to the GOP. Ironic huh?
Now it can be argued what the Nation had in the 1950-60s economy wise could not be sustained. But back then CEOs made xx times what an average worker, not xxxx. Then we hit the 80s were greed became good and then there was Ronald Reagan, the god of the Republican Party who today would be tossed out for being too Liberal, yes, I said liberal. He promoted the idea of cutting spending and taxes, but in the end Congress only cut taxes, and the GOP, the party of Fiscal Hawks started the US down the road of it’s first significant post WWII debt, and our debt has been growing ever since. Now it’s an insurmountable mountain of debt. Frankly I think we are screwed.
The 80s was also the time when the GOP transformed itself into a pack of sleazy self serving liars. Since that time, instead of honest policy debates, we now get character assassination of opponents to the GOP. I remember when Bill Clinton was being impeached for lying about his affair with a Monica Lewiski, Congressman Slimy Newt Gingrich who was on the side prosecuting Clinton, was banging his secretary in backseat of his car, while his wife lay dieing in the hospital, yet the GOP felt the moral standard that Clinton displayed with an assistant, justified him being removed from office. As you know, he was impeached, but not convicted.
Looking back on this event in light of Donald Trump has to be guffaw worthy, the utter self serving hypocracy of our self described most patriotic political party, who has now decided that US Treasury dollars grow on trees, that their arch enemy Russia is not so bad, and who cares if we have an immoral, incompetent, insecure, mentally ill peace of shit,, sociopath and crook sitting in the White House? Our Dummies like him and they elected me, so case closed.
So where does that leave us today? Maybe I’m just displaying the pessimism that comes with old age, but everything seem to be deteriorating as Greedy Bastards grab all they can for themselves, millions of jobs have been exported by the same greedy bastards, Automation is wholesale taking more jobs, Capitalism as we know it is strained and can’t support the populace at large. I believe there is more socialism in our future, and if it is sustainable and serves most of us, so be it.
So, what do you think?
- Will we find our way?
- Will we prevail?
- Willl our National Debt break us?
- Or are we screwed and have a revolution in out future?
Note: there maybe typos, I’ll fix them as I notice or they are pointed out.
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