06-12-2016, 05:08 PM
(06-12-2016, 04:49 PM)Mikebert Wrote:(05-19-2016, 08:13 PM)Kinser Wrote: Vets have never had it easy except perhaps for the GIs.
How do you know they had it easy? Maybe they simply weren't spoiled like the younger gens. Or maybe, just maybe, the New Dealers you disparage so much got a few things right.
I knew dozens of GIs, and I would not describe them as pampered through adolescence unless they were born into rich families. If they had life easy at any time, they made it easy for themselves.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
