11-11-2021, 09:47 AM
Hintergrund's signature is, how shall I say, totally awesome.
And I call the Silent "The Cold War Bloody Shirt Generation," because their powerful survivors are behaving as if the Cold War is still going on - reflected in their vehement opposition to everything from health care reform (which they conflate with socialism, if not out-and-out communism) to taking meaningful action on climate change (after all, the first Earth Day fell on the same date as Lenin's would-have-been 100th birthday).
That the Silent have morphed into a superannuated version of the Gilded is, to quote 1960s-era Atlanta Constitution columnist Ralph McGill, one of the most melancholy stories of our time.
And I call the Silent "The Cold War Bloody Shirt Generation," because their powerful survivors are behaving as if the Cold War is still going on - reflected in their vehement opposition to everything from health care reform (which they conflate with socialism, if not out-and-out communism) to taking meaningful action on climate change (after all, the first Earth Day fell on the same date as Lenin's would-have-been 100th birthday).
That the Silent have morphed into a superannuated version of the Gilded is, to quote 1960s-era Atlanta Constitution columnist Ralph McGill, one of the most melancholy stories of our time.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892