11-10-2016, 05:23 PM
(11-10-2016, 05:04 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You should become a Marxist. You have much more in common with them belief and attitude wise. Plus, it would be easier for me to understand your positions and the origin of your political beliefs. To me, you are the one who is clinging to the old industrial age values of your parents time. You know, the white working class values associated with your childhood that we blew off as being irrelevant to our time.
I'm not sure of his parents generation, but I'm guessing the values of his parents were the values of the time when America was Great. I don't think the energy and focus of the GIs was sustainable. If they saw a challenge, they would attack it, and there are real limits with what can be done with tax and spend. We found those limits in the 1970s. We decided not to push the limits, and that decision was the end of our being great.
I spent much of my life under the selfish hedonistic values of the unravelling. My GI parents left me with a notion that one must pay one's dues, one must put in the work. I don't claim the sort of greatness the GI veterans might be honored for, but I earned my share of the selfish pleasure of the unravelling.
As I see it, the unravelling was a vacation, a pause in the work ethic that has driven America forward. I still don't feel we'll be able to extend the vacation indefinitely.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.