09-03-2017, 10:32 AM
(08-24-2017, 12:41 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: BTW, it's probably obvious I am channeling my inner GI.
Irrespective of the current social, economic and political clusterfucks going on currently in the US, and the West overall, I have stepped on board the Civic train. I am ready for the new Civics to rise to the occasion. The leading edge ones are already seasoned enough to lead. Who are the next JFKs and Reagans?
To the Boomers and some of the Silents, the GIs seemed like bigots. I would say they were pro American, and if that is a type of bigotry, so be it. I'm that type of bigot too.
Some of the GIs were bigots. The country was flawed, and many would often cling to the flaws. The GIs as a whole, however, stepped up and got things done in time. One problem with bigotry is that not everybody matches the stereotype that you'd anticipate. It is better to treat people as individuals than members of this class or that.
What I'd say of the GIs, the best of them, given 20 20 hindsight, is they were willing and ready to solve problems. If that was American, I'm pro American too, but I'd still watch out about who really fits one's stereotype, and not flailing against people who don't deserve it.
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.