tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post6372305772550008029..comments2023-08-10T04:26:09.048-04:00Comments on Wise Man's Heart: The "corporations" left and the baby boomersHermeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15048343595688010664noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-33143820227680823162009-01-22T11:37:00.000-05:002009-01-22T11:37:00.000-05:00I have been going through a similar situation with...I have been going through a similar situation with parents, inlaws, older co-workers. They all seemed to have been staunchly conservative many years ago, maybe slightly liberal when it came to having fun now and again, but basically strongly conservative in every way. Today they are closer to the liberals of the 1960's but they think they are the same old conservatives. <BR/><BR/>They have taken in subconsciously all the lies of the trotskyist/neo-cons. What's really weird is, if I can get them alone and serious for a couple of hours, I can get them to agree on all the facts of what's really going on, but then they refuse to admit to the obvious conclusions until years later. They seem to know the truth but are unwilling to realize it.<BR/><BR/>Older conservatives today live in a fantasy land of the 1950's. They imagine that our government can be fixed by electing the right guys to office or by getting "one more conservative supreme court justice" appointed. I don't think they realize how bad things have gotten socially and spiritually. Even if they do, they don't want to admit that the pool of conservatives to choose from is very tiny and that even if a true leader did present himself (e.g., Ron Paul) he would not be recognized by the unwashed masses as such, and certainly would not be permitted an audience by the MSM.<BR/><BR/>I think most older people, liberal or conservative, are completely confused and just don't care to figure it out anymore. They just want their government/retirement checks and sports on TV. <BR/><BR/>There is always hope, of course, we're just going to have to work much harder to find it in the everyday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-27914360537758195142008-12-12T01:03:00.000-05:002008-12-12T01:03:00.000-05:00I just corrected a major error in this entry, whic...I just corrected a major error in this entry, which I can't believe I didn't notice upon posting it. The second sentence in the second-to-last paragraph had read "my father has spent his life unemployed." This was a complete typo; it should have read "self-employed" all along. My father was never unemployed. Sorry, Dad.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15048343595688010664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-55502819362281950942008-11-07T09:30:00.000-05:002008-11-07T09:30:00.000-05:00Out with the old "Greatest Generation" and in with...Out with the old "Greatest Generation" and in with the new one. After all, you can't expect to be able to claim the tribute of "Greatest Generation" forever. Ask the founding fathers.<BR/><BR/>Mercy!Terry Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00166609562028309038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-62575115060136658442008-11-07T04:45:00.000-05:002008-11-07T04:45:00.000-05:00I think you're correct in saying that it wasn't on...I think you're correct in saying that it wasn't only the baby boomers who got us into this mess. This country has been drifting to the left since 1900. Once economic equality is sold to the public (1930s), cultural Marxism is soon to follow (1960s). The major exception to this was the Southern Democrats, who supported FDR's economic interventions but resisted the civil rights movement and desegregation. They defected en masse to the Republican Party by the mid 1960's and became "conservatives". Their descendants are the "red staters" in the South that are so often demonized.<BR/><BR/>Even though it wasn't their fault entirely, I do blame baby boomers the most for our current dilemma. Unlike the Southern Democrats of the Greatest Generation, many baby boomers never had any concrete core of beliefs. Their ideologies drifted with their economic situation. As they age, they are going to demand more money than we can give for their medical care and cost of living. Add this to the demands of the rising minority population, and we're going to have two large groups of people competing for our paychecks. Baby boomers are almost 25% of the population. This will inevitably bankrupt the US. As all of the baby boomers retire and are replaced by minorities and apathetic GenX/Yers, we'll witness first hand the transition to third world status. In a twist of irony, the boomers are the last generation that can make this country run on time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-15138910910832615312008-11-07T00:25:00.000-05:002008-11-07T00:25:00.000-05:00Hermes - thanks for the mention.Interesting post. ...Hermes - thanks for the mention.<BR/>Interesting post. I am not sure I have an answer for your question. I do know that I encounter a lot of people who are equally mercurial in their political views or party leanings. I have relatives who, while they hold many conservative views, stubbornly vote Democrat, despite the party's championing the very opposite views. <BR/><BR/>I also know people who've vacillated between left and right in their lifetimes, seemingly without rhyme or reason. Many people, especially women, so it seems, vote based on 'feelings' or on the personal charisma of the candidate. <BR/><BR/>But people can and do have real changes of heart or mind politically. I've mentioned that I used to be quite leftist and have gone further right based on life experience. However, I, like most baby-boomers, had a traditional upbringing; I was brought up with old-fashioned beliefs and a Protestant work ethic. So going conservative as I grew order was simply reverting to my upbringing. The leftism was an aberration which I outgrew.<BR/><BR/>One little nitpick: the 'Greatest Generation', my parents' generation, were not the ones who voted in FDR or the New Deal. My Dad, for instance, would only been of age to vote in 1941, so he may have voted for FDR only the last time he ran for President. The generations who were born in the late 19th century, or pre-WWI, would have been the ones who brought FDR to power, and they would have been part of the 'Old Left' movement of the 20s and 30s, in some cases.The trend goes farther back than it may appear.<BR/><BR/>I think you have put your finger on something, though, in that many Americans make political choices which lack consistency or principles.Vanishing Americanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07723746944036650219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905922288517555692.post-23057090641273161032008-11-06T23:36:00.000-05:002008-11-06T23:36:00.000-05:00Jim Quinn did an updated version of the Ant and th...Jim Quinn did an updated version of the Ant and the Grasshopper in the 1990s, which is quite politically accurate. <BR/><BR/>Here's the last paragraph. Worth reading the whole thing (it's short).<BR/><BR/>"The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in....which just happens to be the ant's old house.... crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV; which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, Bill Clinton is standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "Fairness" has dawned in America."<BR/><BR/>Here's the link:<BR/><BR/>http://www.warroom.com/antgh.php<BR/><BR/>God bless,<BR/>LaurelLaurel Loflundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06983044173456409615noreply@blogger.com