I’m not entirely sure how to react to the first article. The bottom line is that it may help explain the antipathy of some ordinary people on the conservative end of the political spectrum for Donald Trump. The author is forthright in that regard: What is needed is a return to a united front politics
Born during the 1st Eisenhower administration. Boomers and Millennials share in our family. We get it.
The difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution was the guillotine. The American Revolution overthrew a foreign occupier sending KG III's armies back to England. The French Revolution overthrew a domestic one sending the aristocracy to the afterlife.
The French Revolutionaries had no vision of "France" that wasn't ruled by the aristocracy and therefore went out to destroy every aspect of the Old State. In the US it is the Occupiers who are the Wreckers and Iconoclasts. American "revolutionaries" are quite different in that we do have a vision of the shining city on the hill that we are trying to preserve. It is the shining city that Boomers want to save. It is the shining city that Millennials want to find.
Regarding the article from American Greatness, as a late "Boomer", born 4Q 1962, I have political views more in common with younger conservatives. My late parents who were born in 1931 & 1932 went through pure hell in their youth, I expected to catch hell like they did. Sure enough just as I came of age in 1981 the economic conditions in Dallas TX for a White male HS grad totally sucked. The late '70's oil boom was over, construction was grinding to a halt, even low paying government jobs were scarce, "equal opportunity / affirmative action employers". The petro states, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico & Louisiana were devastated by the oil crash in 1986, did not recover until the early 2000's. I will never forgive Reagan for signing the job destroying amnesty for illegals. I am based too!
I had already read two of the three (I hit Instapundit three times a day, and have done so for years). But behind Reynolds' column is a basic truth: While Karl Marx dreamed that his ideas would be taken up and enacted by the working class (the "proletariat" in his terms), that has never happened. If you look into the adoption of Communism in any country, it is always the intellectuals who go for it--and a number of "wannabe" intellectuals. Lenin was no working-class kid; neither was Stalin. Mao was what passed for an intellectual in China at the time. The same is true of Ho Chi Minh and others, including Pol Pot. Marx himself was never a worker either--he spent most of his life sponging off wealthy friends. The Working Class lives closer to the Real World than the intellectuals, and this is one of those areas where it shows. And the disconnect is becoming clearer, and starting to have costs--for the Intellectuals.
I’m curious along with whom paid Michael Avenatti, who paid all the anti Kavanaugh research and support that fed the Christine Blasey Ford accusations against Kavanaugh including a paid opposition researcher. Seems to include lots of the same lawfare crew involved against Trump.
Born during the 1st Eisenhower administration. Boomers and Millennials share in our family. We get it.
The difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution was the guillotine. The American Revolution overthrew a foreign occupier sending KG III's armies back to England. The French Revolution overthrew a domestic one sending the aristocracy to the afterlife.
The French Revolutionaries had no vision of "France" that wasn't ruled by the aristocracy and therefore went out to destroy every aspect of the Old State. In the US it is the Occupiers who are the Wreckers and Iconoclasts. American "revolutionaries" are quite different in that we do have a vision of the shining city on the hill that we are trying to preserve. It is the shining city that Boomers want to save. It is the shining city that Millennials want to find.
Regarding the article from American Greatness, as a late "Boomer", born 4Q 1962, I have political views more in common with younger conservatives. My late parents who were born in 1931 & 1932 went through pure hell in their youth, I expected to catch hell like they did. Sure enough just as I came of age in 1981 the economic conditions in Dallas TX for a White male HS grad totally sucked. The late '70's oil boom was over, construction was grinding to a halt, even low paying government jobs were scarce, "equal opportunity / affirmative action employers". The petro states, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico & Louisiana were devastated by the oil crash in 1986, did not recover until the early 2000's. I will never forgive Reagan for signing the job destroying amnesty for illegals. I am based too!
I had already read two of the three (I hit Instapundit three times a day, and have done so for years). But behind Reynolds' column is a basic truth: While Karl Marx dreamed that his ideas would be taken up and enacted by the working class (the "proletariat" in his terms), that has never happened. If you look into the adoption of Communism in any country, it is always the intellectuals who go for it--and a number of "wannabe" intellectuals. Lenin was no working-class kid; neither was Stalin. Mao was what passed for an intellectual in China at the time. The same is true of Ho Chi Minh and others, including Pol Pot. Marx himself was never a worker either--he spent most of his life sponging off wealthy friends. The Working Class lives closer to the Real World than the intellectuals, and this is one of those areas where it shows. And the disconnect is becoming clearer, and starting to have costs--for the Intellectuals.
Love my country! Currently, a controlled, seething rage at my government.
I’m curious along with whom paid Michael Avenatti, who paid all the anti Kavanaugh research and support that fed the Christine Blasey Ford accusations against Kavanaugh including a paid opposition researcher. Seems to include lots of the same lawfare crew involved against Trump.