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 was born in 1950, so I was a big supporter of Reagan at the time. I've come to understand that ... he wasn't perfect. His vision, while noble in many respects, was simplistic.
I too was an enthusiastic Reaganite, I was a few days too young to vote for him in 1980, voted for him in 1984, the most likeable President I can remember. The Republican convention was in Dallas in 1984, by the end of his two terms nearly all local elected offices were held by Republicans, some changed parties, notably Phil Gramm and Rick Perry. Dallas County is now as blue as Chicago and probably as corrupt!
My theory is that Democrps figured out decades ago that retail politics is for suckers and losers. Far better and easier to cheat. Of course, all politics is tainted by some level of cheating by all concerned. This traces back to colonial days. What I'm talking about is far different.
At some point in the...1980s? When Dems figured out that their radical left ideas would never be embraced by most Americans, they embarked upon a clever, determined, and vicious program to capture the electoral system to their benefit. This is the heart of the Criminal Cartel. The ability to capture key government positions and leverage that to hand out government largesse in an ever expanding web of corrupt private-public dependencies. A cartel.
My theory is they tested and perfected their methods in CA turning a reliably red state purple and then blue. They have since exported these methods and adapted them to many different states. Essentially, every formerly red state that has gone purple or blue has done so primarily by this system of electoral capture.
So, in Dallas, if you look closely enough, I'd bet you'll find that certain key positions in local government were captured and then leveraged to rig the system to get results that expanded and solidified their powers. So many commenters love to write off blue cities and states who "voted for" so and so, good riddance, get what they deserve etc... Sure, these places have plenty of deluded lefties who vote automatically for the D but in the main, it's window dressing. The outcome is determined by the Cartel. He who counts the vote, si? We don't live in a representative democracy because the voting isnt real. As politicians caught on to this game they jumped on the scam wagon which is why we have a Uniparty today w the pretense of 2 parties. Our system is way more broken than we want to admit, probably because the solution is too frightening.
There have been many highly suspect election results in Dallas for decades. City Council & bond elections being the worst. When a Federal Court ruled that all City council Districts were to be single member districts, no at large members, that was the beginning of the slide downhill lasting for 40 years now.
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.
I was a Cruz guy, supported my junior Senator at first, after seeing Trump for a while I went with him. Now I realize after some study that Ted isn't Eligible to run for Pres. or VP. The reason being he is not a "natural born" citizen. He was born in Canada, only his mother had American citizenship, he was a dual national at birth, so he's ineligible.
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 was born in 1950, so I was a big supporter of Reagan at the time. I've come to understand that ... he wasn't perfect. His vision, while noble in many respects, was simplistic.
I too was an enthusiastic Reaganite, I was a few days too young to vote for him in 1980, voted for him in 1984, the most likeable President I can remember. The Republican convention was in Dallas in 1984, by the end of his two terms nearly all local elected offices were held by Republicans, some changed parties, notably Phil Gramm and Rick Perry. Dallas County is now as blue as Chicago and probably as corrupt!
My theory is that Democrps figured out decades ago that retail politics is for suckers and losers. Far better and easier to cheat. Of course, all politics is tainted by some level of cheating by all concerned. This traces back to colonial days. What I'm talking about is far different.
At some point in the...1980s? When Dems figured out that their radical left ideas would never be embraced by most Americans, they embarked upon a clever, determined, and vicious program to capture the electoral system to their benefit. This is the heart of the Criminal Cartel. The ability to capture key government positions and leverage that to hand out government largesse in an ever expanding web of corrupt private-public dependencies. A cartel.
My theory is they tested and perfected their methods in CA turning a reliably red state purple and then blue. They have since exported these methods and adapted them to many different states. Essentially, every formerly red state that has gone purple or blue has done so primarily by this system of electoral capture.
So, in Dallas, if you look closely enough, I'd bet you'll find that certain key positions in local government were captured and then leveraged to rig the system to get results that expanded and solidified their powers. So many commenters love to write off blue cities and states who "voted for" so and so, good riddance, get what they deserve etc... Sure, these places have plenty of deluded lefties who vote automatically for the D but in the main, it's window dressing. The outcome is determined by the Cartel. He who counts the vote, si? We don't live in a representative democracy because the voting isnt real. As politicians caught on to this game they jumped on the scam wagon which is why we have a Uniparty today w the pretense of 2 parties. Our system is way more broken than we want to admit, probably because the solution is too frightening.
There have been many highly suspect election results in Dallas for decades. City Council & bond elections being the worst. When a Federal Court ruled that all City council Districts were to be single member districts, no at large members, that was the beginning of the slide downhill lasting for 40 years now.
My point exactly, yep. No coincidences.
The two go hand in hand.
Dallas has a long history of corruption, was pretty clean from the 1950-1990 period, the place will never be the same.
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.
I was a Cruz guy, supported my junior Senator at first, after seeing Trump for a while I went with him. Now I realize after some study that Ted isn't Eligible to run for Pres. or VP. The reason being he is not a "natural born" citizen. He was born in Canada, only his mother had American citizenship, he was a dual national at birth, so he's ineligible.
Trudeau . . . Isn't he actually Castreau?
I call him Castrateau.
He appears to be a eunuch.