Did the Greatest Generation Beget the Worst Generation?

by Sam Pierce

This is not intended to paint the entire generation that followed the "Greatest Generation" with the same red brush. There are certainly patriotic citizens and those who cherish the liberty our founders established among the offspring of the generation who fought World War II. I am related by blood and by marriage to such patriotic children of the "Greatest Generation".

This is about the groovy hippies who never grew out of that phase. This is about the "peace" and "love" types like Bill Ayers who likely mentored Barack Obama more than he would ever admit to the voting public. This is about those who were born in the forties and went from the university to law school to Congress and soaked up all the Marxist ideology they could along the way. This is about those who went from hippy to Congressional intestinal worm and have infested the Capitol for decades. This is about the likes of George Miller (Dimocrat CA-7), who has been in the House since he was twenty-nine years old in 1974.

by Sam Pierce

This is not intended to paint the entire generation that followed the "Greatest Generation" with the same red brush. There are certainly patriotic citizens and those who cherish the liberty our founders established among the offspring of the generation who fought World War II. I am related by blood and by marriage to such patriotic children of the "Greatest Generation".

This is about the groovy hippies who never grew out of that phase. This is about the "peace" and "love" types like Bill Ayers who likely mentored Barack Obama more than he would ever admit to the voting public. This is about those who were born in the forties and went from the university to law school to Congress and soaked up all the Marxist ideology they could along the way. This is about those who went from hippy to Congressional intestinal worm and have infested the Capitol for decades. This is about the likes of George Miller (Dimocrat CA-7), who has been in the House since he was twenty-nine years old in 1974.

Thank God all of California isn't the same as San Francisco (of course I thank God all of Illinois isn't the same as Chicago too). It is too bad California doesn't have more representatives like the elder and younger Duncan Hunter!

The day after Miller participated in fellow San Francisco Statist scum Nancy Piglosi's passage of the destruction of healthcare (at least if the House Dims and Rep. Cao have their way) as we knew it, I see yet another bill introduced which would once again allow federal government intrusion into places in which it has no damn business! H.R. 3991 the "Emergency Influenza Containment Act" serves the following purpose:

To ensure that American workers are able to follow, without financial harm, the recommendations of their employer and public health authorities to stay home when they have symptoms of a contagious disease that may put co-workers, customers, or the public at risk.

The "without financial harm" is the key to this intrusion. We do not require the federal government to determine how many (if any) paid sick days our employers allow! If a person has influenza, his employer will not make him come to work for fear of losing his job. That is of course if the employer is one for whom it is worth working or if the employee isn't an awful employee.

They have moved the government takeover of medical care delivery in our nation through the House. They with the help of RINOs like Mark Kirk have moved the Cap and Trade job killing and cost raising catastrophe through the House. They, again with the "bipartisan" help of "moderates" like Mark Kirk instituted thought crime legislation, because apprently in the eyes of the leftist, a violent crime such as murder should only warrant a maximum punishment if it can be called a "hate crime". By the way, is the murder victim more dead if he was hated by his killer? Is there such thing as a murder, mugging, or assault that is commited out of love for the victim?

The left has used its tools such as the ACLU and the education system to place our nation in such a politically correct contortion that a Muslim who should have never been allowed near our soldiers after some of his sympathies and viewpoints became known was instead allowed to be a psychiatrist in the Army and on Thursday he slaughtered 13 people and injured several more at Fort Hood.

Our children and grandchildren owe a huge debt that they had no say in creating. This is thanks to Republicans as well as the Dimocrats, but the burden on our children can not be too great in the eyes of the leftist vermin who now run our government. The hippies traded communes for their brand of Communism. They redistribute wealth from the taxpayer to the ever-growing dependent class for the sake of some Utopian "greater good" and borrow, borrow, then borrow some more to feed their appetites for governmental domination of the "middle class".

They seek to forcibly silence dissent as their Cuban and Venezualan role models have. They strive for democracy when the mob will vote to seize from the producer or empower the bureaucracy. They villify businesses ... unless the businesses support their agenda. They demonize profit, just not their own. They artfully practice identity politics and still claim that a black man doesn't have a chance in this "mean" country despite the election of Barack Obama. They insist that Muslim terrorists not be identified as Muslim but they along with their accomplices in the liberal media try to implicate Christians when an abortionist is murdered.

They seek the moral degradation of society to weaken the will of the citizen and make him more susceptible to their socialist goals. They are detstable and their actions are harmful. It is past time for Republicans in positions of political power to stop referring to them as "my friend..." It is time to truly be a "party of no" every time the damn Statists attempt to do any damn thing on a federal level that does not fall under an enumerated power in our Constitution! It is time to respect our Constitution and stop denigrating the decent citizens who demand that which constitutionally must fall to the states or local governments actually be left alone by the federal behemoth, as "tenthers"! The Constitution is specific and the Bill of Rights opposes the ten pillars (which can be found in Uncle Karl's book) revered by the Statist.

The above may seem like ranting or rambling, if so, you shouldn't have read it. The times in which we live seem crazy and we don't need our government actively exacerbating the insanity!

Cross-posted from "The Immoderate Blog"

Comments

[Frank Goudy]

I am a boomer. Many of my generation are idiots, I agree.

However, the 'greatest generation' was in the real power seat from the 1950's through most of the 1990's. Look at the expansion of the welfare state that took place under their watch. Look at the immigration act of 1965 that has balkanized this country as well as the huge number of illegals that were ignored as not being an issue. The list could go on.

Sorry to say, but it appears that there is plenty of blame to go around.

[rightwinger]

The so called Greatest Generation was arguably the worst generation or as I like to call them Greatest Debtor Generation. The Great Generation - started Social Security and other big government programs. They were the generation that allowed Medicare, other welfare programs, and liberal programs to start and grow. Although their service in World War II was admirable, you could make the case the lost the war here when they got home.

[Sam Pierce]

You both make reasonable points. I suppose I am just amazed what those who are in power attempt to do and how brazen they are in their attempts. I believe my generation was referred to as Generation X, which seems to be derogatory (I don't know the origin). I hope we concerned citizens of all surviving generations can salvage freedom for future generations.

[DEX50]

I've often believed that the generation that raised the so-called "Greatest Generation" was ITSELF the greatest generation.

These folks fought WWI, endured the Great Depression,kept hearth and home together, and then raised a group who could fight and win WWII.

These wonderful people waned in political influence by the 1950's and demographically disappeared in the 1970's.

There was no spoiling or frivolousness that these Americans tolerated.

[rightwinger]

The greatest generation was the one who fought the revolution and founded this country.

[stargirl]

i am a boomer but for many years i have been ashamed of my generation. it is on our watch that the ACLU has run amok, God has been purged from our society, aberrant behavior has been invested with iconic status, rules that served mankind well for thousands of years have been discarded, the cult of the almighty self has grown to massive proportions, the family has been mortally wounded, sins have become admirable, shame has been mocked as antediluvian, children are taught how bad our country is, and everything we once thought we knew is incompatible with what passes for contemporary mores.
yes, there are millions of people who aren't like this, but the rotten apples have ruined it for everyone else. they infest the media, the law, the government, and the schools. it has taken 40 years but they are in control now. the will of the people is overturned by a single judge, such as daniel riley recently blocking implementation of parental notification after the people of IL voted for it twice in 15 years.
how can we get our country back?