We owe a debt of gratitude to the Greatest Generation, which beat back authoritarianism around the globe. But today's Republican Party has made a mockery of that legacy.
I truly believe if my father was alive now, he might have just changed party's! He and my mother were die hard Republicans and I rather doubt either of them would have backed what is going on in today's party. Like you said kind of like an alcoholic drinking himself to death. First and foremost I truly don't believe they would have elected a person as old as our leader is because as they used to say when you you get to that age you tend to forget things, get angry and complacent!
How true, Mary, sadly how true are your words, and when these black days are over these small, weak people will say, “ but what could I do?” , and we will know they are weak and irresponsible as we consider all they might have done. History will indeed remember and indict.
It is such a shame what is happening in our nation today. I look to the future and kind of hope things right themselves. Am I an optimist well what else can we do. My best advice is VOTE in the election this year and the year after that and the year after that. It's truly important. We are the ones who SHOULD be controlling what happens in this country. And the sooner the people wake up and realize that politicians work for the benefit of the US, ALL of US not just a handful and they better straighten out soon or we will vote them out and put people in that will actually work for US not just one man or his sycophants.
Reagan also made up a phony story about a Welfare Queen and instead of just improving federal government taught people to hate it like it was a mirror image of the Soviets.
The Welfare Queen was actually a real person- and a real criminal scam artist! Reagens moral crime was to use that to persuade people that everyone on welfare was that woman. Everyone was a welfare queen, according to him. That lie is still lodged in lots of people's heads. Extremely destructive.
Wow read this again and I have to thank you for so much information and how it relates to present times! A kind of Deja Vu! It's also like when people fail to read or learn to read even though they say "Ignorance is Bliss" it may not truly happen. One more: "The Truth will set you free!"
"You know the face you see in the mirror is a coward. You will be remembered without respect. You have allowed evil to sit at America’s table and feast on what is good and right about our country.
May God have mercy upon your souls. History will have none."
Thank you, Stuart. “We should never lose sight that Republicans can end the evil that is creeping over America at any time.” It’s been a rough week for America and for my family. My granddaughter was released from the hospital this morning after losing her baby at 31 weeks. She’s a healthy 22-year old who developed pre-eclampsia and her baby, my great-granddaughter, Skyla died. I’m grateful that she’s doing ok. She’s got courage and wisdom beyond her years. I’m also grateful it happened in a blue state because she may have become a monstrous science experiment if she lived Georgia.
“But you know you have failed the moral test of our time. You know the face you see in the mirror is a coward. You will be remembered without respect. You have allowed evil to sit at America’s table and feast on what is good and right about our country.
May God have mercy upon your souls. History will have none.”
Spot on Stuart, these are words which describe all the craven Senators and Representatives who have turned their back on their country, and those on the Supreme Court who care more for the bright shiny objects they can acquire when no one is looking.
Here's the thing I don't understand. I'm 66 years old. I constantly read comments, or hear Trump supporters in interviews at his rallies, who are more or less my age. Which means their parents were approximately same age as my parents. During WWII, my mother worked in a naval hospital in San Diego. She saw the injuries the servicemen who were hospitalized there had suffered. My father was in the army in Europe. He was among a group of soldiers who liberated a concentration camp. In the last week of the war he and the men in his unit were fired upon by a Nazi sniper in Czechoslovakia. So, yes, they were part of that Greatest Generation. They understood the cost of what it took to preserve democracy. Maybe not every Trump supporter my age had parents who had these types of experiences, but certainly their parents were alive during that time. Didn't their parents tell them the history of what it was like to live during WWII? Didn't these Trump supporters learn anything from their parents? Have they no sense of history?
"You have allowed evil to sit at America’s table and feast on what is good and right about our country." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
I truly believe if my father was alive now, he might have just changed party's! He and my mother were die hard Republicans and I rather doubt either of them would have backed what is going on in today's party. Like you said kind of like an alcoholic drinking himself to death. First and foremost I truly don't believe they would have elected a person as old as our leader is because as they used to say when you you get to that age you tend to forget things, get angry and complacent!
Love you Stuart!
How true, Mary, sadly how true are your words, and when these black days are over these small, weak people will say, “ but what could I do?” , and we will know they are weak and irresponsible as we consider all they might have done. History will indeed remember and indict.
Excellent essay! The legendary quotes from JFK, Reagan and Churchill . . .
When evaluating ANY foreign policy ask how it stands up to JFK and Reagan’s quotes.
If Reagan were alive today, Trump's MAGA party would call him a RINO. He gave amnesty to immigrants and he hated Russia.
Most Republicans will not abandon Trump. The Party of Lincoln and Eisenhower is gone.
It is such a shame what is happening in our nation today. I look to the future and kind of hope things right themselves. Am I an optimist well what else can we do. My best advice is VOTE in the election this year and the year after that and the year after that. It's truly important. We are the ones who SHOULD be controlling what happens in this country. And the sooner the people wake up and realize that politicians work for the benefit of the US, ALL of US not just a handful and they better straighten out soon or we will vote them out and put people in that will actually work for US not just one man or his sycophants.
Brilliant!
Reagan also made up a phony story about a Welfare Queen and instead of just improving federal government taught people to hate it like it was a mirror image of the Soviets.
The Welfare Queen was actually a real person- and a real criminal scam artist! Reagens moral crime was to use that to persuade people that everyone on welfare was that woman. Everyone was a welfare queen, according to him. That lie is still lodged in lots of people's heads. Extremely destructive.
Yes well there was a real person, but as you say the lie is to smear all welfare recipients because of one weird story.
Blaming the poor is an old idea. It seems to be something people have a hard time seeing logically.
Wow read this again and I have to thank you for so much information and how it relates to present times! A kind of Deja Vu! It's also like when people fail to read or learn to read even though they say "Ignorance is Bliss" it may not truly happen. One more: "The Truth will set you free!"
"You know the face you see in the mirror is a coward. You will be remembered without respect. You have allowed evil to sit at America’s table and feast on what is good and right about our country.
May God have mercy upon your souls. History will have none."
Jesus, Stewart.
Republicans have been on my enemies list for 51 years and counting.
Well said, Mr. Stevens.
Thank you, Stuart. “We should never lose sight that Republicans can end the evil that is creeping over America at any time.” It’s been a rough week for America and for my family. My granddaughter was released from the hospital this morning after losing her baby at 31 weeks. She’s a healthy 22-year old who developed pre-eclampsia and her baby, my great-granddaughter, Skyla died. I’m grateful that she’s doing ok. She’s got courage and wisdom beyond her years. I’m also grateful it happened in a blue state because she may have become a monstrous science experiment if she lived Georgia.
“But you know you have failed the moral test of our time. You know the face you see in the mirror is a coward. You will be remembered without respect. You have allowed evil to sit at America’s table and feast on what is good and right about our country.
May God have mercy upon your souls. History will have none.”
Spot on Stuart, these are words which describe all the craven Senators and Representatives who have turned their back on their country, and those on the Supreme Court who care more for the bright shiny objects they can acquire when no one is looking.
Here's the thing I don't understand. I'm 66 years old. I constantly read comments, or hear Trump supporters in interviews at his rallies, who are more or less my age. Which means their parents were approximately same age as my parents. During WWII, my mother worked in a naval hospital in San Diego. She saw the injuries the servicemen who were hospitalized there had suffered. My father was in the army in Europe. He was among a group of soldiers who liberated a concentration camp. In the last week of the war he and the men in his unit were fired upon by a Nazi sniper in Czechoslovakia. So, yes, they were part of that Greatest Generation. They understood the cost of what it took to preserve democracy. Maybe not every Trump supporter my age had parents who had these types of experiences, but certainly their parents were alive during that time. Didn't their parents tell them the history of what it was like to live during WWII? Didn't these Trump supporters learn anything from their parents? Have they no sense of history?
"You have allowed evil to sit at America’s table and feast on what is good and right about our country." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...