| A massive show of political unity at home | | | | Viet Cong and Khmer Rouge slaughtered about |
| will affect troop morale, on both sides! | | | | three million of those peasants who we |
| | | | demonstrated in US streets to protect, from |
| Let's face it; we are all liberals, no matter | | | | US troops. How foolish we were! |
| how conservative we may be. The Puritans who | | | | |
| founded America conquered dangers and | | | | The lesson is clear: really bad guys |
| disasters to win religious freedom, but they | | | | immediately fill the muscle void when good |
| were liberals. In 1754, Benjamin Franklin | | | | men stand down and go home. Those who rallied |
| depicted a rattlesnake cut into eight | | | | our utopian filled minds to stop the war were |
| sections in his Pennsylvania Gazette. The | | | | mostly silent about the genocide that ensued, |
| eight sections of snake symbolized eight | | | | after US troops were withdrawn. Our killed |
| eastern seaboard colonies and the caption | | | | and wounded were sacrificed in great numbers. |
| said "Join or Die!" It was a call to arms | | | | In the end, their mission and our allies were |
| during the French and Indian war. By 1776, an | | | | simply abandoned by Congress and our divided |
| image of a coiled rattlesnake, with "Don't | | | | nation. |
| Tread on Me", became an American icon of | | | | |
| independence and a battle cry engrained in | | | | We grew up with Why We Fight, Victory At Sea, |
| the Spirit of '76. | | | | Combat, Black Sheep Squadron, Rat Patrol and |
| | | | other programs about WWII, the death camps |
| What is different about the liberalism of the | | | | and the cost of freedom on TV. This type of |
| Puritans and the liberalism of the | | | | programming saturated the few over-the-air |
| progressive movement in America today? In a | | | | channels and we found it educational, |
| word, the difference is morality. The | | | | entertaining and fascinating. Many of us |
| Puritans personified deeply held, Bible based | | | | still find it fascinating. It was all about |
| morality with their liberalism. When morality | | | | the gritty, epic struggle between freedom and |
| is stripped away from liberalism, the result | | | | tyranny and it was very patriotic! |
| is 30 million aborted babies over thirty | | | | |
| years, legalized sodomy and the North | | | | The Rifleman, Leave It To Beaver, Gunsmoke, |
| American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), | | | | My Three Sons, Bonanza, The Waltons, Wild |
| all protected by the immoral ACLU (American | | | | Kingdom and All In The Family are just a few |
| Civil Liberties Union). | | | | programs I recall that were favorites for |
| | | | lighter entertainment. And the Ed Sullivan |
| Born in 1954, I was a classic Love | | | | show. It was all pretty wholesome fare and we |
| Generation, anti-Vietnam War liberal, living | | | | loved it. The America of our youth is already |
| at the speed of party! It is unbelievable; | | | | gone forever, in case you missed its passing. |
| what our generation has lived through. The | | | | |
| sexual revolution, women's lib, the music | | | | We watched in naive befuddlement while the |
| revolution, the recreational drug awakening, | | | | Shah of Iran was overthrown by the Islamic |
| the Civil Rights marches, the nuclear arms | | | | Revolutionary Guard in Tehran, who used US |
| race, the space race, the information | | | | hostages as pawns on TV for over a year |
| revolution spawned by the computer, the | | | | beginning in 1979. Interest rates were sky |
| internet, satellites and cell phones are just | | | | high and lines at gas stations were longer |
| part of what we have witnessed! What a | | | | than that. Our President at the time was a |
| wonderful life and evolution of our | | | | former peanut farmer and most of us watched, |
| democracy, in our time! | | | | from afar, the rise of radical Islam without |
| | | | understanding it. |
| Our choices for president in 1972, when I | | | | |
| turned eighteen and got a draft card, were | | | | As a result of the gasoline shortages that |
| Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. I did not | | | | followed, there was a lot of talk about |
| vote that year. Most profound, perhaps, we | | | | energy independence. Certainly, the masses of |
| stopped the Vietnam War to protect those poor | | | | us did not connect the dots between buying |
| rice farmers, from US troops. We quit and | | | | foreign oil and funding terrorism. |
| came home. Then, between 1975 and 1978, the | | | | |