Clarity Crafted From Common Sense!

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sections of snake symbolized eight eastern seaboardthat ensued, after US troops were withdrawn.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