Originally Posted by
flenna
As I said in another thread, our country is in a sad state when Bernie Sanders, a naked communist who hates our country, is a viable candidate where 45%+/- of the citizens would vote for him if he gets the nomination.
Before we say "all is lost" we should remember we had more actual socialism under FDR. We practiced eugenics before Germany ever heard the word, we had a legal means to forcibly sterilize undesirables if we could declare them to be indigent and we did some really horrible shit. Prior to FDR we used the US military to attack WWI veterans and their families who were engaged in a lawful, peaceful protest and we made the sale of alcohol illegals.
Things aren't good, but we are a long way off from how bad they actually were in the 1930s. I don't think any of you guys would have survived the 1930s. Things may or may not be as bad as they were in 1969, things were really bad in 1969.
But all was not lost in the 1930s, it gave way to the 1950s. All was not lost in 1969, it gave way to the 1980s. There is a definite good and bad tradeoff.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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