Tom's Conservative Rant / A Long Read But Worth Your Time: Tom's Conservative Rant / A Long Read But Worth Your Time TOM'S RANT, Read this carefully. If you are over 55 and think...

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Tom's Conservative Rant / A Long Read But Worth Your Time

TOM'S RANT, Read this carefully. If you are over 55 and think clearly and objectively, you’ll understand why he has reached the conclusions he puts forward related to where we are today and how the last 90 years have brought us to this point. The thought that we might be heading for the Orwellian 1984 is truly scary and should cause the “thinking progressives” (is this an oxymoron) to reevaluate where they are headed.
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I had the privilege to be invited to a small private luncheon of a group of about 15 very smart, sophisticated people consisting of professors, one of whom was a professed liberal at a well-known very left college, CEO’s of hedge and PE funds, two well-known authors, and some very senior businessmen. There were 2 prominent women at lunch. It was very much like the salons of Gertrude Stein in Paris in the early 1900’s. The topic was, how did we get here, where the “Progressives” control campuses, and where free speech is under attack. Nobody has a definitive answer, but here are some of my personal conclusions based on a very lively 2 hour, free-wheeling discussion. It is not meant to represent the conclusion of the group, as there was no set conclusion when lunch ended. Just a lot of fascinating thoughts put forth.
How Did We Get Here- A History of 90 Years Of Evolution and Revolution
The depression began to unfold in 1929. After 16 years of economic depression and world war, mass murder of the holocaust, the rise of the Soviet Union and start of the cold war, and then Korea, the US needed calm, predictability, and good order, democratic government, and a belief system of strength, and stability. Women still had few rights, and were assigned to be at home raising kids who were delayed due to men being off to war. White male Protestants controlled the power. Jews were discriminated against. B****s were still oppressed. Eisenhower, the hero general, became president. Harry Truman drove himself and his wife home to Missouri in his own car.
The result was, tens of millions of people just wanted to recapture normal life, have a family, a home, a civilian job, and the opportunity to succeed. So, in the fifties we had the organization man, who was the buttoned up, suit wearing, married man, who was in charge. Divorce was considered a bad stain on your life. School taught p***e in America, work hard, play by the rules, and you have the opportunity to succeed and become wealthy, or at least lead the life you dreamed of when at war. You are responsible for your own success or failure. The government is not there to take care of you, or give you money. We were taught the Soviets wanted to drop A bombs on us.
My HS class of 1962 was the last of that generation on campus. 1963 is when campus protests began in earnest. Then came the revolt against the stable, inhibited social mores and power structure. Vietnam, the sexual revolution, drugs, civil rights laws, the free speech movements on campus, and finally the Democratic convention r**ts, and Martin Luther King and his movement, and the Kennedy assassination. In total, it was a rising up of all of the groups who had been suppressed. It also coincided with a huge wave of the next generation of college students, none of whom had experienced growing up with war or depression. As an outgrowth, we had campus r**ts, Woodstock, drugs, and terror groups like the Weathermen, Symbionese Liberation Army and people determined to stage a revolution against what had been a well defined and white male, Protestant controlled society. Various groups took out their frustrations at the constrained and rules based society we had, which still had been discriminating against women, b****s, and Jews. The seventies was the high point of all these movements, and the violence we experienced. Things then calmed down considerably, and society began to change, with all of the suppressed groups now moving ahead, and women moving into the workplace and positions of power. Hilary Clinton, as much as many of us might despise her, was the de facto leader of showing that women can even run for president. B****s expressed their frustration by staging huge r**ts and destroying what they perceived as whitey owned stores and property. Albert Shankar, in New York, created the teachers union, and the city caved after the teacher strikes, and today the teachers unions control schools across the country, and the result is we have the failed education system, and unsustainable teachers’ pension liabilities. They also control many Democratic politicians with their massive contributions. Compare that to the fifties.
Over time, those kids from the sixties and seventies who protested, r**ted and revolted, got into positions of power on campus. They became professors, and administrators. They brought along their outrage from when they were younger, but now they had power, and the ability to influence the next generation. Those people now run the universities, and their students and children are now the professors, high school and elementary school teachers, senior reporters, and in many cases, politicians in control of large cities, judgeships, and previously of Congress and the White House. The civil rights laws of the Johnson era provided the legal structure under which Progressives could then pursue what they perceived as continuing grievances, and they had the liberal judges on the bench, especially in the ninth circuit, and for a period on the Supreme Court, to rule in their favor. Most importantly they had control of universities, and from there, the ability to influence the thinking of the next generation to their way of thinking. Combine this with the kids who grew up in elite households with helicopter parents who wanted their kids to never have to really be in need for anything. The kids were taught they were really smart and had elite rights, and a right to be in control when they grew up. Working hard and sacrificing to get wealth and power was no longer the mantra, which many of us grew up with in the fifties. Taking responsibility for one’s own success went away. Now it was all given to the kids. There was no more competition because someone has to lose and feel bad. Everyone gets a trophy just to show up. So now when they don’t get what they want, they become snowflakes, unable to cope. They become “victims”. Obama and Holder espoused a continuing rhetoric that b****s were still oppressed, and cops were r****ts. They created the victim mentality in b****s, and drove home the blame r****m rhetoric which has become a major go to excuse for failure, (Sikes in Broward) and a setback to race relations. So now when black kids whose SAT scores and high school training do not measure up, but they are admitted to top schools for “diversity”, they struggle and fail, but they blame white r****m instead of their own failure to work and study hard. They become “victims”.
Teaching of history and civics was eliminated, as it got in the way of the progressive way of thinking. If students got to understand it was the heterosexual white men who revolted in 1776, who kept the union together and died by the hundreds of thousands to free the s***es, built the great economic power of America, built the cities, the railroads and industry, and sacrificed their lives to save the rest of the world in two World Wars, made us who we are, and why America is the greatest nation on earth, that reality takes away from the progressive mantra that the past is all bad white male dominated oppression. Teaching history would let kids realize that those same white males invented many wonderful things, built great institutions, and funded the schools that they now attend, where today the kids now claim they should not honor the men who created the school, instead of being thankful they get to attend. In short, if they taught history, the younger generation might realize the white guys did a lot of really good things that allows these kids to live well and be free, and have the opportunities others in the world do not have. It was the straight white guys who reestablished the current world order in 1945, and stopped the Soviets, which allowed the EU to rebuild, and to live in peace. Progressives can’t allow that thinking because it undermines their entire rhetoric, therefore we have almost no history taught in schools.
Power corrupts. Now the progressives (far left as opposed to Democratic moderates), are in power in many places. That is why Trump got elected. The deplorables rose up and said -enough. The revolt has begun. They said we are proud to be Americans and proud of our heritage, and the constitution as it was written. Proud to be heterosexual white men who use the men’s room. We want America to be great again. We want a strong loudmouth who is not afraid to rip apart what has become the existing left wing power structure. Trump threatens everything the Progressives have power over. That is why they h**e him with such passion. Progressives want to crush anyone who threatens their hold on power, and that even includes wanting to change the first amendment so that it would say they should be free FROM speech they do not want that might threaten their hold on power and thought. We are at real risk today of George Orwell coming alive. Facebook and Google feel free to control the main media source for the next generation. Deans control what kids learn in college. Progressive principals control the lower schools curricula. The press feels free to slant reporting to fit their progressive views to influence public opinion. They attack Trump, not because he is all the crude things he is, but because he threatens their very hold on power. He uses the exact same methods as the icons of the left once did: Betty Freidan, Gloria Steinem, Jesse Jackson, Eugene McCarthy, Abbey Hoffman, and others. Loud and obnoxious. He has a bully pulpit, and the power of executive authority, and of appointment to challenge their power in ways that threaten their hold. He now controls the courts, which is the key to real power. The Kavanaugh hearings were not about the judge. They were really all about who is in power to control the next 20 years of jurisprudence. That is why holding the Senate with the power to appoint judges was so critical to the future of the nation, and why you see the fight for the senate seat in Florida. It is why Ginsberg refuses to retire, and her replacement hearings will make Kavanaugh look like a warm up. Who holds the real power for a generation or more is at stake.
I believe what we are now seeing is the updated version of an all-out fight for power in America. It is the natural pendulum law-at some point it swings the other way. Trump has set the swing in motion. It is 55 years since the first campus protests It is now left wing Progressives vs millions of us deplorables who do not agree with them being in power. Many of us believe the individual is the owner and determiner of his own destiny for which he must take personal responsibility. Progressives believe their group think is who controls the individual’s life and destiny, and the successful should be taxed because they owe the less successful and less responsible (“victims”), a living. It is an epic battle for the cultural soul of America. The history of America for the next 50 years will depend on the outcome.
I realize I have condensed 90 years of American history into a few paragraphs, so I am not trying to be a perfect reporter of all that happened. Just an observer.

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Oldsailor65 wrote:

Tom's Conservative Rant / A Long Read But Worth Your Time

TOM'S RANT, Read this carefully. If you are over 55 and think clearly and objectively, you’ll understand why he has reached the conclusions he puts forward related to where we are today and how the last 90 years have brought us to this point. The thought that we might be heading for the Orwellian 1984 is truly scary and should cause the “thinking progressives” (is this an oxymoron) to reevaluate where they are headed.
=================================================
I had the privilege to be invited to a small private luncheon of a group of about 15 very smart, sophisticated people consisting of professors, one of whom was a professed liberal at a well-known very left college, CEO’s of hedge and PE funds, two well-known authors, and some very senior businessmen. There were 2 prominent women at lunch. It was very much like the salons of Gertrude Stein in Paris in the early 1900’s. The topic was, how did we get here, where the “Progressives” control campuses, and where free speech is under attack. Nobody has a definitive answer, but here are some of my personal conclusions based on a very lively 2 hour, free-wheeling discussion. It is not meant to represent the conclusion of the group, as there was no set conclusion when lunch ended. Just a lot of fascinating thoughts put forth.
How Did We Get Here- A History of 90 Years Of Evolution and Revolution
The depression began to unfold in 1929. After 16 years of economic depression and world war, mass murder of the holocaust, the rise of the Soviet Union and start of the cold war, and then Korea, the US needed calm, predictability, and good order, democratic government, and a belief system of strength, and stability. Women still had few rights, and were assigned to be at home raising kids who were delayed due to men being off to war. White male Protestants controlled the power. Jews were discriminated against. B****s were still oppressed. Eisenhower, the hero general, became president. Harry Truman drove himself and his wife home to Missouri in his own car.
The result was, tens of millions of people just wanted to recapture normal life, have a family, a home, a civilian job, and the opportunity to succeed. So, in the fifties we had the organization man, who was the buttoned up, suit wearing, married man, who was in charge. Divorce was considered a bad stain on your life. School taught p***e in America, work hard, play by the rules, and you have the opportunity to succeed and become wealthy, or at least lead the life you dreamed of when at war. You are responsible for your own success or failure. The government is not there to take care of you, or give you money. We were taught the Soviets wanted to drop A bombs on us.
My HS class of 1962 was the last of that generation on campus. 1963 is when campus protests began in earnest. Then came the revolt against the stable, inhibited social mores and power structure. Vietnam, the sexual revolution, drugs, civil rights laws, the free speech movements on campus, and finally the Democratic convention r**ts, and Martin Luther King and his movement, and the Kennedy assassination. In total, it was a rising up of all of the groups who had been suppressed. It also coincided with a huge wave of the next generation of college students, none of whom had experienced growing up with war or depression. As an outgrowth, we had campus r**ts, Woodstock, drugs, and terror groups like the Weathermen, Symbionese Liberation Army and people determined to stage a revolution against what had been a well defined and white male, Protestant controlled society. Various groups took out their frustrations at the constrained and rules based society we had, which still had been discriminating against women, b****s, and Jews. The seventies was the high point of all these movements, and the violence we experienced. Things then calmed down considerably, and society began to change, with all of the suppressed groups now moving ahead, and women moving into the workplace and positions of power. Hilary Clinton, as much as many of us might despise her, was the de facto leader of showing that women can even run for president. B****s expressed their frustration by staging huge r**ts and destroying what they perceived as whitey owned stores and property. Albert Shankar, in New York, created the teachers union, and the city caved after the teacher strikes, and today the teachers unions control schools across the country, and the result is we have the failed education system, and unsustainable teachers’ pension liabilities. They also control many Democratic politicians with their massive contributions. Compare that to the fifties.
Over time, those kids from the sixties and seventies who protested, r**ted and revolted, got into positions of power on campus. They became professors, and administrators. They brought along their outrage from when they were younger, but now they had power, and the ability to influence the next generation. Those people now run the universities, and their students and children are now the professors, high school and elementary school teachers, senior reporters, and in many cases, politicians in control of large cities, judgeships, and previously of Congress and the White House. The civil rights laws of the Johnson era provided the legal structure under which Progressives could then pursue what they perceived as continuing grievances, and they had the liberal judges on the bench, especially in the ninth circuit, and for a period on the Supreme Court, to rule in their favor. Most importantly they had control of universities, and from there, the ability to influence the thinking of the next generation to their way of thinking. Combine this with the kids who grew up in elite households with helicopter parents who wanted their kids to never have to really be in need for anything. The kids were taught they were really smart and had elite rights, and a right to be in control when they grew up. Working hard and sacrificing to get wealth and power was no longer the mantra, which many of us grew up with in the fifties. Taking responsibility for one’s own success went away. Now it was all given to the kids. There was no more competition because someone has to lose and feel bad. Everyone gets a trophy just to show up. So now when they don’t get what they want, they become snowflakes, unable to cope. They become “victims”. Obama and Holder espoused a continuing rhetoric that b****s were still oppressed, and cops were r****ts. They created the victim mentality in b****s, and drove home the blame r****m rhetoric which has become a major go to excuse for failure, (Sikes in Broward) and a setback to race relations. So now when black kids whose SAT scores and high school training do not measure up, but they are admitted to top schools for “diversity”, they struggle and fail, but they blame white r****m instead of their own failure to work and study hard. They become “victims”.
Teaching of history and civics was eliminated, as it got in the way of the progressive way of thinking. If students got to understand it was the heterosexual white men who revolted in 1776, who kept the union together and died by the hundreds of thousands to free the s***es, built the great economic power of America, built the cities, the railroads and industry, and sacrificed their lives to save the rest of the world in two World Wars, made us who we are, and why America is the greatest nation on earth, that reality takes away from the progressive mantra that the past is all bad white male dominated oppression. Teaching history would let kids realize that those same white males invented many wonderful things, built great institutions, and funded the schools that they now attend, where today the kids now claim they should not honor the men who created the school, instead of being thankful they get to attend. In short, if they taught history, the younger generation might realize the white guys did a lot of really good things that allows these kids to live well and be free, and have the opportunities others in the world do not have. It was the straight white guys who reestablished the current world order in 1945, and stopped the Soviets, which allowed the EU to rebuild, and to live in peace. Progressives can’t allow that thinking because it undermines their entire rhetoric, therefore we have almost no history taught in schools.
Power corrupts. Now the progressives (far left as opposed to Democratic moderates), are in power in many places. That is why Trump got elected. The deplorables rose up and said -enough. The revolt has begun. They said we are proud to be Americans and proud of our heritage, and the constitution as it was written. Proud to be heterosexual white men who use the men’s room. We want America to be great again. We want a strong loudmouth who is not afraid to rip apart what has become the existing left wing power structure. Trump threatens everything the Progressives have power over. That is why they h**e him with such passion. Progressives want to crush anyone who threatens their hold on power, and that even includes wanting to change the first amendment so that it would say they should be free FROM speech they do not want that might threaten their hold on power and thought. We are at real risk today of George Orwell coming alive. Facebook and Google feel free to control the main media source for the next generation. Deans control what kids learn in college. Progressive principals control the lower schools curricula. The press feels free to slant reporting to fit their progressive views to influence public opinion. They attack Trump, not because he is all the crude things he is, but because he threatens their very hold on power. He uses the exact same methods as the icons of the left once did: Betty Freidan, Gloria Steinem, Jesse Jackson, Eugene McCarthy, Abbey Hoffman, and others. Loud and obnoxious. He has a bully pulpit, and the power of executive authority, and of appointment to challenge their power in ways that threaten their hold. He now controls the courts, which is the key to real power. The Kavanaugh hearings were not about the judge. They were really all about who is in power to control the next 20 years of jurisprudence. That is why holding the Senate with the power to appoint judges was so critical to the future of the nation, and why you see the fight for the senate seat in Florida. It is why Ginsberg refuses to retire, and her replacement hearings will make Kavanaugh look like a warm up. Who holds the real power for a generation or more is at stake.
I believe what we are now seeing is the updated version of an all-out fight for power in America. It is the natural pendulum law-at some point it swings the other way. Trump has set the swing in motion. It is 55 years since the first campus protests It is now left wing Progressives vs millions of us deplorables who do not agree with them being in power. Many of us believe the individual is the owner and determiner of his own destiny for which he must take personal responsibility. Progressives believe their group think is who controls the individual’s life and destiny, and the successful should be taxed because they owe the less successful and less responsible (“victims”), a living. It is an epic battle for the cultural soul of America. The history of America for the next 50 years will depend on the outcome.
I realize I have condensed 90 years of American history into a few paragraphs, so I am not trying to be a perfect reporter of all that happened. Just an observer.

Tom's Conservative Rant / A Long Read But Worth Yo... (show quote)

A dog stands by the Rainbow Bridge, he leaves his footprint for you to know he is still with you in spirit, to lighten your load and make you smile as you remember his happy bark and wagging tail. Remember that he was a special gift from God, and is still waiting for you at the bridge.

Comment Loc: California

Oldsailor65 wrote:

Tom's Conservative Rant / A Long Read But Worth Your Time

TOM'S RANT, Read this carefully. If you are over 55 and think clearly and objectively, you’ll understand why he has reached the conclusions he puts forward related to where we are today and how the last 90 years have brought us to this point. The thought that we might be heading for the Orwellian 1984 is truly scary and should cause the “thinking progressives” (is this an oxymoron) to reevaluate where they are headed.
=================================================
I had the privilege to be invited to a small private luncheon of a group of about 15 very smart, sophisticated people consisting of professors, one of whom was a professed liberal at a well-known very left college, CEO’s of hedge and PE funds, two well-known authors, and some very senior businessmen. There were 2 prominent women at lunch. It was very much like the salons of Gertrude Stein in Paris in the early 1900’s. The topic was, how did we get here, where the “Progressives” control campuses, and where free speech is under attack. Nobody has a definitive answer, but here are some of my personal conclusions based on a very lively 2 hour, free-wheeling discussion. It is not meant to represent the conclusion of the group, as there was no set conclusion when lunch ended. Just a lot of fascinating thoughts put forth.
How Did We Get Here- A History of 90 Years Of Evolution and Revolution
The depression began to unfold in 1929. After 16 years of economic depression and world war, mass murder of the holocaust, the rise of the Soviet Union and start of the cold war, and then Korea, the US needed calm, predictability, and good order, democratic government, and a belief system of strength, and stability. Women still had few rights, and were assigned to be at home raising kids who were delayed due to men being off to war. White male Protestants controlled the power. Jews were discriminated against. B****s were still oppressed. Eisenhower, the hero general, became president. Harry Truman drove himself and his wife home to Missouri in his own car.
The result was, tens of millions of people just wanted to recapture normal life, have a family, a home, a civilian job, and the opportunity to succeed. So, in the fifties we had the organization man, who was the buttoned up, suit wearing, married man, who was in charge. Divorce was considered a bad stain on your life. School taught p***e in America, work hard, play by the rules, and you have the opportunity to succeed and become wealthy, or at least lead the life you dreamed of when at war. You are responsible for your own success or failure. The government is not there to take care of you, or give you money. We were taught the Soviets wanted to drop A bombs on us.
My HS class of 1962 was the last of that generation on campus. 1963 is when campus protests began in earnest. Then came the revolt against the stable, inhibited social mores and power structure. Vietnam, the sexual revolution, drugs, civil rights laws, the free speech movements on campus, and finally the Democratic convention r**ts, and Martin Luther King and his movement, and the Kennedy assassination. In total, it was a rising up of all of the groups who had been suppressed. It also coincided with a huge wave of the next generation of college students, none of whom had experienced growing up with war or depression. As an outgrowth, we had campus r**ts, Woodstock, drugs, and terror groups like the Weathermen, Symbionese Liberation Army and people determined to stage a revolution against what had been a well defined and white male, Protestant controlled society. Various groups took out their frustrations at the constrained and rules based society we had, which still had been discriminating against women, b****s, and Jews. The seventies was the high point of all these movements, and the violence we experienced. Things then calmed down considerably, and society began to change, with all of the suppressed groups now moving ahead, and women moving into the workplace and positions of power. Hilary Clinton, as much as many of us might despise her, was the de facto leader of showing that women can even run for president. B****s expressed their frustration by staging huge r**ts and destroying what they perceived as whitey owned stores and property. Albert Shankar, in New York, created the teachers union, and the city caved after the teacher strikes, and today the teachers unions control schools across the country, and the result is we have the failed education system, and unsustainable teachers’ pension liabilities. They also control many Democratic politicians with their massive contributions. Compare that to the fifties.
Over time, those kids from the sixties and seventies who protested, r**ted and revolted, got into positions of power on campus. They became professors, and administrators. They brought along their outrage from when they were younger, but now they had power, and the ability to influence the next generation. Those people now run the universities, and their students and children are now the professors, high school and elementary school teachers, senior reporters, and in many cases, politicians in control of large cities, judgeships, and previously of Congress and the White House. The civil rights laws of the Johnson era provided the legal structure under which Progressives could then pursue what they perceived as continuing grievances, and they had the liberal judges on the bench, especially in the ninth circuit, and for a period on the Supreme Court, to rule in their favor. Most importantly they had control of universities, and from there, the ability to influence the thinking of the next generation to their way of thinking. Combine this with the kids who grew up in elite households with helicopter parents who wanted their kids to never have to really be in need for anything. The kids were taught they were really smart and had elite rights, and a right to be in control when they grew up. Working hard and sacrificing to get wealth and power was no longer the mantra, which many of us grew up with in the fifties. Taking responsibility for one’s own success went away. Now it was all given to the kids. There was no more competition because someone has to lose and feel bad. Everyone gets a trophy just to show up. So now when they don’t get what they want, they become snowflakes, unable to cope. They become “victims”. Obama and Holder espoused a continuing rhetoric that b****s were still oppressed, and cops were r****ts. They created the victim mentality in b****s, and drove home the blame r****m rhetoric which has become a major go to excuse for failure, (Sikes in Broward) and a setback to race relations. So now when black kids whose SAT scores and high school training do not measure up, but they are admitted to top schools for “diversity”, they struggle and fail, but they blame white r****m instead of their own failure to work and study hard. They become “victims”.
Teaching of history and civics was eliminated, as it got in the way of the progressive way of thinking. If students got to understand it was the heterosexual white men who revolted in 1776, who kept the union together and died by the hundreds of thousands to free the s***es, built the great economic power of America, built the cities, the railroads and industry, and sacrificed their lives to save the rest of the world in two World Wars, made us who we are, and why America is the greatest nation on earth, that reality takes away from the progressive mantra that the past is all bad white male dominated oppression. Teaching history would let kids realize that those same white males invented many wonderful things, built great institutions, and funded the schools that they now attend, where today the kids now claim they should not honor the men who created the school, instead of being thankful they get to attend. In short, if they taught history, the younger generation might realize the white guys did a lot of really good things that allows these kids to live well and be free, and have the opportunities others in the world do not have. It was the straight white guys who reestablished the current world order in 1945, and stopped the Soviets, which allowed the EU to rebuild, and to live in peace. Progressives can’t allow that thinking because it undermines their entire rhetoric, therefore we have almost no history taught in schools.
Power corrupts. Now the progressives (far left as opposed to Democratic moderates), are in power in many places. That is why Trump got elected. The deplorables rose up and said -enough. The revolt has begun. They said we are proud to be Americans and proud of our heritage, and the constitution as it was written. Proud to be heterosexual white men who use the men’s room. We want America to be great again. We want a strong loudmouth who is not afraid to rip apart what has become the existing left wing power structure. Trump threatens everything the Progressives have power over. That is why they h**e him with such passion. Progressives want to crush anyone who threatens their hold on power, and that even includes wanting to change the first amendment so that it would say they should be free FROM speech they do not want that might threaten their hold on power and thought. We are at real risk today of George Orwell coming alive. Facebook and Google feel free to control the main media source for the next generation. Deans control what kids learn in college. Progressive principals control the lower schools curricula. The press feels free to slant reporting to fit their progressive views to influence public opinion. They attack Trump, not because he is all the crude things he is, but because he threatens their very hold on power. He uses the exact same methods as the icons of the left once did: Betty Freidan, Gloria Steinem, Jesse Jackson, Eugene McCarthy, Abbey Hoffman, and others. Loud and obnoxious. He has a bully pulpit, and the power of executive authority, and of appointment to challenge their power in ways that threaten their hold. He now controls the courts, which is the key to real power. The Kavanaugh hearings were not about the judge. They were really all about who is in power to control the next 20 years of jurisprudence. That is why holding the Senate with the power to appoint judges was so critical to the future of the nation, and why you see the fight for the senate seat in Florida. It is why Ginsberg refuses to retire, and her replacement hearings will make Kavanaugh look like a warm up. Who holds the real power for a generation or more is at stake.
I believe what we are now seeing is the updated version of an all-out fight for power in America. It is the natural pendulum law-at some point it swings the other way. Trump has set the swing in motion. It is 55 years since the first campus protests It is now left wing Progressives vs millions of us deplorables who do not agree with them being in power. Many of us believe the individual is the owner and determiner of his own destiny for which he must take personal responsibility. Progressives believe their group think is who controls the individual’s life and destiny, and the successful should be taxed because they owe the less successful and less responsible (“victims”), a living. It is an epic battle for the cultural soul of America. The history of America for the next 50 years will depend on the outcome.
I realize I have condensed 90 years of American history into a few paragraphs, so I am not trying to be a perfect reporter of all that happened. Just an observer.

Tom's Conservative Rant / A Long Read But Worth Yo... (show quote)

Thank you Sailor Man. i couldn't have said it better.