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| Richard Nixon & Lyndon Johnson |
By Thornton Crowe
Never was there a year so pivotal in our history...that is, until now.
Millennials weren't around in that fateful year but many baby boomers remember 1968 well. Some of us were little kids but the year was so devastating in our history, it was even felt on a child's level. Many young ones, having no idea about '68, don't grasp when political pundits brings it up, how America was torn apart at the seams.
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| Chicago Rioters |
Hippies of love provided a stark contrast because while love may have been abundant in the Haight-Ashbury culture, social unrest was everywhere else. Vietnam had become wildly unpopular. Two assassinations of prominent Political and Civil Rights heroes had come the Spring before the Democratic National Convention, which was fraught with violence in Chicago's streets. In short, the country was in turmoil - in every way possible.
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. & Robert Kennedy |
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in April caused major disturbances throughout the black community everywhere. In Salisbury, the area where most of the black families lived, was ablaze for a couple days as they burned their homes down, which took many years to rebuild. Two months late, in June, Bobby Kennedy, running for the Democrat nomination was gunned down in Los Angeles at the infamous Ambassador Hotel. Ironically, it was Bobby who preached to the black community not to riot upon news of King's death. Both assassinations hit at the heart of America's youth and minorities as both King and Kennedy were their voice against the status quo.
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| Vietnam |
President Lyndon Johnson, by this point, was unpopular with young men because every week, more and more were sent to Vietnam to fight a war many couldn't understand why we were involved. As the first televised war, every night at 6:00pm sharp, Vietnam came into every living room across the country, giving us horror images that have remained ingrained in our minds ever since.
After Johnson decided to not run for re-election, pandemonium reigned the months leading up to the DNC convention. And we all know it worked out; the summer's riots, many believe, have much to do with the outcome.
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| Presidential Candidates: Donald J. Trump & Hillary Clinton |
As we now watch each violent riot unfold on our big flatscreens, we feel the same fears and apprehension felt in that tumultuous year many decades ago. With the brazen lawlessness, a sense of urgency as America spirals out of control with special interest groups taking us hostage with their chants while shutting down free speech - at least, speech they don't agree with - forcing themselves on us.
Is it the candidates' fault? Not really. This kettle started simmering when Obama began dividing people into categories; pitting one against the other. It also comes from local governments issuing stand down orders to its police force, thus, letting physical assaults and property destruction run rampant without consequence.
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| San Jose Rioters |
America is, yet once again, at another fateful crossroads where we must decide whether
to restore prosperity to all people rather than a chosen few or continue to spiral down
into a country devoid of its sovereignty and the eradication of its 200+
year old Constitution, once and for all.
Is this the
last election we'll ever have as a republic...or has the Silent Majority re-awoken?
How say you?
Democrats benefit when the culture is unstable and violent.
ReplyDeleteI'd say that Democrats cause instability in our culture. They are too submissive to the wants of minorities while ignoring the majority's needs. Think you'll find this election will have a similar result as 1968. Law and order only comes with one candidate.
ReplyDeleteWhether people like it or not, Law & Order will only happen if Trump is elected. Everybody knows Hillary will enhance the violence. She will allow George Soros to convert the US to a country of "SLAVES", Politically Correct known as "Socialism". Look at the facts. The question is do you want to be another Germany or Venezuela? Do you want to persecuted if you do not become a "SLAVE" of the Government. Do you want the US to become a country of "SLAVES" instead of "Human Beings" with choices?
ReplyDeleteConcerned Retiree, it really comes down to Sovereignty verses Swallowed Up Into Globalism.
ReplyDeleteThanks to all for your comments thus far!
The Democrat Party is the behind the instability and is the single largest source of evil in the world. What will the American people do?
ReplyDelete@thorntoncrowe point well taken a simplified version
ReplyDeleteSo sad that there are still people out there thinking that being a member of a club that is trying to get the first woman president in office for it's own sake of seeing a woman President are so "Gung-Ho" that they cannot foresee the result of their decision. That they are supporting a Treasonous person who has a criminal background and id currently under FBI investigation for allowing National Secrets available to any hackers out there for years, and is responsible for the deaths of 4 of our best in Libya.
ReplyDeleteEspecially when they have a choice of choosing a successful businessman millionaire who has no criminal investigations and is wildly successful in all he endeavored to do, built a successful empire in a Country he loves, and only wants to share the same opportunities with all of us.
Somehow, I cannot support the Democratic, communist party at all, no matter who they support, but especially the Hildabeast.