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Jack Nessan:
--- Quote from: Lance Payette on September 13, 2025, 08:05:28 PM ---We got started down the path with the term "worse" and stayed with that, but I really don't think "worse" is the right term. With all the turmoil of the sixties and seventies, I never felt America itself was at risk. I never felt I was seeing or participating in a war of culture and ideology that had the potential to turn America into something the Founding Fathers never would have recognized and would have abhorred. "Existential threat" is an overused term these days, but it comes closer to capturing what I think the difference is. Nothing in the sixties was an existential threat to the America we had always known, but today (I believe) we are in a genuine war of culture and ideology that is existentially threatening (which some people, of course, think is a good thing). There is a reason Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" resonates with so many people.
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You are absolutely correct. If it is better or worse is just perspective. Today though we are very fractionated and turning on each other. I thought it all could come apart during the previous election cycle when the two extremist groups fighting in Portland were shooting paintball guns at each other. It would not have taken much to set if off for real. It is definitely closer than we want to believe.
In the 60’s the common belief was it was just the youth wanting a change and there was no need to worry about the unrest until older people were protesting. Today it is not so much the youth but the older people protesting.
I would hope we do not come apart. I have warned my children that they do not ever want that to happen. Sometimes I think we just lack an external villain to keep us focused like after Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
Royell Storing:
--- Quote from: Tom Graves on September 13, 2025, 10:00:06 PM ---But evidently you do agree most of the things he's done.
Pity that.
I'm afraid "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin cherishes both of you.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R5O4eJlu5g
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You're in the minority. Put a sock in it or peddle your stuff in NY or Calif. The nut jobs have clustered there and completely ruined those states. You'll fit in nicely.
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Royell Storing on September 14, 2025, 07:19:37 AM ---You're in the minority. Put a sock in it or peddle your stuff in NY or Calif. The nut jobs have clustered there and completely ruined those states. You'll fit in nicely.
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Comrade Storing,
You and your zombified-by-KGB-disinformation MAGAT ilk are so full of beans, I can smell you from here.
-- Tom
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