(02-18-2022 11:00 AM)Hootyhoo Wrote:  When you're talking about pro-white advocacy, 100 year immigration bans from 3rd world countries and repatriating the "3rd world invaders" being the most important issues, it's hard to think this guy isnt using conservatism as a cover for racism.

Abortion? Eh, we don't care just don't be from India.

The environment? You know whatever. Land is good, we should try not to destroy the world. But mostly just get those damn south Americans out of my environment.

Free market? You know what, it's a little overrated. But it might work better without those damn brown people ruining it for us.

C'mon man. There is no way this guy is actually representative of young conservatives. I totally understand wanting less immigration. I agree with it. But this is extreme.

And if it is young conservatives today, wouldn't they be zoomers and not millennials?

I agree some of this is pretty far fetched. You can’t just reach up and turn off the faucet so to speak on immigration. This situation is going to take real leadership and no one wants to get their hands dirty. I personally don’t care what color people are as long as they are decent.

I will say this and it’s not always popular. All the time I hear where this country doesn’t need old white guys running it. Seems contradictory to me. Name me one country ran by people of color that everyone wants to be a part of? Just one.


I do not espouse an all white society as we are all God’s creation and his children. We need to coalesce regardless of color and stand firm against the impending demise of our freedoms.

(02-18-2022 09:42 AM)Gamenole Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 07:53 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  It’s no wonder conservatism is morphing into something that makes present day conservatives like Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun and Ted Cruz look like political extremists.

Things have certainly changed with the parties. What is frightening to me, and finally drove me out of the GOP, is to see it shift from a party of ideas to one of conspiracy theories and obstructionism. The greatest President of my lifetime, Ronald Reagan, would be called a RINO today and in many states probably couldn't get through the Republican primary.

Ronald Reagan was the most conservative President to win since 1928 when Calvin Coolidge was elected. A span of some 52 years.

If you think Reagan would be another Romney today you don’t understand basic conservative principles. That might be the root of your problem.

The only party that’s changed radically since Reagan is the Democratic Party. Carter would be a Conservative Republican today. Clinton might well be a Republican like Lisa Murcowski.

The Democratic Party of Carter and Clinton no longer exists. Obama and his radical agenda moved the Democratic Party so far to the Left, Socialist, Marxist and Communist principles are now openly discussed within The Democratic Party. With Obama’s work to radicalize his party, Bernie who sounded like a nut job in the Senate for years now has a squad: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. That’s 5 votes this administration must pander with legislation. That process is trying to move the Democratic Party even further to the Left. This administration made promises to this Far-Left element just to win the White House.

Thankfully the last principled Democrats, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have stopped legislation that would pander to the Far-Left of the party.

All the moving to the Far-Left makes the Republican Party look like a party Centralists, which it obviously isn’t. Trump’s popularity is a result of the same conservative principles that swept Reagan into Oval Office.

It’s no coincidence Donald Trump was / is the 10th most conservative president to ever occupy the White House. It’s easy to see why radicals in the Democratic Party have so much hate for the man…

https://710keel.com/who-were-americas-mo...residents/

(02-18-2022 09:45 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 08:52 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  "However there are so many examples of boomers taking so much that basically fell into their laps after WW2 and destroying it for future generations". Can you provide some examples of that please?

1. How about destroying an entire economy after WW2 that was America first? That's a subject in and of itself. How many good paying middle-class jobs were outsourced? Blame unions or politicians makes no difference to me. It happened under the boomer generation's watch.
2. Vietnam era, free love, drug culture, etc lead to the destruction of our education system
3. Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon
4. Failing to get a handle on inflation.
5. Didn't maintain our infrastructure worth a crap. Most of it was built pre-WW2.
6. Housing bubble of the early 2000s.
7. Explosion of the welfare state.
8. Ignoring JFK and Eisenhower's warnings on the military-industrial complex, or worse partaking in it.
9. Writing off Joe McCarthy as a loon and ignoring legitimate points he was making. See #2 above. Clearly Communists have been at work in education since at least the 50's.

Again... I'm talking about the boomer generation as a whole, the politicians they're responsible for voting for, not you or my parents as individuals. It all happened under the boomers' watch.

You were preaching to the choir. My parents both lost fathers very young and grew up in near poverty, especially my father. However he belonged to a trade union that was primarily cared about their own self-interests above all else with little regard for thinking about how it would effect things downstream. He's not a bad guy. He's a Christian but he's a classic example of somebody that wasn't paying attention and didn't bother trying to understand what the above would lead to. He's not personally responsible exactly but there are too many like him who were asleep at the wheel.

You might want to check the dates of many of those events. Several happened when the majority of boomers were barely eligible to vote much less hold significant political power.

(02-18-2022 04:42 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 09:42 AM)Gamenole Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 07:53 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  It’s no wonder conservatism is morphing into something that makes present day conservatives like Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun and Ted Cruz look like political extremists.

Things have certainly changed with the parties. What is frightening to me, and finally drove me out of the GOP, is to see it shift from a party of ideas to one of conspiracy theories and obstructionism. The greatest President of my lifetime, Ronald Reagan, would be called a RINO today and in many states probably couldn't get through the Republican primary.

Ronald Reagan was the most conservative President to win since 1928 when Calvin Coolidge was elected. A span of some 52 years.

If you think Reagan would be another Romney today you don’t understand basic conservative principles. That might be the root of your problem.

The only party that’s changed radically since Reagan is the Democratic Party. Carter would be a Conservative Republican today. Clinton might well be a Republican like Lisa Murcowski.

The Democratic Party of Carter and Clinton no longer exists. Obama and his radical agenda moved the Democratic Party so far to the Left, Socialist, Marxist and Communist principles are now openly discussed within The Democratic Party. With Obama’s work to radicalize his party, Bernie who sounded like a nut job in the Senate for years now has a squad: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. That’s 5 votes this administration must pander with legislation. That process is trying to move the Democratic Party even further to the Left. This administration made promises to this Far-Left element just to win the White House.

Thankfully the last principled Democrats, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have stopped legislation that would pander to the Far-Left of the party.

All the moving to the Far-Left makes the Republican Party look like a party Centralists, which it obviously isn’t. Trump’s popularity is a result of the same conservative principles that swept Reagan into Oval Office.

It’s no coincidence Donald Trump was / is the 10th most conservative president to ever occupy the White House. It’s easy to see why radicals in the Democratic Party have so much hate for the man…

https://710keel.com/who-were-americas-mo...residents/

+2

It’s remarkable how closely Trump’s policies mirrored Reagan’s. I suppose for people who grew up under W Bush, that his (Trump’s) admin may seem anathema to what they think is Conservatism, but Donald’s stated policy goals were very Reaganesque.

I don’t think 70’s Carter or Humphrey or whomever would be a Republican today, but I think every single president from JFK back, with the exceptions of fdr and wilson would be in play.

The political left in this country would be unrecognizable to their voters of 25-30 years ago, and the dems of 70 years ago are surely spinning in their graves as these derelicts push:

crt,

trannyism in our schools, leading to rapes/assaults of our daughters by boys in skirts and the erasing from history books of the records our daughters,

1619,

burn loot murder,

The false narrative that the spike in crime against Asians and Jews was due to “white supremacy” and not executed by a bunch of black kids,

The false “I can’t breathe” narrative,

Ignoring that trayvon martin was a thug who fafo

defund the police,

shutting down pipelines that are safer than other means of oil/gas transport,

the fantasies I’ve listened to for 35 years that we’re in for impending climate doom,

a US rep wondering about the island of Guam tipping over,

allowing dem government officials (and celebrities!) to go unmasked while they force our most vulnerable (kids) to have their cognitive and physical health endangered through mask mandates,

Vaccine mandates for American citizens but not Illegal Aliens,

Open borders for purely political gain,

Funding of abortion with our tax dollars, both domestically and in foreign countries,

Allowing chinese spies into our universities, defense contractors, and financial institutions, allowing our primary adversary to siphon off our intellectual property,

False narratives around foreign collusion when hillary’s campaign was the one who hired a foreign spy to collude with Russians and Ukrainians,

The narrative that it was perfectly fine for mayor Pete to go on sabbatical during one of the worst supply chain crises in our history.


If someone can support any of this crap, they’re not a Conservative, or to paraphrase the mushhead in chief, “you ain’t a Republican”. And never were one.

I cast my first vote for Ronald. That was the only time in a Presidential election I was proud of who I voted for until I cast a vote for Trump. I doubt I’m the only one.

(02-18-2022 11:18 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 09:45 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 08:52 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  "However there are so many examples of boomers taking so much that basically fell into their laps after WW2 and destroying it for future generations". Can you provide some examples of that please?

1. How about destroying an entire economy after WW2 that was America first? That's a subject in and of itself. How many good paying middle-class jobs were outsourced? Blame unions or politicians makes no difference to me. It happened under the boomer generation's watch.
2. Vietnam era, free love, drug culture, etc lead to the destruction of our education system
3. Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon
4. Failing to get a handle on inflation.
5. Didn't maintain our infrastructure worth a crap. Most of it was built pre-WW2.
6. Housing bubble of the early 2000s.
7. Explosion of the welfare state.
8. Ignoring JFK and Eisenhower's warnings on the military-industrial complex, or worse partaking in it.
9. Writing off Joe McCarthy as a loon and ignoring legitimate points he was making. See #2 above. Clearly Communists have been at work in education since at least the 50's.

Again... I'm talking about the boomer generation as a whole, the politicians they're responsible for voting for, not you or my parents as individuals. It all happened under the boomers' watch.

You were preaching to the choir. My parents both lost fathers very young and grew up in near poverty, especially my father. However he belonged to a trade union that was primarily cared about their own self-interests above all else with little regard for thinking about how it would effect things downstream. He's not a bad guy. He's a Christian but he's a classic example of somebody that wasn't paying attention and didn't bother trying to understand what the above would lead to. He's not personally responsible exactly but there are too many like him who were asleep at the wheel.

You might want to check the dates of many of those events. Several happened when the majority of boomers were barely eligible to vote much less hold significant political power.

He asked for examples. He got them. They were at least in their 20s.

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(02-19-2022 12:33 PM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 11:18 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 09:45 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 08:52 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  "However there are so many examples of boomers taking so much that basically fell into their laps after WW2 and destroying it for future generations". Can you provide some examples of that please?

1. How about destroying an entire economy after WW2 that was America first? That's a subject in and of itself. How many good paying middle-class jobs were outsourced? Blame unions or politicians makes no difference to me. It happened under the boomer generation's watch.
2. Vietnam era, free love, drug culture, etc lead to the destruction of our education system
3. Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon
4. Failing to get a handle on inflation.
5. Didn't maintain our infrastructure worth a crap. Most of it was built pre-WW2.
6. Housing bubble of the early 2000s.
7. Explosion of the welfare state.
8. Ignoring JFK and Eisenhower's warnings on the military-industrial complex, or worse partaking in it.
9. Writing off Joe McCarthy as a loon and ignoring legitimate points he was making. See #2 above. Clearly Communists have been at work in education since at least the 50's.

Again... I'm talking about the boomer generation as a whole, the politicians they're responsible for voting for, not you or my parents as individuals. It all happened under the boomers' watch.

You were preaching to the choir. My parents both lost fathers very young and grew up in near poverty, especially my father. However he belonged to a trade union that was primarily cared about their own self-interests above all else with little regard for thinking about how it would effect things downstream. He's not a bad guy. He's a Christian but he's a classic example of somebody that wasn't paying attention and didn't bother trying to understand what the above would lead to. He's not personally responsible exactly but there are too many like him who were asleep at the wheel.

You might want to check the dates of many of those events. Several happened when the majority of boomers were barely eligible to vote much less hold significant political power.

He asked for examples. He got them. They were at least in their 20s.

The Boomer generation is basically those people born between 1945 and 1963/4.

You might read the book "Generations". It was published in the early 90's and goes into good details about characteristics of generations over the course of a lifetime. The authors assigned a 22 year period to their four "groups" people go through over a lifetime: birth to 22 (child), 22-44 (young adult), 44-66 (leadership adult), 67+ (mature adult).

So Vietnam - as an example - the EARLIEST Boomers born in 1945 through 1953 were the infantry and the Greatest Generation were the officers especially the Generals that planned and executed that insane war.

I would also warrant a very small percentage of Boomers voted for Nixon. Most Boomers I know started voting with Reagan. "Free love" happens in all generations especially in college. Drug use did explode in the 70's/80's.

Inflation has grown steadily since Nixon took the US Dollar off the gold standard in August 1971 (it was the REAL reason he was forced to resign; Watergate was the public reason sold to America). The funny thing is gold backing of the dollar was SLOWLY withdrawn over a 5 year period, so the pain of inflation hit in 1976. Carter was elected President and stepped into a disaster. Interest rates took off around 1976/77 and I remember when gas hit $1.00/gallon around 1978 or so.

Check out the debt growth here: https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt...ts-3306287

The US dollar was legitimately strong when backed by gold; the debt will continue to skyrocket as long as this fiat currency is backed by the "full faith of the US Govt."

For the record, Nixon was a member of the Greatest Generation. The first Boomer POTUS was Clinton. So were Bush 2, Obama, and Trump. Biden was born in 1943 - he's NOT a Boomer, but a late Greatest Generation. I think must people agree he has been a disaster thus far.

(02-19-2022 11:32 PM)boss man Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 12:33 PM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 11:18 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 09:45 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 08:52 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  "However there are so many examples of boomers taking so much that basically fell into their laps after WW2 and destroying it for future generations". Can you provide some examples of that please?

1. How about destroying an entire economy after WW2 that was America first? That's a subject in and of itself. How many good paying middle-class jobs were outsourced? Blame unions or politicians makes no difference to me. It happened under the boomer generation's watch.
2. Vietnam era, free love, drug culture, etc lead to the destruction of our education system
3. Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon
4. Failing to get a handle on inflation.
5. Didn't maintain our infrastructure worth a crap. Most of it was built pre-WW2.
6. Housing bubble of the early 2000s.
7. Explosion of the welfare state.
8. Ignoring JFK and Eisenhower's warnings on the military-industrial complex, or worse partaking in it.
9. Writing off Joe McCarthy as a loon and ignoring legitimate points he was making. See #2 above. Clearly Communists have been at work in education since at least the 50's.

Again... I'm talking about the boomer generation as a whole, the politicians they're responsible for voting for, not you or my parents as individuals. It all happened under the boomers' watch.

You were preaching to the choir. My parents both lost fathers very young and grew up in near poverty, especially my father. However he belonged to a trade union that was primarily cared about their own self-interests above all else with little regard for thinking about how it would effect things downstream. He's not a bad guy. He's a Christian but he's a classic example of somebody that wasn't paying attention and didn't bother trying to understand what the above would lead to. He's not personally responsible exactly but there are too many like him who were asleep at the wheel.

You might want to check the dates of many of those events. Several happened when the majority of boomers were barely eligible to vote much less hold significant political power.

He asked for examples. He got them. They were at least in their 20s.

The Boomer generation is basically those people born between 1945 and 1963/4.

You might read the book "Generations". It was published in the early 90's and goes into good details about characteristics of generations over the course of a lifetime. The authors assigned a 22 year period to their four "groups" people go through over a lifetime: birth to 22 (child), 22-44 (young adult), 44-66 (leadership adult), 67+ (mature adult).

So Vietnam - as an example - the EARLIEST Boomers born in 1945 through 1953 were the infantry and the Greatest Generation were the officers especially the Generals that planned and executed that insane war.

I would also warrant a very small percentage of Boomers voted for Nixon. Most Boomers I know started voting with Reagan. "Free love" happens in all generations especially in college. Drug use did explode in the 70's/80's.

Inflation has grown steadily since Nixon took the US Dollar off the gold standard in August 1971 (it was the REAL reason he was forced to resign; Watergate was the public reason sold to America). The funny thing is gold backing of the dollar was SLOWLY withdrawn over a 5 year period, so the pain of inflation hit in 1976. Carter was elected President and stepped into a disaster. Interest rates took off around 1976/77 and I remember when gas hit $1.00/gallon around 1978 or so.

Check out the debt growth here: https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt...ts-3306287

The US dollar was legitimately strong when backed by gold; the debt will continue to skyrocket as long as this fiat currency is backed by the "full faith of the US Govt."

For the record, Nixon was a member of the Greatest Generation. The first Boomer POTUS was Clinton. So were Bush 2, Obama, and Trump. Biden was born in 1943 - he's NOT a Boomer, but a late Greatest Generation. I think must people agree he has been a disaster thus far.

I think you may be commingling the Greatest Generation and the subsequent Silent Generation. "The (greatest) generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. The Silent Generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. I wish Biden would act as his generations name suggest.

(02-18-2022 09:45 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 08:52 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  "However there are so many examples of boomers taking so much that basically fell into their laps after WW2 and destroying it for future generations". Can you provide some examples of that please?

1. How about destroying an entire economy after WW2 that was America first? That's a subject in and of itself. How many good paying middle-class jobs were outsourced? Blame unions or politicians makes no difference to me. It happened under the boomer generation's watch.
2. Vietnam era, free love, drug culture, etc lead to the destruction of our education system
3. Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon
4. Failing to get a handle on inflation.
5. Didn't maintain our infrastructure worth a crap. Most of it was built pre-WW2.
6. Housing bubble of the early 2000s.
7. Explosion of the welfare state.
8. Ignoring JFK and Eisenhower's warnings on the military-industrial complex, or worse partaking in it.
9. Writing off Joe McCarthy as a loon and ignoring legitimate points he was making. See #2 above. Clearly Communists have been at work in education since at least the 50's.

Again... I'm talking about the boomer generation as a whole, the politicians they're responsible for voting for, not you or my parents as individuals. It all happened under the boomers' watch.

You were preaching to the choir. My parents both lost fathers very young and grew up in near poverty, especially my father. However he belonged to a trade union that was primarily cared about their own self-interests above all else with little regard for thinking about how it would effect things downstream. He's not a bad guy. He's a Christian but he's a classic example of somebody that wasn't paying attention and didn't bother trying to understand what the above would lead to. He's not personally responsible exactly but there are too many like him who were asleep at the wheel.

You make some valid points. Although not a boomer by a year I disagree with your overall premise. I do agree that those folks like my Grandparents who were born at the turn of the 1900s thorough the 1920s built this nation they also raised spoiled kids. Therein lies the problem. I’ve never understood why parents want to sugarcoat and insulate their children from the childhood hardships they had. I not talking about physical and mental abuse so no one needs to go there. I’m talking about doing chores and be held accountable and actually doing things that need to be done instead of pampering kids. Another thing that I truly believe changed is that most of this generation grew up in agriculture setting which requires hard work and discipline when you depend on your own farming skills as well as meat from your livestock and poultry.

That changed as people moved to the suburbs or city. Basically from that point forward parents want their kids to have an easier life than they had. To me it’s hogwash. Kids need to learn early on how things are and only hardwork discipline and dedication will help them succeed. I had a Christian black high school coach who was very strict and had no problem laying the paddle to your backside. If your cursed he spelled the word on your backside so it was imperative to only say the 4 letter ones. I had great respect and admiration for him and his family as he accepted no excuses and the product of his family shows. I can still hear him saying IF you don’t have the THREE D’s in life you are going nowhere. Desire Determination & Discipline.

It’s hard to have the THREE D’s when parents want to hand their kids everything. As you can see we are all paying for it now.

(02-20-2022 09:24 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 11:32 PM)boss man Wrote:  

(02-19-2022 12:33 PM)b2b Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 11:18 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 09:45 AM)b2b Wrote:  1. How about destroying an entire economy after WW2 that was America first? That's a subject in and of itself. How many good paying middle-class jobs were outsourced? Blame unions or politicians makes no difference to me. It happened under the boomer generation's watch.
2. Vietnam era, free love, drug culture, etc lead to the destruction of our education system
3. Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon
4. Failing to get a handle on inflation.
5. Didn't maintain our infrastructure worth a crap. Most of it was built pre-WW2.
6. Housing bubble of the early 2000s.
7. Explosion of the welfare state.
8. Ignoring JFK and Eisenhower's warnings on the military-industrial complex, or worse partaking in it.
9. Writing off Joe McCarthy as a loon and ignoring legitimate points he was making. See #2 above. Clearly Communists have been at work in education since at least the 50's.

Again... I'm talking about the boomer generation as a whole, the politicians they're responsible for voting for, not you or my parents as individuals. It all happened under the boomers' watch.

You were preaching to the choir. My parents both lost fathers very young and grew up in near poverty, especially my father. However he belonged to a trade union that was primarily cared about their own self-interests above all else with little regard for thinking about how it would effect things downstream. He's not a bad guy. He's a Christian but he's a classic example of somebody that wasn't paying attention and didn't bother trying to understand what the above would lead to. He's not personally responsible exactly but there are too many like him who were asleep at the wheel.

You might want to check the dates of many of those events. Several happened when the majority of boomers were barely eligible to vote much less hold significant political power.

He asked for examples. He got them. They were at least in their 20s.

The Boomer generation is basically those people born between 1945 and 1963/4.

You might read the book "Generations". It was published in the early 90's and goes into good details about characteristics of generations over the course of a lifetime. The authors assigned a 22 year period to their four "groups" people go through over a lifetime: birth to 22 (child), 22-44 (young adult), 44-66 (leadership adult), 67+ (mature adult).

So Vietnam - as an example - the EARLIEST Boomers born in 1945 through 1953 were the infantry and the Greatest Generation were the officers especially the Generals that planned and executed that insane war.

I would also warrant a very small percentage of Boomers voted for Nixon. Most Boomers I know started voting with Reagan. "Free love" happens in all generations especially in college. Drug use did explode in the 70's/80's.

Inflation has grown steadily since Nixon took the US Dollar off the gold standard in August 1971 (it was the REAL reason he was forced to resign; Watergate was the public reason sold to America). The funny thing is gold backing of the dollar was SLOWLY withdrawn over a 5 year period, so the pain of inflation hit in 1976. Carter was elected President and stepped into a disaster. Interest rates took off around 1976/77 and I remember when gas hit $1.00/gallon around 1978 or so.

Check out the debt growth here: https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt...ts-3306287

The US dollar was legitimately strong when backed by gold; the debt will continue to skyrocket as long as this fiat currency is backed by the "full faith of the US Govt."

For the record, Nixon was a member of the Greatest Generation. The first Boomer POTUS was Clinton. So were Bush 2, Obama, and Trump. Biden was born in 1943 - he's NOT a Boomer, but a late Greatest Generation. I think must people agree he has been a disaster thus far.

I think you may be commingling the Greatest Generation and the subsequent Silent Generation. "The (greatest) generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. The Silent Generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. I wish Biden would act as his generations name suggest.

Ah, thank you. I did overlook that. My father was at the tail end of the Greatest Generation so I didn't hear much about the Silent Generation. Amen regarding the desire for Biden behaving as his Generational name promulgates.

(02-20-2022 11:25 AM)boss man Wrote:  

(02-20-2022 09:24 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  I think you may be commingling the Greatest Generation and the subsequent Silent Generation. "The (greatest) generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. The Silent Generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. I wish Biden would act as his generations name suggest.

Ah, thank you. I did overlook that. My father was at the tail end of the Greatest Generation so I didn't hear much about the Silent Generation. Amen regarding the desire for Biden behaving as his Generational name promulgates.

My dad was at the front end of the Silent Generation, and in fact was in Fort Dix, NJ boot camp in Aug., 1945 when the bomb dropped. He would not have been in the first wave if we’d had to invade Japan, but he would have only been a few steps behind. His unit went on to be part of the Japanese occupation force, but he was among those honorably discharged early by the Army in the post-war scale down in forces.

My dad never talked much about his short service when my uncles got to drinking and comparing stories. I didn’t think it bothered him any (why should it?) until one day he saw me reading “Pegasus Bridge” by Stephen Ambrose. Out of the blue he said to me “I was ready and willing to go fight. I just never got the chance.” It surprised me, and somehow made me feel a bit wistful for him

(02-18-2022 09:07 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 09:03 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 08:57 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(02-18-2022 08:14 AM)Bronco14 Wrote:  I disagree w/ is their abortion stance.
Plus, it's not a boomer issue, today's Dems would like to see it expanded.

I also disagree w/ their immigration ban.

This.

I also disagree about their stance on tariffs. Tariffs generally hurt the poor and middle class because tariffs raise prices for everyone in order to benefit a few favored classes of workers who generally are in industries that have stopped growing domestically and have stopped hiring young Americans (steel workers, chip manufacturers).



Pretty much the only revelation on this thing to the current conservative political discussion is the environmental stewardship part.

How is that revelatory? It is after all the basis for conservatism. The wheel is in constant motion so it should be no surprise that it would eventually come back around to it's origins.

Conservatives usually label themselves as being "against" environmentalism. Even in conversations with each other.

But this points out (correctly, I believe) that young conservatives are not against environmentalism; just against the Left's version of environmentalism.

Hunh

I see and hear quite the opposite IRT conservationism and being good stewards of our environments.

Maybe it’s just my “bubble” but the people I know, hang out with, consider friends are all one of or all of hunters, fisherman, boaters, hikers, campers, surfers, sailors, photographers and many other things.

THEY are the stewards of those environments. They’re the people that stay late or return to the beach and pick up bag after bag of the “green crowds” trash and garbage.

They NEED clean air and water for their oyster spat to thrive, to have the stunning rockfish runs to continue for their livelihoods or weekend family outings. They’d never intentionally dump anything in a river or stream or throw trash overboard or whatever.

They’re the ones that go on their hikes with the camera around their neck (not in their back pocket) and with the camera they take a trash bag or two. To, again, pick up the trash left behind by the “environmentalists”.

You ever been to an Earth day rally? I have, several times at the Washington monument in D.C. and on the Mall there.

And yes, we stayed after most had departed to help pick up the hundreds if not thousands of bags of trash and garbage left behind by the Earth Day celebrants.

People that use and enjoy the land and water, protect the land and water. Otherwise they’ll have neither for their kids and grandkids.

(02-19-2022 09:45 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I cast my first vote for Ronald. That was the only time in a Presidential election I was proud of who I voted for until I cast a vote for Trump. I doubt I’m the only one.

Not the only one at all. Im in the same boat with one small change/addition.

I happily got up early and headed to our polls to pull the lever (color in the little oval) for W. I think that lasted about 2-1/2 years before I dropped my RNC membership.

Am still proud and grateful we managed to largely avoid that nut Algore from ever occupying the Oval tho. But that’s about it.

I wonder how many boomers ran for their school boards? How many actually paid attention to what was being taught? How many blindly sent their students off to university and paid the way without any regard for their major?

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