ARE we now a SCARED, MEAN, AND MURDEROUS NATION?

From JFK to Today

If you've been following this blog, you know that my first vote in a presidential election occurred in 1960.  Torn between the segregationist politics of LBJ and the sleaziness of Tricky Dick, it was a tough choice.

The mean politics and assassinations of our leaders that took place within eight years of that election circumscribed a dark period in our nation's history.  It was a darker period than the decade of the fifties that gave us McCarthyism, Civil Rights turmoil and the beginnings of the Vietnam War.  In 1968, when the average baby-boomer was 21,  the entire world suffered as a Youth Rebellion.

And those were our fat years!

We're being told, slowly, about the involvement of our politicians and federal government agencies, like the FBI, in the assassinations of the sixties.  The period also gave us the extreme political rhetoric of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.  The moderate elements of our two major parties began to fade, only to be replaced by more extreme and larcinous politicians.

Over that time, as the baby-boomers grew from age 13 to 65, we now have grid-locked, wacko government in the Congress of the United States, and organizations like Zocalo Public Square, Cal Humanities, and the Institute for Civility and Politics wonder where the "civility" went.  At this writing, we have baby-boomers turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 per day, and are projected to do that for the next 19 years!

Add to all of this the fact that we're entering a period of lean years, and you see why we're scared, mean, and murder stalks our city streets and movie theaters.  Mad Ronnie Reagan, (he described himself that way), kicked this trend into high gear in 1980. 

In 2012 the voters have to get our federal legislature "off the dime" and back to work solving our nation's major problems, like, preparing for a sick and ageing population,  and ending theft and craziness in Congress.  Pick a party that will not consider Compromise, the "genius" of our form of goverment as "Evil".  Vote out all members who support grid-lock, and put in people who will change the rules of the place so that we can work on our problems.  The well-financed media attempts to place blame for all of the above on the current occupant of the White House must be blunted and ignored. 

Stay Vigilant!  The fiscal health and the very survival of the nation is at stake!

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