Will the U.S. "Decline" into "RED-NECK"-ery"??
As I get closer to 76 (next week), I'm experiencing "flash-backs" to my early youth. I'm visited with "cameo" memories of the War Years. World War II, that is. Those years held our "finest hours", too! There were Spring Days, lying in the grass, gazing up at War Planes flying over-head; Summer Nights, with all of the drama of "BlackOuts". Daddy was an Air-Raid Warden, so we were allowed to stay up later than normal. My childhood ended in 1945, as most of you know; but that is probably why those vivid "Picture Memories" linger. Many of the memories might have been influenced by Hollywood images; but "Hollywood" never made images of Black Neighbors, huddled around radios in the back-yard, "cheering on" Joe Louis (The Brown Bomber fought from 1933-- Golden Gloves, until 1951 -Marciano)! I met the Bomber in the early 70's, in Las Vegas, at Caesar's Palace .
Hollywood never made images of "Silverleen", either. That Black Woman was "Hell on Wheels" as I remember; and, my Mother's good friend. She lived across the street from us, and was a mean Step-Mother to a family containing our distant Cousins. My most vivid memories stem from a time in 1943, when she was fighting for her Divorce, and hid some of her furniture at our house. Many of the Musicians that lived on our side of the Tracks, played at Silverleen's house for Rent Parties.
Those were Years of Crisis, sparked by Pearl Harbor, and, were not unlike our most recent Years of Crisis, sparked by 9/11. One great difference is that we had Mature Political Leadership, at both the Federal and State levels. Roosevelt, followed by Truman, held the Red-Necks and Sewer Rabble at Bay!! FDR had to struggle to win a Declaration of War from Congress!
Red-Necks Re-surged, most recently, in 1994, led by Newt Gingrich; a Sewer State Politician, who thought he could outsmart the Sewer State Politician who defeated Daddy Bush in 1992. Gingrich and his "comrades" set the stage for our current "Terror" in the House (of Representatives), that has been continued by John Boehner, and has spread to the Senate, under McConnell. Using classic Sewer State Political maneuvers, first made available by Nixon, McConnell's extreme efforts to win the Senate and "defeat" Obama, has cursed both the Republican Party and our Nation, with the emergence of TRUMP! Red-Necks are "clumping" with DONALD, like tissues in a Sewer! Smug members of both Parties, who think TRUMP will NEVER win the General Election, may be fooling themselves!! DONALD may win in "unconventional" ways! Think about it: with "proportionally-awarded" Delegate tallies, a candidate could possibly be on the Ballot in 2016 without winning any Primary Election??
Stay Vigilant! Look back to Harry Truman to measure how far we have fallen as a Nation, and as s Society!
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