In 1972 Nixon won the election in a landslide despite the hatred of the media and academics and general “liberals’ who preferred the Socialist leanings of George McGovern.
The famous witty film critic Pauline Kael famously commented:
‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.’”
I know what she meant….I can feel the silent Trump supporters….rsk
Like many of America’s “seniores” and senioras” I take medications. Dr. Fauci is debatedly billed as our top public health czar.
Why does he not warn us about the locus of many of our therapeutics and supplements – prescribed and otherwise?
How many are still manufactured in China and other ares of limited quality control?
Our lives depend on it…..rsk
In 1964 then Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan , launched a major study :The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, Begun in 1964 under President Kennedy it was completed the subsequent year under President Johnson and presented by the Office of Policy Planning and Research United States Department of Labor as a recommendation to implement The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Chapters were:
The Negro American Revolution
The Negro American Family
The Roots of the Problem
The Tangle of Pathology
The Case for National Action
On the “Revolution” Moynihan wrote:
The Negro American revolution is rightly regarded as the most important domestic event of the postwar period in the United States. Nothing like it has occurred since the upheavals of the 1930’s which led to the organization of the great industrial trade unions, and which in turn profoundly altered both the economy and the political scene.
The Negro American revolution holds forth the prospect that the American Republic, which at birth was flawed by the institution of Negro slavery, and which throughout its history has been marred by the unequal treatment of Negro citizens, will at last redeem the full promise of the Declaration of Independence.
“…. the Negro leadership has conducted itself with the strictest propriety, acting always and only as American citizens asserting their rights within the framework of the American political system.”
Moynihan underestimated the breakout of violent and seditious groups like Black Muslims, The Student non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)- founded as a pacifist organization, it became radical and Maoist and the Black Panthers a socialist political organization founded by Marxist college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton who publicly proclaimed themselves as Maoists and anti-capitalism, anti-racism and anti-Zionism.
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow.
To guarantee equality of results was both Utopian and detrimental.
The rest of the report focuses on the need to shore up the crumbling Negro family.
The emphasis on the family led to false accusations that Moynihan “blamed the victim” with the result that the problems the report addressed never received the serious attention they deserved.
Nonetheless the report along with The Civil Rights Act led to major reparation policies, the best known being affirmative action.
In many respects, the outcome was impressive. There are now many more black college graduates, many more blacks in high level jobs in the media, in the academies, in the professions, in business and in the corridors of power. It would be patronizing to list the number of highly qualified and well-placed Black Americans.
In the greatest act of moral reparation of all, Americans elected a Black president for two terms- something no Jew, or Hispanic-or Asian American has achieved.
Which brings us to Black Lives Matter and the present so called “revolution.”
The George Floyd killing should have elicited fair, and honest, and data-based debate on police tactics. Instead Black Lives Matter has become an occasionally violent movement, taken over by screeching “progressives” (many of them white) who tear down statues, burn our flag, bash and libel our democracy, yell anti-Semitic tropes and achieve nothing-nada- zilch. Instead of leaders of the caliber of Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin and James Farmer we have scammers like Al Sharpton.
Can one honestly name one unjustly treated or drug and crime affected family whose lives have been ameliorated by Black Lives Matter?
The honest answer is no and the fault lies with the void in genuine leadership and the groveling (literally) acquiescence of both politicians and the general public.
The worst example of pandering is the Democrat’s $350 billion reparations measure to address a mythical “systemic racism” at a time when Americans of all races are severely impacted by a pandemic.
In one fell scoop, Bari Weiss did more to expose the systemic bias of the New York Times than all the pundits, commentators, critics, authors and poo bahs ( def.a person having much influence or holding many offices at the same time, especially one perceived as pompously self-important) of ostensibly Jewish support organizations….rsk
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/cancel_culture_coming_for_broadways_most_famous_hits.html
Broadway has been depressingly dark for months, so Disney produced Hamilton on TV for a large and grateful audience. However, the PC monitors, who never rest, criticized the play for portraying principals who were slave owners.
When the lights go on again, will they come for the theater?
Could Driving Miss Daisy ever be performed again? It is a heartwarming tale by Alfred Uhry about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her black chauffeur, Hoke Coleborn. It enjoyed wide praise in various iterations on stage and in a movie, but today it would raise the hackles of political correctness officers.
South Pacific? No way! “There is nothing like a dame” is male chauvinism writ large. Could it be saved if the original song is performed by a chorus of female soldiers? Or if the lyrics were changed to “there is nothing but a they.”
“Climb every mountain, Ford every stream.” That’s not The Sound of Music for the disabled. Really what were they thinking?
Goodbye to Jerome Kern and Showboat: “Tell me he’s lazy, tell me he’s slow, tell me I’m crazy, (maybe I know). Can’t help lovin’ dat man of mine.”
That is a subliminal racist stereotype. These lyrics are insensitive… although Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald and Shirley Bassey and Barbra Streisand recorded great renditions without getting the vapors.
Guys and Dolls, a masterpiece by Frank Loesser based on Damon Runyon stories, is sexist right in the title. Are you kidding? Binaries and trans maybe but rhyming is hard. And it’s about the Salvation Army and gamblers… not hip.
Three nations gave official recognition to the Democratic autonomous nation of Chaz, in respectful recognition of their “honorable fight against the systemic racism and human rights violations of capitalism.”
Although they will appoint ambassadors, finding anyone willing to go there is an ongoing problem…rsk
When you call a hospital or physician, the first message is: “If this is an emergency, hang up and call 911.”
Well if Mayor de Blazphemy has his way this is what will happen if you encounter an emergency and dial 911:
Answer: “You have reached this office of social justice in law and order. Press 1 for Spanish, for English stay on the line To report a hate crime press star 3. To report abuse press star 4 For emergencies press star 5.….Next canned music for 15 minutes interspersed with ” Your call is important to us, please hold.”
Finally an answer: “Please state the nature of the emergency” you respond “I need an ambulance” and the voice states: “Press 1 for Spanish and for English stay on the line…..”…..rsk
Two good columns today on the herd of generals against the President. They merit a quote from Thomas Paine ( b. January 29, 1737, England- died June 8, 1809 in Greenwich Village, N.Y.)
“These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
Thomas Paine meant –those who favor a convenient war that is fought quickly and with little or no personal discomfort–would have neither the heart nor fortitude to undergo and withstand what Paine envisioned was about to come.
The average age of the assembled troops was 26 with many younger than twenty. They were there to protest tyranny.
As poet Hannah Senesh said “Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake” rsk
Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force:
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944. Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations1 have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned. The free men of the world are marching together to victory.
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Herbert Hoover was a successful mining engineer for a private corporation in China, when he and his wife were trapped by the Boxer rebellion. Under heavy fire they erected barricades, worked in hospitals and rescued Chinese children. This valor and talent for organization came to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson who appointed him to head the Food Administration during World War 1 to help secure food and sustenance for the beleaguered Europeans, a task he continued after the war as head of the American Relief Administration.
The foregoing brought Herbert Hoover to the public and political arena, hailed as “The Great Humanitarian.”
After serving as Secretary of Commerce under President Calvin Coolidge Hoover became the successful Republican candidate for the presidency in 1928. Within months into his term the nation spiraled into an economic depression for which he bore absolutely no blame.
His attempts to create a Reconstruction Finance Operation to aid business, agriculture, mortgage relief and loans to states to help the unemployed were continually foiled by a hostile Congress.
As a principled Conservative, he reiterated his view that local and state administrations must be the primary sources of decision and support for their citizens.
The media and Congressional antagonists and opportunists blamed him for the depression and called him cruel, indifferent, and incompetent. He lost to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
After his loss he was a powerful critic of the “New Deal” and of President Roosevelt’s callous indifference to the plight of European Jews. He continued to write columns and books until his death in 1964.
President Trump now faces a calamity for which he bears no blame. He may not have the probity, immaculate personal life or elegance of Herbert Hoover. But, unlike Hoover, Trump is a scrapper and fighter and has grabbed the pandemic and economic chaos by the …er….roots. He has also fought the turpitude of his political antagonists and the libels of fake news.
And, Joe Biden is no Franklin Delano Roosevelt……rsk
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