The 1950s: “I Like Ike”
American life in the 1950s had a number of terrible features, in particular de jure racial segregation and the assumption that war was required to stop the spread of communism. Like all progressives, I don’t want to go back there either.
Yet I want to point out that, in the middle 20th Century, this country:
Wasn’t dominated by the corruptive influence of Big Money in its largest industries–oil, pharmaceuticals, weapons, etc.
Wasn’t led by a criminal sociopath.
For those of you too young to remember, “I Like Ike” was the campaign slogan of Dwight D. (“Ike”) Eisenhower, who was a Republican, but one from an era long before this hateful insanity.
National Priority #1: Get rid of Trump.
At left are the words of retired Army officer Fred Wellman, a graduate of West Point and the Harvard Kennedy School, who served 22 years in the Army, primarily in combat as an aviator.
Here is Patty Murray, serving her sixth term as a United States senator from Washington state, expressing a concern.
This beautifully written piece at left reminds us that most Americans are not capable of discarding the bullshit to which we are exposed on a daily basis, and, in particular, how little threat the transsexual population represents to us.
“Pessimism” is the wrong word here, insofar as it concerns the future. It’s a tendency to believe that the worst will happen; it’s a lack of hope or confidence in the future. While Americans may be pessimistic, what the meme here is about is the present, not the future.
Trump says, “You know, the cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office. They are pretty much normally price now.”
Insofar as the world is not currently beset with an epidemic like COVID-19, the subject of people’s “rights” to flout health regulations is not a present-day issue in our daily news cycles. That’s a good thing, but it would be foolish to think it’s going to last forever.
It’s not just the poor, sick, and elderly who suffer, and whose lives will continue to get worse, to that group, we need to add those who count on:
Regrettably, what U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says here is completely true. The genie is out of the bottle.
