From A Message Board, Author Unknown:
By the 1960's, this nation had achieved unprecedented levels of freedom, prosperity, and the security of civilized living. It was not, however, perfect. There was segregation and businesses turned away people because of their race. However, people were safe in their homes, safe in the streets, and children went to schools as safe as their homes. Americans were united in being American. Pride in, and loyalty to the country were as natural for most as leaving the door of their homes unlocked.
And then it blew up in our faces. Why pretend that Viet Nam tore the country apart? It merely provided an opportunity, just as did the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Lib, or concern about pollution, to transform America from an obstacle to leader in the construction of a socialist world.
Crude socialists like Lenin, Hitler and Stalin, put their faith in raw power. The German, French and Italian varieties of socialists knew better. Some, their lives saved by finding refuge in America, returned the favor by developing a socialist virus that could be spread through a suitable host.
That host turned out to be the generation that came of age in the late 1960's. The virus was hatred, an inexhaustible supply of it, in an infinite variety of guises: rejection; contempt; deconstruction; and diversity through hyphenation just to name a few.
America's past was rejected. The founders were deemed to be contemptible. Our moral code and language were deconstructed. Hyphenation saw to it that no one was simply an American.
Groups and group identities began to sprout. With the invention and confirmation of every special right came a special bonus, to hate as a matter of right.
Women were persuaded to forget that they had built America as equal partners, so they could declare open season on men. Blacks were persuaded to remain fixated on past grievances instead of current opportunity. An entire fictitious category of "Hispanic" was created to declare open season on the English language and northern European heritage.
Open season was declared on anyone who did not succumb to the hysterical demand of the day, be it environmental, permissive, or just plain loud.
Resentment was institutionalized by universities teaching little more than justification of grievances. This was enshrined in the National Standards for United States History. Now, it has been written into law in the form of "hate crimes," separating those who may be legally hated from those who may not even be criticized. Demagoguery and expressions of contempt for the people emanate daily from those elected in 1992 and from their appointees. Hours after bemoaning the Colorado school massacre, then Vice President Al Gore went to Detroit and openly fomented racial hatred at an NAACP meeting.
Leaders of a violent gang who had just burned down a city are treated with respect on ABC-TV's "Nightline." The Kanab ambersnail is favored over human beings. People who believe in the Ten Commandments are ridiculed, but ten communists who were blacklisted 50 years ago are honored as martyrs on one television network or another almost monthly.
In our dislocated society, women kick men in the groin while other women cheer. The Clinton presidential team clearly without the slightest notion of what the military is for, orders the bombing and murder of foreign civilians. Criminals are excused while honest citizens are subject to searches.
Our public schools are ruled by the National Education Association, a misnomer if ever there was one. In them, young people are incited to "save the Earth" rather than to pick up their trash. They are pumped to express themselves before they can read or write. Above all, they are conditioned to hate the country in which they live and to regard one another with suspicion and contempt.
The two who killed their fellow students in Littleton, Colorado are products of an era in which American institutions have been turned on their head, the glue that has held society together has been dissolved, and Americans have been taught to be afraid of one another.
It has given us a society in which a man who has admitted to being a serial sexual predator; who has lied to the American people on occasions too numerous to count; has lied under oath to a duly appointed officer of the court and to a federal judge; has dishonored his wife and child; and, has threatened people who would testify against him, was elected to the highest office in the land. His actions are viewed by the ideological left as no big deal because "everyone does it." Worse yet, his actions are applauded and he is honored by his acolytes and sycophants as the "greatest President ever." This is truly sickening.
How can leftists live with themselves, much less sleep at night?
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