Beginning of the Shift…Let’s Hope
This is a quick one here, gang…
Although there have been many false final chapters for both Liberalism and Conservatism over the years, there HAVE been cultural changes leaning left or right in America. I swear I’m not trying to sound like a political scientist or sociologist, but I do acknowledge I’m moving into a realm above my current pay grade. Considering I’m contemplating foreclosing on my house, you can imagine my current pay grade. Now, moving on…
The last big full shift that I can think of was the move to the left in the early 70s. Vietnam was an undeniable mess which set the stage for the greatest “I Told You So” of all time. Nixon and his crew were just so so so Republican. The media were frustrated socialists who had been keeping a loose lid on their ideology and hatred of America. Along came two such liberals Woodward and Bernstein who took down the establishment. Then the media and show business joined left wing politicians in the dance they had been longing for forever. It was the opposite of McCarthyism which ushered in this current sad state of affairs. This was the genesis for the follies of political correctness, children having children, class warfare, the DUMBING down of our society, the rewarding of bad behavior etc. And that’s just MTV.
Well, friends, after arrogantly sauntering into the White House and smugly telling us what time it really is, this tragedy of an administration has officially gone too far. They have over reached down our throats with handfulls of government and regulation and wealth re-distribution.
In this new era of an INFORMED electorate, this gang has been caught at every turn. Once we saw they were serious about being everything we feared they would be; after they brought in communists and truthers, bought GM, bought banks and started dictating salaries we were on guard. Within the first three months we saw the Tea Parties. By Summer representatives were being lambasted in town hall meetings from coast to coast. Coming in November is the great tilling of the soil so badly needed for decades.
After WWII, there was a nice conservative feeling in this country for about 30 years until about ’74. The ugliness of this liberal stranglehold has had it’s 36 years. Things have reached a critical mass. America sees the changing of the very fabric of our culture, and we don’t like it.
Well, no more. It’s over. Now.
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“The media were frustrated socialists who had been keeping a loose lid on their ideology and hatred of America. Along came two such liberals, Woodward and Bernstein, who took down the establishment.”
Teej, are you actually blaming Watergate on Woodward & Bernstein here? I was these two reporters that let this country down and not Nixon?
Please tell me you’re joking.
This statement implies that if those liberal commie reporters really loved America, they would have kept a lid on it and let Nixon break whatever laws he wanted?
Dude, are you FEELING okay?
No no no…. C’mon, I’m NOT blaming Watergate on Woodstein! I said it was the biggest “I told You So”. They were right! Nixon was a crook, and a creepy paranoid one at that. I’m not implying they should not have taken them down. The taking down of that admin was the right thing…it just so HAPPENED to have been a couple of liberals, and it ushered in this last 36 years of political correctness, affirmative action (form which we’ve all suffered in Hollywood) and all the rest.
And yes, I feel pretty good, thanks!
Good to hear from you, man.
T
Alright. Good to know.
Eff Sean Penn.
Actually, in a way, the whole liberal shift in the mainstream media WAS the fault of Woodward & Bernstein.
Yes, they did the right thing, but they did it in such a way that every snot-nosed kid coming out of journalism school wanted to be the next Woodward & Bernstein so they could become famous, too.
The result is a mainstream media more interested in finding the big scandal and taking down anyone they don’t like than they are in actually telling us “Who, what, where, when and how.”
Certainly, investigative journalism has its place. Such has made the careers of people like Geraldo Rivera and John Stossel, but it shouldn’t be the be-all and end-all of the entire field, and, in my opinion, that’s a battle in this new cultural revolution that needs to be at least fought, if not won.
And my thanks goes to Rupert Murdoch and all those at FOX for leading the charge.