Today's Americans and
Yesteryear's Americans
Townhall,
by
Walter E. Williams
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/29/2020 1:46:21 AM
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written two articles relevant to today's society. Last October he published, "Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants," and he recently wrote, "Is America a Roaring Giant or Crying Baby?" In the first article, Hanson starts with some observations and questions regarding the greatness of previous generations compared with today's Americans. He asks:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 4/29/2020 1:58:51 AM (No. 394958)
Yes, read all those books in HS, too. And yes, most kids who graduated in the last 10 years never even heard of them. But they sure know about white privilege, that the government is your savior and and a lot of other fake, harmful, useless nonsense.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BillW. 4/29/2020 3:02:25 AM (No. 394967)
Hey DVC, outstanding posts and comments this morning. I agree with your remarks about VDH, America's schools these days, and the points Mr. Williams makes in this article. --Vets for Trump 2020
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 4/29/2020 3:39:12 AM (No. 394970)
Mr. Williams says Americans will come roaring back..."if left to their own devices." The Left will not leave us to own devices. We must exert our rights or lose them. Ignoring the edits of the wanna-be dictators is primary. I stopped in at Costco for gas today ($2.45 in CA!) and the parking lot was as full as pre-virus. As more people go out, more businesses will quietly open. The scolds will be ignored. One day the dictator governors will make a big announcement that their state is open and every one will be too busy to notice. The "progressive" commies are over reaching and are going to end up pulling back a bloody stump.
MAGA:KAG - The Best Is Yet To Come.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/29/2020 4:16:46 AM (No. 394997)
This country has been experiencing a slow road to death since the 1950s. You can thank demonrats for that and our failed education system whose sole purpose is to indoctrinate children. They can't even compute how many dimes there are in a dollar anymore.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 4/29/2020 4:30:35 AM (No. 395000)
The biggest difference between then and now is that then, the enemy was over there. Now, they are a large portion of the government and nearly half the electorate is supporting them. They were right in the 1940's and 50's after all. We have been infiltrated by communists.
When I think about how Joseph McCarthy and the HUAC were vilified when I was in high school it makes me shake my head. Turns out McCarthy was right all along. Look at us now.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 4/29/2020 6:09:33 AM (No. 395029)
Amen to all posts. Today we celebrate perversion and reward slothfulness. There is a limit to how long that can continue.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
privateer 4/29/2020 9:56:40 AM (No. 395258)
FTA: In other words, Hanson says, "The choice is ours whether America awakens as a roaring giant or a crying baby." I think: the leftist/commie/progs (Dems) are a roaring baby...that have turned the USA into a crying giant.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/29/2020 10:46:11 AM (No. 395341)
In this case government is being cast as our savior. If not for all the restrictions, from "social distancing" to enforced business closures, even checkpoints at state lines and local testing stations, this would have been such a calamity that America, the world, would never recover. But, thanks to all those citizen HEROES we are pulling through. It has been hard...so here's some government money, some for nearly all (but the rich), and more for those thrown out of work, living paycheck-to-paycheck and surviving on the benevolence of the US Government and state unemployment offices, all paid for with imaginary money from the national treasury.
And, of course, we will take the lessons learned so that this never happens again...more government planning, stockpiling, infrastructure, and more laws to protect us all in event of another emergency. Katrina was a boon to "emergency planning" staffs throughout government. Wait until one sees the effect of all this on public health, medical infrastructure and research. Better models and better medicines...gotta have them.
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