Agreed! Western culture peaked a while ago and is on the way down. The founding fathers were a very rare group that created a robust system, resistant but not immune to corruption. It took many generations but the takers/cheaters have finally reached every corner of all three branches of government, and all intelligence agencies and all military branches and most large corporations and organizations. Checks and balances worked for quite a while but no system has ever lasted forever. It's just weird to live in one degenerating before your eyes in real time. I just bought a few of your books. I'm looking forward to reading them. Even if you can't stop the avalanche, future thinking historians will appreciate that a few people accurately documented it.
April 15th, 1971; President Richard M. Nixon comes on TV on a Sunday night interrupting the popular western about the Ponderosa Ranch. Nixon announces that he's closing the gold window and the dollar can no longer be exchanged for gold.
That was the day that the blue-collar utopia DJ describes DIED!
After that day in 1971, blue-collar wages have been stagnant and the bankers and rich and powerful have taken all the gains in the economy for themselves.
I hope Nixon and his banker buddies rot in Hell forever!
I can hear Robert Goulet singing "Camelot" as I write this. To summarize what you said and what I now, in my heretofore nice, Ohio Catholic girl world of unicorns, I want to slap myself for being so damned naive and trusting. I am truly mad as hell and I will fight it to the end. I have nothing to lose having grown up with Ozzie and Harriet, Alice Faye and Phil Harris, Frank and Elvis and jukeboxes and burgers in a booth with friends in my memory bank. For the love of God, please someone help us bring it back but I doubt........
Agreed! Western culture peaked a while ago and is on the way down. The founding fathers were a very rare group that created a robust system, resistant but not immune to corruption. It took many generations but the takers/cheaters have finally reached every corner of all three branches of government, and all intelligence agencies and all military branches and most large corporations and organizations. Checks and balances worked for quite a while but no system has ever lasted forever. It's just weird to live in one degenerating before your eyes in real time. I just bought a few of your books. I'm looking forward to reading them. Even if you can't stop the avalanche, future thinking historians will appreciate that a few people accurately documented it.
Dang, Donald! Are you certain you aren’t actually me? (Why don’t I have a Substack? That Donald Jeffries guy and a few others write my stuff.) :-)
April 15th, 1971; President Richard M. Nixon comes on TV on a Sunday night interrupting the popular western about the Ponderosa Ranch. Nixon announces that he's closing the gold window and the dollar can no longer be exchanged for gold.
That was the day that the blue-collar utopia DJ describes DIED!
After that day in 1971, blue-collar wages have been stagnant and the bankers and rich and powerful have taken all the gains in the economy for themselves.
I hope Nixon and his banker buddies rot in Hell forever!
I can hear Robert Goulet singing "Camelot" as I write this. To summarize what you said and what I now, in my heretofore nice, Ohio Catholic girl world of unicorns, I want to slap myself for being so damned naive and trusting. I am truly mad as hell and I will fight it to the end. I have nothing to lose having grown up with Ozzie and Harriet, Alice Faye and Phil Harris, Frank and Elvis and jukeboxes and burgers in a booth with friends in my memory bank. For the love of God, please someone help us bring it back but I doubt........