Did our parents feel this way when they witnessed the hippie/drug culture hitting the streets? Or the biker hoodlums of the 50s and beyond? I remember when my father went on a rant about the long hair the Beatles had when they first became popular. In reality it was nothing compared to what people look like today, tattooed to the gills. Even those that actually change the look of their faces, i.e. the lizard design.
Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be, will be................
The Beatles were a Tavistock Operation, and both sides were being played. The fundamental problem then was the same as today- the requests of Our Lady of Fatima went unheeded, and men tried to work for a natural happiness only, forgetting their ultimate destiny.
Yes, you have mentioned it before. Listening to their earlier music I didn't get the gist that they were into all that gender switcheroo kink going on today. Guess I was a young little idiot, thinking that all these "love" tunes was between men and women. We were raised up in the country, I never witnessed the godliness that we see so much now. Even in our church, the priest molestations were kept pretty hush. Didn't find out about some of those until quite later.
I served Mass for at least four known child molesters, and I suspect at least ten that I cannot nail anything on. the plague is absolutely pandemic. but it is not just the Roman Catholics. It is Methodists, the cops, the public schools, and the military- all chock full of pervs who adhere to the agenda and are regulated by the far-seeing Lavender Mafia. And the Sexified media is how they lure new recruits into their web.
It amazes me the lack of common sense anymore. We’ve seen both parties with total control of presidency and congress and never do what they promised. They are one and the same, just acting out that they are enemies, when in fact, they are all satans minions! As Jesus told us regarding the end times…Do Not Be Deceived! Things are not as they appear…. get ready for wild times to come. Thanks and Shalom DJ
"This is how the dictionary still defines “liberal”: 1. “willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. 2. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.”
When I read this definition of liberal, i got such a kick out of it, I laughed out loud!! You just can't make this sh..t up! Our main stream thought process and learning is just a farce. Thank God we have people like Don to unravel the truth and point out the hypocrisy.
I made the pilgrimage from the left to the Dissident Right even though I am not a right winger. The DR is the only show in town if you don't like war, value the family and view a nation as a people and not just an economic zone.
I never made a stop in conservatism because I was never a fan of Reagan for the reasons you mentioned plus the amnesty.
It took me a while to realize that liberalism, like communism, was simply a tactic to gain power not an ideology. Once the left felt they were close to paradise on earth under Obama and had gained control over all the institutions, they let their inner tyrants come out.
Now the left still thinks they are fighting the man while doing the bidding of the oligarchs and the blob. So, it isn't surprising that the oligarchs and the blob are on the left
The Major Problem with Classical Liberalism is it takes God, and Our Lord Jesus Christ in particular, out of the Human Equation, and attempts to ground truth in Nature and Observable History. The summation of their beliefs is enshrined by Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. What Thomas Jefferson and most Classical Liberals forget is that Man is essentially a Spiritual and Supernatural Creature, with a Supernatural Destiny, and that any attempt to forge a Natural Paradise- everything from the Communist Workers' Paradise to Pius XII's Catholic Order- is doomed from the start.
Once you attempt to separate man's means and ends, the project is ultimately doomed.
My apologies, Mr. Jeffries! I accidentally deleted my comment, that was my mistake. In any case, this piece is spot-on! It was most fascinating to see your journey from a radical leftist in the 1970s to a principled libertarian. The left is nor the Democratic Party are liberal anymore. Indeed all the great men you listed would be cancelled by today’s Democratic Party and declared white supremacists or alt-right.
The days of sane Democrats like FDR, Harry Truman, Henry Wallace, Sam Rayburn, Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Birch Bayh, Frank Church, George McGovern, JFK, RFK, Ted Kennedy, LBJ, Alben Barkley, Frances Perkins, Justice Jackson, and Walter Mondale are long since over. Today, the left is all about identity politics, political correctness, Maoist-like censorship of speech, language policing, and doing whatever the man tells you to do (ironically).
From the 1980s onward, both parties started to become more and more extreme and became pro-business, pro-intelligence community, pro-war, and pro-establishment. The Democrats have moved too far left and are all about cracking down on civil liberties, ignoring science and reality in favor of feelings, don’t run on a real policy platform, don’t have a clear and consistent message, don’t stand for anything, and are a party run by out of touch elites from the coasts who are out of touch with middle America. They no longer care about workers and labor unions.
But the GOP isn’t any better. They are firmly in the pocket of big business and Wall Street and are joined at the hip with the religious right. Today’s conservatives like Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Lee, Nancy Mace, MTG, Lauren Boebert, and Paul Gosar have nothing on real conservatives like William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Charles Curtis, Robert Taft, John Bricker, Zora Neale Hurston, Albert Jay Nock, Russell Kirk, and Edwin Burke.
Returning to the Democratic Party, if they are to start winning again and becoming a respectable political party than they need to go back to being a center-left big tent party that actually fights for workers. Remember the Free Speech Movement at U.C. Berkeley in the 1960s? Today’s college kids are exactly the opposite. They are such cry babies who want trigger warnings for everything and run to their safe spaces when someone says something slightly out of line with woke orthodoxy. Virtue signaling has replaced actually doing substantive things to help the poor and minorities. Heterodox thinkers don’t last long in today’s academia. We need a second American Revolution!
Noah Otte left a nice comment, which I saw in email, but for some reason isn't posted here. Just wanted to say thanks!
Did our parents feel this way when they witnessed the hippie/drug culture hitting the streets? Or the biker hoodlums of the 50s and beyond? I remember when my father went on a rant about the long hair the Beatles had when they first became popular. In reality it was nothing compared to what people look like today, tattooed to the gills. Even those that actually change the look of their faces, i.e. the lizard design.
Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be, will be................
Yes, our parents did, Fran. But the changes we are seeing today are like nothing in the history of this country. Thanks.
The Beatles were a Tavistock Operation, and both sides were being played. The fundamental problem then was the same as today- the requests of Our Lady of Fatima went unheeded, and men tried to work for a natural happiness only, forgetting their ultimate destiny.
Yes, you have mentioned it before. Listening to their earlier music I didn't get the gist that they were into all that gender switcheroo kink going on today. Guess I was a young little idiot, thinking that all these "love" tunes was between men and women. We were raised up in the country, I never witnessed the godliness that we see so much now. Even in our church, the priest molestations were kept pretty hush. Didn't find out about some of those until quite later.
I served Mass for at least four known child molesters, and I suspect at least ten that I cannot nail anything on. the plague is absolutely pandemic. but it is not just the Roman Catholics. It is Methodists, the cops, the public schools, and the military- all chock full of pervs who adhere to the agenda and are regulated by the far-seeing Lavender Mafia. And the Sexified media is how they lure new recruits into their web.
It amazes me the lack of common sense anymore. We’ve seen both parties with total control of presidency and congress and never do what they promised. They are one and the same, just acting out that they are enemies, when in fact, they are all satans minions! As Jesus told us regarding the end times…Do Not Be Deceived! Things are not as they appear…. get ready for wild times to come. Thanks and Shalom DJ
That seems to be the reality, Brad- neither party delivers on its promises. Thanks!
The shebang is nothing but a clown show. Biden Clown out, Trump Clown in...
This really dates me but I remember Joe Pyne's show in the late sixties.
It's amazing to see how provocatively he spoke to guests and how they gave it right back to him.
We weren't cowed like we are now.
I remember that show as a little kid. My dad loved it. "Take a walk!" Thanks, John.
"This is how the dictionary still defines “liberal”: 1. “willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. 2. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.”
When I read this definition of liberal, i got such a kick out of it, I laughed out loud!! You just can't make this sh..t up! Our main stream thought process and learning is just a farce. Thank God we have people like Don to unravel the truth and point out the hypocrisy.
Thanks, Robin!
I made the pilgrimage from the left to the Dissident Right even though I am not a right winger. The DR is the only show in town if you don't like war, value the family and view a nation as a people and not just an economic zone.
I never made a stop in conservatism because I was never a fan of Reagan for the reasons you mentioned plus the amnesty.
It took me a while to realize that liberalism, like communism, was simply a tactic to gain power not an ideology. Once the left felt they were close to paradise on earth under Obama and had gained control over all the institutions, they let their inner tyrants come out.
Now the left still thinks they are fighting the man while doing the bidding of the oligarchs and the blob. So, it isn't surprising that the oligarchs and the blob are on the left
We sound like kindred spirits, Al. Thanks!
The Major Problem with Classical Liberalism is it takes God, and Our Lord Jesus Christ in particular, out of the Human Equation, and attempts to ground truth in Nature and Observable History. The summation of their beliefs is enshrined by Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. What Thomas Jefferson and most Classical Liberals forget is that Man is essentially a Spiritual and Supernatural Creature, with a Supernatural Destiny, and that any attempt to forge a Natural Paradise- everything from the Communist Workers' Paradise to Pius XII's Catholic Order- is doomed from the start.
Once you attempt to separate man's means and ends, the project is ultimately doomed.
My apologies, Mr. Jeffries! I accidentally deleted my comment, that was my mistake. In any case, this piece is spot-on! It was most fascinating to see your journey from a radical leftist in the 1970s to a principled libertarian. The left is nor the Democratic Party are liberal anymore. Indeed all the great men you listed would be cancelled by today’s Democratic Party and declared white supremacists or alt-right.
The days of sane Democrats like FDR, Harry Truman, Henry Wallace, Sam Rayburn, Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Birch Bayh, Frank Church, George McGovern, JFK, RFK, Ted Kennedy, LBJ, Alben Barkley, Frances Perkins, Justice Jackson, and Walter Mondale are long since over. Today, the left is all about identity politics, political correctness, Maoist-like censorship of speech, language policing, and doing whatever the man tells you to do (ironically).
From the 1980s onward, both parties started to become more and more extreme and became pro-business, pro-intelligence community, pro-war, and pro-establishment. The Democrats have moved too far left and are all about cracking down on civil liberties, ignoring science and reality in favor of feelings, don’t run on a real policy platform, don’t have a clear and consistent message, don’t stand for anything, and are a party run by out of touch elites from the coasts who are out of touch with middle America. They no longer care about workers and labor unions.
But the GOP isn’t any better. They are firmly in the pocket of big business and Wall Street and are joined at the hip with the religious right. Today’s conservatives like Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Lee, Nancy Mace, MTG, Lauren Boebert, and Paul Gosar have nothing on real conservatives like William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Charles Curtis, Robert Taft, John Bricker, Zora Neale Hurston, Albert Jay Nock, Russell Kirk, and Edwin Burke.
Returning to the Democratic Party, if they are to start winning again and becoming a respectable political party than they need to go back to being a center-left big tent party that actually fights for workers. Remember the Free Speech Movement at U.C. Berkeley in the 1960s? Today’s college kids are exactly the opposite. They are such cry babies who want trigger warnings for everything and run to their safe spaces when someone says something slightly out of line with woke orthodoxy. Virtue signaling has replaced actually doing substantive things to help the poor and minorities. Heterodox thinkers don’t last long in today’s academia. We need a second American Revolution!
No problem, Noah. I just didn't want you to think I deleted it. Thanks for the kind words!