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mystery-ak:
May 16, 2021
History Suggests that America is Ripe for a Conservative Resurgence
By William Sullivan

Aging hippies have a penchant for recalling the 1960s as some amazing, idyllic moment in time. As Jonah Goldberg writes in Liberal Fascism, it’s “bizarre how many people remember the 1960s as a time of ‘unity’ and ‘hope’ when it was, in reality, a time of rampant domestic terrorism, campus tumult, assassinations, and riots.”

Goldberg hits the nail squarely on the head when appraising why aging hippies feel that way. Their “liberal nostalgia” for the 1960s is more about a longing “for victory” than an interest in “unity.” Leftists love the 1960s for the same reason that they love the 1930s, a decade also marred by “political unrest, intense labor violence, and the fear that one totalitarianism or another lay just around the corner.”

Both decades were the times when leftists believed that “we were all in it together,” writes Goldberg. The kind of “unity” that took the shape of “staid conformity” in the 1950s was undesirable for them. “In the 1930s and 1960s, the left’s popular-front approach yielded real power.”

Voters, however, swiftly repudiated that era of massively growing government power and carefully fomented social unrest under LBJ’s Great Society schemes. In 1968, America elected Richard Nixon on his promise to find “an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.” He promised to repeal government regulations, reminding Americans that “progress is achieved not by government doing more for people, but through people doing more for themselves.” He assured Americans that he would “restore respect for America around the world.”

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Sled Dog:
History suggests that America can't recover.

Thanks, Never Trumpers.

jafo2010:
So much nonsense here.  The 1930s were a horrible period, and if one word defines it, it would be HARDSHIP.  People had little to nothing.  The notion of dunking the chicken in the pot to give the soup a touch of chicken flavor was absolutely true.  People lived on borderline starvation.  Neighbors helped each other to survive.  My mother often spoke of neighbor kids coming and eating at my grandmother's table because she could assemble a meal out of next to nothing and it was tasty.  She was a marvelous cook.

It was WWII that helped the American people and the world for that matter to emerge from poverty, starvation and doing without.  WHen things were rationed during WWII, they still lived better than they did during the 30s because men were at war and the women were working in the manufacturing plants to produce all the goods necessary to wage war.

The 1960s, the one word that comes to mind is TUMULT.  We were engaged in a war that had no objective, no mission with the intention to a given goal. and men died for absolutely nothing.  We had no intent to destroy the enemy as existed in WWII.  It was lunacy, and America came to realize that quickly.  LBJ was utterly clueless on what to do.  JFK was assassinated because he signed an executive order to pull out of Vietnam.  LBJ amped up our efforts there, making the military/industrial complex very happy.  But every day, it was money and blood being squandered, and for nothing. 

People were totally disenchanted in the USA.  That is in part why illicit drugs surged, to enable people to depart from an irrational world with little to no hope.  Perhaps a second word for the 60s is DESPEAR.

Sled Dog:
Why were Americans on borderline starvation during the Federal Reserve's Great Depression?

FDR was deliberately having farm produce destroyed to maintain artificially high produce prices while citizens were starving in the cities.

Great plan.

We'll be seeing more of that soon.    Farmers were never adverse to taking a communist dollar in the US.

The economy would have recovered, shortly, after the stock market crash, except for the government's perpetual and incompetent interference.   Thanks to FDR, the Big Recession turned into a Great Depression and his policies made it last a full decade.    Oh, and don't forget Hoover's clumsiness.  He was one of the very early RINO boobs.

So, the real words that could describe the US of the 1930's would be:

Incompetence, Ignorance, and Unconstitutionality.

Fishrrman:
Parts of America may be "ripe for a conservative resurgence", but other parts have slipped into an almost irretrievable state of leftism/communism, and I see no way short of war to "get them back" into the fold.

There are no desirable options going forward.

Time for the "concerned states" to convene a New Continental Congress to decide where to go from here...

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