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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Path: sparky!uunet!hobbes!erics
- From: erics@sco.COM (eric smith)
- Subject: Re: The real Dan Quayle
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:59:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.235914.11878@sco.com>
- References: <D2150056.isnl7t@erics.infoserv.com> <crb2.722100854@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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- crb2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Chad R. Berthelson) writes:
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- >Oh yea, let's do go back to the '60's, they where such wonderful time.
- >Dope was cheap, sex was safe, and vietnam wouldn't bother you if you
- >knew the right loopholes...
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- >let's see what we accomplished in the '60 's government....
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- >"...in the 1960's...Seldom had society been so fraught with conflict;
- >seldom had middle-class Americans found themselves under such
- >unrelenting assault." (from textbook..A survey of American History,
- >vol.II: since 1865 by Current, Williams, Freidel, Brinkley
-
- Gee, is this one of those liberal commie textbooks we keep hearing
- so much about? Well, the conflicts and problems of the '60s were
- largely reactions to the attempt to force conservative "American"
- values on society in the rabidly paranoid McCarthyist Cold War days.
- The fact that these values didn't work for large segments of the
- population, like blacks, women, and young people, led to a certain
- rebellion and friction in society. Even the Vietnam war was caused
- by a myopic American Cold War vision that saw a Communist conspiracy
- everywhere and failed to distinguish between a nationalistic movement
- that could have been co-opted and one that they thought had to be battled
- by supporting a series of corrupt right-wing regimes. It wasn't until
- middle class boys started dying and middle class parents started
- coming out against the war that the government decided that maybe the
- war should be brought to an end (you realize that it lasted 10 years?).
-
- Do you see any parallels here? You complain about the '60s. The best
- way to get them again is for the right wing to get in power and try to
- force their "family values" agenda on a populace that wants no part
- of it.
-
- But one thing the '60s did have more of than we've had for a while:
- hope for the future and a sense that things would get better. That
- was largely inspired by the activist government of the Kennedy and
- Johnson administrations, before Vietnam dragged it down. That's one
- thing I hope the Clinton administration will leave as a legacy for
- the generation that comes to power in 20 to 30 years: the attitude
- that things can be made better, and that problems can be solved by
- working on them, in contrast to the what seems to be the attitude
- of the generation shaped in the Reagan/Bush years, that everything
- is screwed, there's no way to fix things so the best thing to do
- is to grab all the material wealth one can.
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- Eric Smith |
- erics@sco.com | "Golf is key to understanding the Vice President"
- erics@infoserv.com | - close aide to Dan Quayle
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