Even as a 13-year-old, I was caught up in the fervor of 1964. Life magazine and the CBS Evening News were my conduits to the outside world. After the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK assassination in 1962 and 1963, I began feeling connected to life beyond the lakes and orange groves and ocean beaches of Central Florida.
Even as a 13-year-old, I was caught up in the fervor of 1964. Life magazine and the CBS Evening News were my conduits to the outside world. After the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK assassination in 1962 and 1963, I began feeling connected to life beyond the lakes and orange groves and ocean beaches of Central Florida.
I remember going to see LBJ speak at a campaign stop in the parking lot of a shopping center in Orlando. And his landslide victory and a huge Democratic majority in Congress produced a stunning number of victories for civil rights and so much more. Back then, many Republicans voted with Democrats to offset the votes of Southern Democrats.
After my high school integrated without the rancor so common elsewhere in the South, it left with me the impression that America would always be moving forward, striving to make the country and people's lives better.
And now I'm an old dude perplexed by our rapid demise despite so much promise, so much ability to do good. How is it possible that Goldwater's radical words in 1964 — “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue” — came roaring to life 57 years later on Jan. 6? And all based on the biggest lie in U.S. political history, a lie that keeps metastasizing.
It's beginning to look, as the professor wrote so profoundly, that the South has indeed won the Civil War.
"How is it possible that Goldwater's radical words in 1964 — “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue” — came roaring to life 57 years later on Jan. 6?"
1. Fox News. (Cable)
2. Rush Limbaugh (AM Radio)
3. Survivor.
4. The Apprentice.
5. The Kardashians.
Or, is it just: The problem with America is Americans?
The South has been winning the war since 1865 when the traitorous military and political leaders were not tried and punished. Lincoln hoped to bring about real peace, but the same evil that started the Civil War murdered him. The evil of former times now is entrenched on the SC. The court MUST be reformed.
Even as a 13-year-old, I was caught up in the fervor of 1964. Life magazine and the CBS Evening News were my conduits to the outside world. After the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK assassination in 1962 and 1963, I began feeling connected to life beyond the lakes and orange groves and ocean beaches of Central Florida.
I remember going to see LBJ speak at a campaign stop in the parking lot of a shopping center in Orlando. And his landslide victory and a huge Democratic majority in Congress produced a stunning number of victories for civil rights and so much more. Back then, many Republicans voted with Democrats to offset the votes of Southern Democrats.
After my high school integrated without the rancor so common elsewhere in the South, it left with me the impression that America would always be moving forward, striving to make the country and people's lives better.
And now I'm an old dude perplexed by our rapid demise despite so much promise, so much ability to do good. How is it possible that Goldwater's radical words in 1964 — “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue” — came roaring to life 57 years later on Jan. 6? And all based on the biggest lie in U.S. political history, a lie that keeps metastasizing.
It's beginning to look, as the professor wrote so profoundly, that the South has indeed won the Civil War.
"How is it possible that Goldwater's radical words in 1964 — “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue” — came roaring to life 57 years later on Jan. 6?"
1. Fox News. (Cable)
2. Rush Limbaugh (AM Radio)
3. Survivor.
4. The Apprentice.
5. The Kardashians.
Or, is it just: The problem with America is Americans?
Exactly, sadly. ALL the above, don’t forget Mitch…
Dark money, too.
The South has been winning the war since 1865 when the traitorous military and political leaders were not tried and punished. Lincoln hoped to bring about real peace, but the same evil that started the Civil War murdered him. The evil of former times now is entrenched on the SC. The court MUST be reformed.
Things were going better until Jim Crow laws, legalizing segregation, were passed in the 1880s. Ken Burns 'Reconstruction' will bring many to tears.