Comments on: Gutless Cowards

By: annamissed

annamissed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:31:03 +0000

Another point to be added to bonkers#41 is that the foundation that the so called greatest generation was built upon were the now despised “socialism light” programs of FDR. These programs not only saved the country from economic peril, but were an important ingredient in unifying the country into a common purpose. All the republicans that wax poetically about that era, conveniently forget that the social identity of that generation was forged with a leftist hammer.
As usual, they love to take credit for something they fought tooth and nail against, after it has become successful.

By: shell

shell — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:50:40 +0000

I agree!

By: jhwoodyatt

jhwoodyatt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:27:33 +0000

“You wonder whether the next act in all this will be a massive march on DC to try to intimidate the Congress.”

September 12 would be the obvious date for one.

By: Sambot

Sambot — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:19:28 +0000

Let’s all go the the Tea Party on the 12th.

By: SKIMPYPENGUIN

SKIMPYPENGUIN — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:58:20 +0000

You mean this march on Washington? http://912dc.org/

By: HIVANH

HIVANH — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:37:36 +0000

When the commenters posting here get so far afield of the subject matter in the article, and then expand and embelish on the sidetracks, they sound as looney as the cranks who are decried in the article. Why is it so hard to stay attuned to the current issue(s)?

By: patg

patg — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:56:25 +0000

just want to say i’ll be 61 this year and appreciate all of my fellow oldsters comments…and yeah the GG sort of did luck out with WW2 (but that sounds weird)and don’t forget their perpetuation of jim crow….

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:38:37 +0000

Well said. Mornin’, DW.

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:23:52 +0000

Isn’t that the truth? They benefited from the huge increase in the values of their homes, the capping of their taxes and all the other perks that they awarded themselves. But as you point out, they begrudge anyone else anything. They certainly are the stingiest generation.

I’ll never forget when I met a guy who was a CO during Korea, until then I had never actually realized there were people like that in other wars. From the way they came down on our generation, I thought we must have been the first with any anti-war conscience.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:03:36 +0000

The GG wasn’t.

They were materialistic and primarily concerned with their own comfort.

They have been lionized for profit and the elevation of certain pundits.

They slept through critical changes.

Yet, what are we, as a generational group, we cohorts, what are we doing, now, that is different from what that particular “they” did?

We have long been accused of being self-centered.

Some of us have made a journey of discovery, but the vast majority of those of a certain age, have perpetrated the racism, know-nothing-ism and materialism which in our salad days we, some of us, protested and stood against.

And then. Our “portfolios” became us and we joined in the great snooze.

How many of us were “weekend” warriors who morphed into the very people we had once challenged?

As shell asks, how many of us could forgo the comforts to which we have been accustomed and to which we feel entitled?

How many of us shirk from confronting the ignorance we decry, preferring the safety of sitting behind our computers?

I say this once again (and many more times, I am certain) “it” is not about “them”, whoever “they” are, it is about us and what we dare and choose to DO.