Newest "racially insensitive" word.

[lyman]

So CH, the country started going downhill when blacks stood up (non-violently, overwhelmingly) for their rights?

Here is a great web site for people interested in how it worked in the old days, when CH's uncivil civilization was at its zenith. There are some great examples. Readers are equipped to judge for themselves if things were really better.

https://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm

Now Vietnam. You know how you think (correctly, IMO) that the Iraq war was a bad move? Well was Vietnam any better? True the hippies protested because they personally didn't want to stop grooving out on life, which is a defining move for that most insufferable of generations, the baby-boomers. But not everyone who opposed the war was a boomer hippy. We know now that the war was a bad idea, and what's more, that the country's leadership knew it too but couldn't admit it to the public.

Gonna go out on a limb and say that you liked that time better because you were a young man. Makes perfect sense to me.

I would hazard a guess that he meant Welfare programs,

or at least I hope,,

[Vern Humphrey]

I would hazard a guess that he meant Welfare programs,

or at least I hope,,

That's exactly what he meant -- the Great Society was sold as being "for the children." There are more children living before the poverty level than there were then. If you think the Viet Nam War was a mistake, the War on poverty was worse -- and it's still dragging on and on and on.

[togor]

That's easy: the downhill slide began in the '60s with both the (so-called) civil rights & anti-war movements

Gonna go out on another limb and say he meant civil rights and anti-war. Is reading really that hard, or is this one of those deals where someone isn't supposed to come out and just say it?

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That's exactly what he meant -- the Great Society was sold as being "for the children." There are more children living before the poverty level than there were then. If you think the Viet Nam War was a mistake, the War on poverty was worse -- and it's still dragging on and on and on.

I may not agree with CH on a lot of stuff, but dammit, the man has candor. Your posts meanwhile are a master class in hypocrisy.

[clintonhater]

I would hazard a guess that he meant Welfare programs,

or at least I hope,,

Actually only a part of it; the breakdown in public order, drug culture, contempt for tradition, beginnings of wholesale miscegenation, all these are more important to me.

[blackhawknj]

I like to quote the retired New Jersey judge who told a welfare queen who appeared before him as a plaintiff that she was using her children as "meal tickets" and the Great Society gave us an illegitimacy rate of 40%. While Roe v. Wade gave us a generation-several generations- of men who have rejected the role of protector and provider.
One conservative program that had some success in the 1980s was turning the management of public housing to the tenants, giving them the resources-and the authority-to supervise and maintain.
Another conservative policy is to have as much government as necessary-but no more. Recognize that taxpayers are not a cash cow to be milked. And recognize that-like a family-when you want something, you look at the budget-and see what you can cut out to pay for it instead of constantly raising taxes.

[S.A. Boggs]

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Sam

[blackhawknj]

Yes, it's only "racism" when WE do it !

[S.A. Boggs]

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Back in 15 Bernie was in Baltimore and said worse about the city, I watched the tape of him saying it.
Sam

[Sandpebble]

seen an awfull lot worse than that pic in Appalachia when I lived there .... and everyone on that mountain was a conservative white ...... just saying

[JohnPeeff]

"Rat infested" somehow racist referring to Blacks? Usually it has anti-Semitic overtures (ie. vermin) Let's see, Bernie Sanders and a former mayor(Black female) called it the same. I've never been there but the statistics speak for themselves, typical of a large city that has been under Democratic control for ages. I heard 3 or 4 former mayors in jail. Calling Trump's statement of fact racist is ridiculous.

[Roadkingtrax]

seen an awfull lot worse than that pic in Appalachia when I lived there .... and everyone on that mountain was a conservative white ...... just saying

Is Appalachian American a race or a dental condition?

[blackhawknj]

I don't recall too many stories of Appalachian folk going on rampages, protests, whatever, looting businesses, torching their neighborhoods, etc.

[togor]

I don't recall too many stories of Appalachian folk going on rampages, protests, whatever, looting businesses, torching their neighborhoods, etc.

That all sounds like work.

[rayg]

Must not be work or it wouldn't be happening, Ray

[togor]

Yes, it's only "racism" when WE do it !

Actually, no. But prejudice matters most when it can be reinforced by power, either political or economic power. If the town drunk who sleeps under a bridge hates Italians or Irishmen, then who cares. But make that same guy the richest man in town, owning half the businesses, then a different story.