Anyway, belated Sorry for that news.

I’ve actually never even been in a 152. Spent the night on the ice of the Yukon River somewhere between Marshall and St. Mary’s, Alaska in a wheeled 172 one time though. Ceiling just went to Hell and it was a land on the river and spend the night or chance flying into the ground thing; easy choice. It was about forty below, so it was sleep in shifts and start the engine every four hours or so. I was with a lady pilot that I knew real well but situations like that demonstrate that the old joke about “f#$k or freeze” is just that, a joke; when you really might freeze, all you think about is not freezing. Long, long night, but I’m still here to tell the story. Lady pilot got killed a year or so later; the most common Alaska epitaph – Controlled flight into terrain. She was a good one!

The politicians of the sixties rightly feared or embraced us because of our fervor and numbers. The politicians of today better fear or embrace us because of our fervor and our experience.

What’s most remarkable is that we held back the leftist takeover of the United States;

Did we? Can we really say that – knowing that we handed our kids over to the state education system that, after flushing the 1st Amendment down the toilet, realized it could flush anything down the toilet, including the gradebooks?

He’s been doing his job, paying his taxes, supporting his wife and 2.5 kids for 20 years. Suddenly he realizes, there’s gotta be more to life than this.

Along comes that 20 year old secretary. She demands nothing. No responsibility, just excitement. Whatever he wants, whenever he wants it. And if he dumps the responsibilities weighing him down, he can get a good car to tool around in with her.

So he does. Then he finds out she was not exactly what he was expecting. She’s really kind of a whore, he discovers. She’s not loyal to him, she’s wasting his money like it grows on trees and doesn’t seem to think there is anything he’d rather spend it on than cute little baubles for her. She’s whiny and acts like a baby when she doesn’t get her way.

Yeah, she looks fancy, and all his friends (European allies) think he’s got the coolest woman of them all. They kinda envy his good luck, but he’s beginning to realize, the wife wasn’t all that bad. She was sensible and took care of his business. This goofy tart he’s got is a child in an adult’s body and he’s trying to figure out just how he can get her controlled until he can make his life right again.

Responsibility isn’t looking so bad right now. Too bad she maxed out his credit cards and he’s stuck with that *very* expensive sports car.

Boomers were born into a World in which the left, often avowed communists, already had firm control of academia, the media, education, and much of the federal and some state governments. What’s most remarkable is that we held back the leftist takeover of the United States; it took more enlighten, educated, and responsible younger folks to elect a practicing communist to the Presidency.

What concerns me most about that, and this seems to apply to all generations including mine, is that because we made it through the mess created by those bad decisions, so many people assume that somehow we will always come through any other messes. Unfortunately, there are still some messes you can’t make it through, and they are best avoided.

Good post as usual.

In your case however, a perfect parable of political life in America.