Even if he is a liberal Republican (he claims to be a conservative) I’m very surprised that the leftist faculty hasn’t driven him out by now, on second thought maybe he is a plant, that’s the only reasonable explanation as to why he still has a job at a public university in this state after announcing himself Republican years ago.

That being said of course I disagree about giving blue dog dems a pass, maybe this time only though we should give our left wing Republican friends a pass for the next election cycle.

Anyway, I think drafting the grad students was the pivotal thing in catalyzing opposition to the War and the Draft and the reason all Hell broke loose in ’68. Somehow I was thinking that was later and was the impetus for there being so much anti-war stuff in 71 – 72.

Memo to file: Whenever you take over a government, very noisily fire everyone you have a legal right to fire – and a few more just to show you’re not scared.

I took a class on the Harlem Renaissance while at UCLA and learned that many of the prolific writers embraced socialism and communism. It is amazing how so many in the black community are ignorant to what the so-called leaders espoused. No surprise that Van Jones and Maxine Waters, among others are embracing this crap. And to think…Booker T. Washington would be considered an Uncle Tom now.

Anyways, it’s my first time replying to you. I enjoy reading your posts; I always learn something new.

These help leave us vulnerable to the turning of the Democratic Party in the 1970s that Art so well outlines, and the consequences thereafter.

And many of these people and their ideological heirs have remained in the federal bureaucary like termites, expanding their influence – and now with the current adminstration in place, this long-term subversion of our governmental structures now is finding a release point.

At the same time, now that the termite damage is coming to light, we have a better chance to expose the network of rot and perhaps arrest further decay if we can bring in a competent exterminator, assuming the foundations aren’t so rotted out that the house collapses first.

But much of this will depend on current political leadership opening their eyes, recognizing the grave situation that we have arrived at, and willing to do something different that has the chance of being effective, which includes Art’s prescriptions for treating the infestations (i.e. shadow government).

Concurrently with the increasing radicalization of the civil rights movement opposition to the war in Vietnam and more specifically to the draft had become both vehement and radicalized by 1968. King and many other Black leaders and personages, e.g., Cassius Clay/Muhammed Ali, voiced opposition to the war, the draft or both. The glue in American society seemed to have dissolved in 1968: RFK assassinated, MLK assassinated, LBJ forced from office, another “long, hot summer,” and the Democrat Convention disrupted by rioting. The Left supported Eugene McCarthy, openly opposed to the war. Nonetheless, the “old guard” held on and nominated LBJ’s VP, Hubert Humphry, who only narrowly lost to Richard Nixon, who had expressly promised to end the war. The student radicalism that most associate with the ’60s reached its apogee in the early ’70s. Nixon’s attempts to end student draft deferments for graduate students deeply radicalized the students and for the first time many parents began to openly oppose the war and the draft. The Democrat Party abandoned support of the “Democrat War” altogether and nominated George McGovern. McGovernite groups had taken over many local and state Democrat Party organizations in pursuit of the nomination. While the McGovern campaign ended in ignominious defeat, the McGovernites not only held on to their gains but continued to expand their hold on the Democrat Party. The war began to wind down after Nixon’s victory and the draft both reduced its manpower calls and went to a lottery system reducing the uncertainty of those subject to the draft.

The student radicals of the sixties and seventies did not make the colleges radical. The professorial ranks of most colleges had long been leftist and many were open communists even in the ’30s. What student radicalism in the ’60s did was allow open radicalism by the professors and much greater tolerance of student radicalism and general bad behavior by college administrations. Even in my small Southern colege I watched the school go from fairly strict in loco parentis in ’67 to no holds barred by the early ’70s. I was a musician, a longhair, and a doper in those days and even for someone who was a part of the changes sweeping the Country, the changes were dizzying. And then it all ended with the end of the draft. Except that it didn’t, not really.

Most of those radicalized students went on with fairly normal lives and got mugged by the reality of the economy of the ’70s. Lots of them even became Republicans. Many however had stayed in school through their doctorates in order to keep a 2S deferment. Those now fifty and sixty-somethings are the tenured professors in today’s colleges and universities. Many of the radical leadership went into the environmental groups and to organized labor. Many also went into politics with huge gains in the Congress and state legislatures in ’74 and ’76. When I first came to Alaska in ’74, the McGovernite wing of the Democrat Party bolted the fairly conservative trade union dominated mainstream Party and backed a Republican, Jay Hammond. Their reward was getting most of the appointed positions in Hammond’s two term tenure and they and their progeny still are the dominant force in the bureacracy.

If you’re looking for the SDS leaders of the ’60s, they’re the operatives of the Democrat Party, the heads of the major environmental and “progressive” interest groups and non-profits, and especially they’re the operatives and leaders of the big wall to wall public and service employees unions as well as some of the CIO industrial unions. Those are the people who got “Clean for Gene” and continued in the Alinsky style to work methodically within the system to bring themselves to power. The organizing of the Democrat Party and the Country that they began in 1972 reached fruition with the candidacy of one of their own in Barack Obama. In November of 2008, They Won.

However, I am not white washing history. Democratis in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960′s were NOTHING like the democrats of today.

Truman and Kennedy believe 100% in American exceptionalism. 90% of the US population did, and 99% of our elected officials did.’

Now the numbers are far lower. Any failure to acknowledge the decline that occurred in the 1960′s is a failure to do justice to the question.

Something happened in the 1960′s—something utterly horrible

I loved that man but there were a few policies that I was not quite on board with.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

I’ve considered explaining to her that communism is oppressive by design but so far she hasn’t seemed to remotely listen to what I respond – just keeps making new arguments and changing the subject.

This particular Aunt is a lawyer which seems to render her especially argumentative.

Esser defended Dr. Manweller as being loyal and hardworking.

What doe that have to do with the price of eggs in China?

My question for Mr Esser is this…what kind of product is the “loyal” and ward working” Manweller delivering as a policy maker if he believes Republicans lose elections by winning them?

Sounds like Mr. Esser is part of the problem doesn’t it?

Most liberals don’t.

That’s one of the reasons they know so little about so much.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

Such a victory would not be good for America. After having lost the trust of the American people in 2006, the GOP needs to show that they can put country above partisan gain.

I’m thinking…if Mr Manweller thinks the way to put country above party is to help the Democrats maintain their majority…maybe he should go join the WA Democrat Executive Committee and help the Democrats put country above party by helping to elect Republicans…He’d be a better fit over there…and he’d help elect more Republicans by the shear weight of his stupidity!

Remember that Communism – with its internationalism – is the antithesis of American Exceptionism.

60 years ago, in 1949, we were reaping the fruits of years of Communist infiltration into our government that had been going on since at least the 20′s, following the success of the Bolshevik revolution – and Communist ideas had been in circulation for decades previously.

I suspect that if your drew a graph, you would see exponential growth in Communist ideological support through WWII, and the exponential rate did not begin to slow down in the 1950s with awareness of Stalin’s crimes and exposure of Communist cells in government and elsewhere.

Since then, we have seen ebbs and flows, with a general trend line of more people rejecting American Exceptionalism.

What is new is that we now have an avid Communist and enemy of American Exceptionism in the White House and in key Congressional leadership positions, who in turn are appointing many other of their buddies to key government positions.

Thus we are in the gravest danger since our nation’s founding of losing our patrimony – which will bring a great darkness to the world that may never be recovered short of post-apocalypse (if there is a “post”),