Kennedy and Johnson were getting close to FDR's level of respect among these liberals in the '60s, however, the commies in Vietnam took care of them at the expense of thousands of U.S. troops, U.S. hardware, and the legacy of a conservative president. Nixon became the bad guy with whom we all have been taught to associate with the outcome of the war due to him being left "holding the bag" and due to the media's collective efforts to rewrite history.

FDR's New Deal of the ‘30s was a wet dream for the liberals of the day and remains a goal to which they want to see American society return for many liberals out there today. The question for some liberals out there is HOW do we get to another day where it is only the federal government that can SAVE us?

FEAR! The hippies realized that they can use FDR's words against his supporters and the country as a whole.

Well, first they get everyone believing that the world is going to end tomorrow: Soviet nuclear destruction in the ‘70s (didn't happen) global cooling in the '70s (didn't happen), acid rain and loss of ozone layer in the '80s (didn't happen), or AIDS in the ‘90s (didn't happen), and global warming, bird flu, apocolyptic asteroid or tsunami destruction, according to the History and Weather Channel, respectively, in the '00s (aren't going to happen, either), and then that we are doomed unless we work "collectively" at the direction of these Chicken Littles to address these "problems."  In fact today the Weather Channel is declaring that the 21st century will see mass destruction due to weather!  This is like hearing me declare that the sun will RISE tomorrow morning!  Once there is such an event, they will declare it with great fanfare.

"SEE!  We were right!"  They declare that mass destruction is going to happen before it happens so that they can take credit for warning us before it happened.  Where were these crystal ball users BEFORE 9/11/01? 

If you get lucky while watching the History Channel, you may get to see a show that explains that 2012 is to be the year of apocolyptic destruction.  My tiny brain can't remember what event this show is foretelling that will lead to our demise, but we are ALL doomed.

Why is none of them declaring any threat of nuclear destruction from Iran these days like they forecast in the '80s while the Soviets had their fingers on their button?  Isn't Iran MORE of a threat today than the Soviets were near the end of the 20th century?  This is because Bush is in the White House.  The LAST thing the Iranians want is a Democratic candidate in the White House.  Let me explain.  The media will give him/her carte blanche to invade anyone's country and destroy anyone's country sans a peep since it is only a democrat who can do that sort of stuff.  From the Iranians' perspective, however, the elections in '08 are a lose/lose predicament. 

If we elect a republican, he/she will keep the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and help to develop a democratic country on BOTH sides of Iran, and the people of Iran are more likely to revolt.  If a democrat gets into office, he/she will be likely to remove the troops, and Iran will then feel unshackled enough to get a nuclear device into the hands of a terrorist group.  Then, we will get attacked, and the media will demand that the U.S. Armed Forces raze Iran to the ground and spur all of my fellow pale-skinned knuckle-draggers to think the same way too.

Since '01, The media have been trying to convince us that the U.S. economy was falling apart with Bush at the helm and his party in control of Congress when, in fact, it was gaining strength. The media polished the economic turd during Clinton’s administration, and we all had to endure a mild recession at the dawn of the Bush administration as the economy wiped its butt clean of Clintonomics - a recession on which the media placed the blame on GWB, of course.

Let me restate this. The media have been trying to use fear for the last 30 or 40 years to get us Americans to move in lock-step at the direction of these Chicken Littles like Algore or Larry David, for example. During the FDR administration, the world gave us fascism in Europe and Eastern Asia, and we responded with isolationism, initially. Britiain started its war with a fascist Germany growing too big for its britches long before it involved us. Britain, after Germany capitulated, then left us to defeat Japan on our own as it rebuilt London. This fascism in Europe and Eastern Asia and our isolationism were acceptable among the American public until the attack on Pearl Harbour brought this conflict to our shores.

Upon reaching the age of adulthood in the '60s, these hippies realized that they must frighten the American public since we, "have nothing to fear but fear itself," to the point where we will buy any of the crap that they are selling us. They learned from the master - FDR. They learned that it is fear that  they can use to get the American public behind their cause. It is this conflict between the hippies and and the FDR-types among the democratic party that generates much of what a smaller and smaller portion of America watches on the 6:30 news every night.

Some liberals are pursuing this "We are all going to die tomorrow" goal actively. The media, above all, want to see the United States return to those halcyon days where the government can do no wrong as far as they are concerned like in the mid-to-late '30s. This is what the Kyoto accords would have helped to do through senseless and unrepresented taxation on businesses. Since this is a representative government, the media must convince a majority of the voting public that there are problems that we, the public, cannot fix by ourselves through the decisions that we make collectively through what we do or don't purchase.  Were this Venezuala, all the media there would need to do is to convince ONE man - Hugo Chavez!  Chavez now can kill anyone who fails to agree with him for the good of the State. Thank goodness for the foresight of our Founding Fathers and for them developing the sound idea of a representative government. Count your prayers EVERY night, my friend!

Let’s characterize these liberal types who want to return to the '30s to rewrite the liberals' dogma as a New School Liberal (NSL), and the term hippy can also be applied to them as well. On the other side of the coin, we have the Old School Liberal (OSL) who holds the ‘30s dogma as sacred, and rewriting it as the NSLs want to do would be to him/her like letting someone re-write the Bible today.

This is a religion to OSL types. The OSL is reverent of his/her dogma and characterizes the NSL types as unwashed heretics, usually behind closed doors! We knew OSLs in the '80s as Reagan Democrats. The OSL wants to believe that FDR got it right, and he/she is usually pro-life. Granted, most of these people are passing away now due to their old age. So their days MAY be numbered. Get ready to be eating a lot more granola! Heck, these NSL types are already taxing fatty foods and banning the USE of some cooking oils because we, among the public, are too stupid to know what is good for us!  Pursuit of happiness be damned!  Many of the NSL types don't provide the right to LIFE to any unwanted and unborn infant which could be considered a good point from the conservative perspective because the NSLs are killing their own and calling it CHOICE.  Fortunately, many of the NSL types are nearing the retirement age. So they will be dropping away soon too.  For this reason they must hurry.

We (the viewing public) will never have these democrat intra-party arguments explained to us by the media, but you can see them sometimes if you know where to look and can read the stitches of the media fastballs. Limbaugh comes closest, and most conservative radio hosts have made prosperous careers out of making this point-of-view available to those of us on the outside – those of us too stupid to be living in D.C., Boston, New York, L.A., or San Francisco.

There was a similar battle like this one among conservatives in the mid-to-late '70s. The OSCs didn't want Reagan as their candidate in the post-Watergate election of '76 and his NSC ideals of a stronger military and smaller government to run the party in '76.  The powers-that-were for the republican party gave Ronaldus Maximus the boot when the primaries rolled around that year, and Ford the OSC lost to Carter the OSL due to Watergate.  Reagan came back four years later as a NSC, again, and wiped the incumbent off the electorate map, completely.

The NSLs (the hippy types) came close to reaching the level of FDR while Billy Bob was in office in the ‘90s, but he ends up coming in a close fourth or fifth in terms of respect among the liberal electorate, behind the likes of FDR, Truman, JFK and/or LBJ, mainly because there was never a war to associate with his administration. Kosovo was not a war – hardly a conflict. Do you remember the media TRYING to make it a bigger conflict than it was?  Truman's decision to drop the bombs in ’45 is what puts him on the list and makes him the BEST democratic president who ever lived in MY book. Some would argue, and there is a great deal of evidence to support the claim, that Truman's decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima/Nagasaki saved my father's life.  So, for me, this is personal.

Do you remember hearing many of Billy Bob's former subordinates lamenting the timing 9/11/01 on 9/12/01? What upset them was the fact that this attack happened during GWB’s administration and not Billy Bob’s a year earlier.  Had this happened while Billy Bob drove the desk in the oval office between visits from Monica, there wouldn’t be too much left of the Arabian world.  Billy Bob would have seen to it, with the drive-by-media's permission, that all terrorists (and everyone within 100 miles of them) died, and this would have been his crowning achievement.  Granted, there would have been death and destruction all over the Muslim World, but the media would have explained to us that the terrorists got what they deserved. Much like what we did to Japan for its attack on Pearl Harbour.

Since the terrorist attack happened under his successor’s administration, Clinton will be remembered only for getting his knob polished in the oval office while working and punting on his responsibility to return the favor to the terrorists after their deadly attacks on the embassies in Africa, the U.S.S. Cole, and the FIRST WTC attack.  He dumped those issues in the laps of Law Enforcement.

Some would argue, also, that it was his laissez-faire attitude towards terrorism that produced the likes of Bin Laden because the U.S. appeared to be tucking tail after these attacks on the embassies in Africa, the U.S.S. Cole, and WTC '93 while he was in office, i.e. Clinton made no one pay with his life for those pre-9/11 attacks during his administration. He told us that law enforcement would deal with the issue. As all nihilists are wont, Billy Bob dismissed Bin Laden simply as just another nihilist wanting to read his name in the paper or see his picture on TV during the evening news. It always takes one to know one. 

"So, what we have here is a failure to communicate, and some men you just can’t reach." Forgive me for the quote from Cool-Hand Luke, but it seemed appropriate.

There may be some in-fighting among the liberals between those who want to see a return to the '30s to get a chance to rewrite the liberal dogma and those who don't want to see the country return to the '30s because they feel that FDR got it right the first time.

"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" is their mantra.

Billy Bob was SO close to repeating the '30s in the '90s because during the '30s, there were types then, similar to the people, whom you saw just last weekend at those war "protests," who just wanted the U.S. minding its own business while a republican is running the country, the rest of the world be damned. These people are isolationists, for the moment.  Isolationism is fine, but you must be prepared to pay the consequences either way.  The premier isolationists, the Frogs (French), came crying to us after Hitler invaded Paris in the summer of 1940, and we could not remain isolationists while Germany had its way with its neighbors across the pond. Luckily, Japan gave us a means to justify entering the conflict raging in Europe.

Were a Democrat sitting behind-the-desk in the Oval Office at the time of the attacks in '01, the media's opinions would be 180 degrees from where they are now. Those protesters would be graying NSLs who would be singing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or whistling the Marine Hymn - not NSLs looking for their next hit of weed or what have you. Since a republican holds the office and has taken the battle to the enemy, the NSLs are crying about the "abuse" at Guantanamo, 500,000 dead Iraqis, and the Surge!

In their minds, the freedoms and the rights of the citizens of another country are not our problem. Heck! France made our revolutionary war its problem only to spite the British with whom they fought for many of the centuries preceeding the American Revolutionary War, but the world was so backwards then, and Colonial France, at the time, thankfully, was one of the most advanced countries in the world. Let's jump back to the first-half of the 20th century now. This ideal of isolationism was an idea rampant in Europe among the "learned" classes in the ‘30s that gave us Hitler. These people just told themselves, mistakenly,

"If we just give Hitler a little bit of land, then he will leave us alone. Not a problem." Many of the Jews in the '30s in Europe subscribed to this ideal until it was too late.

Hitler marched his military throughout Europe and N. Africa to little or no resistance. Today, these same sorts of people are telling us the same thing by saying, for the most part. Just replace Hitler with Ahmadinejad and land with nukes, and you will hear much of what the intelligentsia are telling us today.

These people also like to tell us,

"We don’t need to be too concerned with another terrorist attack because the 9/11 hijackers just got lucky. All those hijackers just needed a hug!" These same people said the same thing about the Soviets in the '80s and early '90s. Well, another attack like 9/11 is not likely for many reasons because no group of passengers is going to let that happen again. Any terrorist who announces to the passengers that he is going to hijack the plane is going to be met with a rush of passengers headed for the cockpit to wrest control of the plane from the terrorists. So, be prepared to endure either a dirty nuclear bomb or a nuclear attack itself. Never will there be another successful hijacking of a commercial airplane again.

Then if the terrorists attack again, and there is a democrat at the helm, the media will begin telling us that we must mow down these people and afford them no refuge anywhere in the world. THIS is my prediction. The days after 9/11 saw me listening to liberal-leaning toady friends, other than you, Tom, telling me,

"We need to know our enemy!"

No, we don’t! Our enemy has declared himself, and he is an Islamo-fascist.