Guest Post by The Zman
One of the strange aspects of the Obama years was how much of what they did was an effort to address old wounds that still haunted the Left. Health care reform is the obvious example. The Left never got over how Bill Clinton threw the Left overboard after Hillary’s health care debacle led to the 1994 election wipe-out. The Obama effort was all about addressing that old wound. The ultimate product looked like the result of a revenge fantasy, mostly because it was about addressing those old wounds.
It was not just health care. The entirety of the Obama administration was about the past, despite his endless jabbering about the glorious future. Their dealings with Iraq and Afghanistan were mostly about “proving” Bush was wrong and they were right about how to respond to 9/11. Their Iran policy was a do-over of the Carter years and their Russia policy was a do-over of the 1980’s. They even pitched Obama at one point as the Progressive answer to Reagan, He was their Ronald Reagan.
It’s not just the Left playing the old records and dreaming of better days. The 2016 Trump campaign was a WWE version of the Reagan campaign of 1980. The slogan “Make American Great Again” was borrowed from the Gipper. He ran on the slogan “Let’s make America great again” in his successful 1980 presidential campaign. It’s pretty clear Trump intends to use some version of “It’s Morning In America” in his reelection campaign next year. This campaign ad will feature a panda, rather than a grizzly.
Of course, his presidency has been a call back to past events as well. The seditious conspiracy against him by the FBI and CIA is an echo of what the Left accused Nixon of plotting back in the 1970’s. Both sides are replaying the past as a do-over. Team Trump is going win the Watergate this time, while the Left is sure Trump is going to pull off his face at any moment and reveal himself to be Tricky Dick. In this version, to keep with the current age, Peter Strzok is the soy-man version of G. Gordon Liddy.
The endless echoes of politics past is sure to continue, as we see in the Democratic presidential field. The only two people talking about the present are Gabbard and Yang, both of whom will be ushered off the stage by Labor Day. The rest all sound like museum exhibits from previous eras. Joe Biden is actually running on the slogan “Make America Normal Again.” That sounds a lot like Carter’s campaign in 1976, after Nixon and Watergate, where he promised to restore dignity to politics.
Politics is always a repeat of the past, to some degree, but what makes this age a weird echo is debates themselves. The biggest issues facing the West are never discussed, outside of dissident circles. Trump ran on immigration and trade, but no one talks about those anymore. The Democrats could be running on the student debt issue or the crisis facing the young people of the middle-class. Instead they are talking about socialism, as if it is this brand new idea that has never been tried.
One reason for this entirely backward looking perspective is demographics. Both political parties are built to compete for the votes of Baby Boomers, who remain the largest identifiable cohort. The Boomers are entering the last turn of their race, so inevitably they are sentimental and nostalgic. The fact that the most likely contest in 2020 is between an octogenarian and a septuagenarian, both white and both male, will allow Baby Boomer voters to feel like they are still young and hip.
That’s probably the single biggest cultural problem facing America today. The Baby Boom generation is not going to age gracefully. Instead of picking which one of their kids will take their keys away, they will keep a white-knuckled grip on the wheel until the country goes over the cliff. Nancy Pelosi should be in a rest home right now. Instead she wanders around the capital in her bathrobe and slippers, the third most powerful person in the Imperial government, unable to remember her own name.
The blame is not all on the Boomers. As America becomes majority-minority, the cost of cobbling together a coalition goes up. Bringing blacks and angry Jewish feminists together into a coalition is near impossible. Delivering anything to the white middle-class means standing in front of the open sewer that is Progressive morality. Multicultural America is an ungovernable riot of competing interests, so it is a lot easier to go the nostalgia route and court the white Baby Boomers. It’s easy and fun.
There’s also the fact that no one wants to face up to the truth of the current situation in present day America. Inviting in 50 million strangers was a bad idea. Fixing it means telling most of them to go home. Civil Rights was arguably noble and decent, but the downstream result was a disaster. Bringing back free association is too scary for the soft men and unstable women of the ruling class. Our political class is mostly cucks and kooks, unable and unwilling to muster anything resembling courage.
That’s where we are now. America is a country ruled by cucks who are afraid of the future, so they rummage around in the past. They’re like children putting on shows for their parents, wearing their clothes and singing their songs. It’s all echoes of the past and cucking to current fads. It is an entirely useless ruling elite that will have to be wiped away, before we can face the future. Barring an asteroid strike and societal collapse, it means waiting for the great Baby Boomer die off to clear the path forward.
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That resonates, right there. They don’t even care if we believe what they’re saying anymore. Because they know we all understand their premises to be founded upon lies. It’s a show. An act. A charade. Like Robert Mueller, for example, being a man of integrity. The dupes will feed on the falsehoods so they can be part of the act; when, in reality, they could care less about fairness or justice or integrity. And the elites chuckle over their puppet strings and stacked decks as more and more folks awaken in an Orwellian dystopia.
Still, the show goes on…
Our cultural has been completely juvenile in outlook and execution for some time now. It’s junior high forever from here on out, so hunker down.
They are all crooks. Every year the debt and wars seem to both grow. How long can it last?
The obvious is spoken. Could it have been prevented ? Does it matter now ? Tic toc
Sorry, this isn’t a generational thing, this is an identity politics thing, every little special interest group is pandered to, every piss ant, marginal and ultimately useless tiny group of pathetic losers now has a ‘voice’ and must be considered in legislations and actions that affect huge swaths of the country. I could give two shits about some mentally ill tranny and it’s bathroom needs, ditto all homosexuals, illegals, deviants, ‘me-too’ females wearing idiotic hats, ghetto blacks, meth-mouthed drug addicts, street shitting lunatics and non-taxpaying non-citizens.
The two events that shaped the lives of the Greatest Generation were the Depression and WW II. When I was 16, in 1969, these two events were still of recent memory, the Depression ending 30 years before and WW II a mere quarter of a century before. But for the Baby Boomers of the time, and I am one, this was ancient history, having nothing to do with all the wrongs of the world, which we agreed were the fault of our parents. This left the parents a little hurt, and not a little confused. Where was the gratitude, they asked, for our sacrifices that provided the safety and security for our Boomer children? We Boomers just sadly shook our collective heads at parents who clung to worn our ideals that they hypocritically never lived up to anyway. It was out time now, and we we would do better.
The weird thing is that the events that largely shaped the Boomers arose largely in the 1960’s, a period that ended 50 years ago, and we still cling to that time as if it was relevant today. To us it is, of course, as we stroll down memory lane towards the retirement home. Back then, we were young, and we changed the world, if not for everybody, at least for ourselves. Sex, drugs and rock and roll were our orders of the day, and we knew how to par-tay! We freed ourselves from the clutches of The Man, and were, no doubt, the REAL Greatest Generation. Just follow our leads, kids, we know what we are doing. We were at Woodstock, for God’s sake! And, don’t forget, our intentions were pure.
No wonder a lot of the younger cohorts are irritated with us. Oh, sure, they think, some revolution– sex, drugs and rock and roll. That must have been a tough sell. As for the rest, it looks more to us that you grabbed while the getting was good, feathered your collective nests damn well, and left the bill to us to pay for the entitlements you enjoy. And shut up about the 60’s, and the time you got down with Grandma, whatever that means. It grosses us out. Keep your politics. Everything you touched turned to ruin, and now it is up to us to overthrow The Man, undo all the damage done by you, and build a new world.
Hey, man, is it me, or does it seem like the youngsters are on a bad trip? Bummer, dude.
Yes exactly.
I was on the very tail end of the Boomers, and never felt like one, acted like one, identified as one. My take on the Greatest Generation was that they tried, but weren’t educated enough to accomplish what they tried to do. Social Security was derailed by better medicine, and that was known by 1970 AT LEAST. So what should have been done? SS should have been ended, the contributions rolled back to the contributors and all retirement funding become personal. What WAS done? Mostly nothing; I can’t collect until I turn 67, but had to pay into it all my life, for a system that will fail by 2035 at the latest. During the 1970s-1990s, the time the Boomers had solid control, the politicians did not fix the failures like SS that needed fixing. They did not stop the stupidity of the Clinton Crime Crew, the endless expansion of the federal government or the gradual corruption of the culture. They wasted their time and their impact, all around.
Nor did I identify with the next generation; most seemed like immature children. Now an even less educated generation (considers Socialism as an option despite history, which they haven’t learned) is coming up. I expect collapse any year now.
Reality cannot be cheated, and only ignored for so long. When reality comes calling the majority of the world won’t recognize the signal.
Ummmm, at best Boomers are neck-in-neck for the largest generation now….that falls onto the Millennials. Personally, I think that’s why all of the political poles have been so WAY off for the past couple of years.
Ha, that’s brilliant!
Nothing really matters or will change and we will never have any lasting hope to gain the lost Republic back until the Third American Bankster regime (the FED) is audited and ended and repalced according to the Constitution and there is TERM LIMITS for the crooks in office.
Otherwise we are hamsters running on wheels.
And ending the FED will take the SHTF during the ongoing 4th Turning. Bang a Gong…let’s get it on.
All the generational conflicts are so much yada, yada, yada from different aged inmates fighting with one another over cigarettes and snacks from the vending machines provided by the FED Warden.
Until we collectively destroy the Bankster prison we all are living and taxed to death in – to feed, everything else is window dressing from our cells.
That is why I’m a Prepper/Homesteader and armed to the frigg’in teeth. And I still have all my teeth.
Call it a prison break out, call it my Last Stand Alamo, call it me telling the Banksters (I soon will be 95% out of their death grip) to kiss my defiant, independent, free American ass…one cheek is Mick…the other is Wop…they can smooch either one…or both…or even go for the big O ring in the middle.
If and when they send their assassins they better send a bunch…it’s gonna be expensive.
Whew!!….thank goodness that the blame isn’t all on the Boomers.
Do all of us Boomers have to wear the blame for absolutely everything?, most of us average Boomers did the best we could with what we knew and it wasn’t until I was in my 50’sthat I understood the depth of corruption at every level of government that was screwing us behind our backs and by that time it was too late to change the system that we believed in…we are not all villians but we seem to the whipping boy for the later generations….every level of society has been fucked over and that means Boomers, Millenials and Snowflakes.