America is about to revisit one of the most turbulent decades in its history, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a religious conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. "We're about to enter the '60s again,"
Then Dean goes on to ALMOST admit that all the liberal programs of the 60's were a failure. As I have said, they sound good and are meant to be good, but in the end they ALWAYS fail:
Later in his speech Tuesday, Dean appeared to backtrack. "I'm not asking to go back to the '60s; we made some mistakes in the '60s," he said. "If you look at how we did public housing, we essentially created ghettoes for poor people" instead of using today's method of mixed-income housing.Another mistake Democrats made in the '60s, Dean acknowledged, was that "we did give things away for free, and that's a huge mistake because that does create a culture of dependence, and that's not good for anybody, either," he noted, a reference to the Great Society welfare programs created by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Dean: 'We're About to Enter the '60s Again'
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Which says nothing for GWB's approval ratings lately, and that the things he's said are not stupid. *sarcastic*
Whatsamatta, game, you don't like a Dem or liberal gaining on your prez, who has such job approval ratings lately?
Or maybe we should get that from someone more american?
Even Faux News is coughing up how shitty our pRez is.
I don't think you cons have much room to talk about Dems or libs. Quit yer bitching. You got what you wanted, and deserved, and you're getting it from a well-informed american public.
Who cares what you want or lack-of-think any more. You cons are shit.
Now, when you gonna cough up and admit that your side is no better than the other?
And yeah, we've been entering the '60s ever since that illegal and ever-so-sad war in iraq started.
Which the public clearly doesn't want, either.
When did the Democrats ever leave the 60s?
They seem to interpret every event in this civil rights/watergate/Vietnam grid. (I know, watergate was early 70s, but the point holds.)
What bothers me is that Dean sees the 1960s as some sort of "enlightenment." The American 1960s represented a Counter-Enlightenment, not an enlightenment. That's when it became fashionable among many Americans to promote counter-culture instead of civilization, tyranny and social democracy instead of capitalism and liberal democracy, and social engineering instead of the Rule of Law.
In some ways, their victory has been total and complete. Jefferson, Brahms, Newton, Bourguereau, Tennyson, Euler -- are all considered old dead white people, and there's nothing the multicultural left hates more than that. Better to promote the eternal adolescent, they think.
My post was about the failed hippie liberal movement and social welfare programs of the 60's...
Liberals think they can solve everythhing by just giving people stuff who don't know what do to with it, and have no skills or determination to better themselves..
it was actually a breath of fresh air to see Dean admit that...
And since this story had nothing to do with Bush, I will not even comment on what dedanna said..(you see, liberals have a very very hard time sticking to the point)
Bush liar!!!
Illegal war!!!!
Tax cuts for the rich!!!!
ahhhhhhh!!!!!
My point was your generalization of putting down liberals again. And again. And AGAIN. And, as I said, your conservative neocons aren't doing a helluva lot better than anyone else, so you have no room to put down libs any more than neocons. Dean at least is trying to figure out & do something about the state the U.S. is in (not that he's not a joke either, cuz he is).
Now, as to whether the '60s were a period of "enlightenment", I think they were in a lot of ways. In a lot of ways, I think that today can be compared to that time. Time of war, BUT with the repression of protest of war today (at least the people stood up and fought it then).
At least people spoke up then & said that war is wrong. The public isn't even allowed that today, as the civil liberties keep getting more and more stripped under the current administration.
And game, don't bother mentioning my name in anything if you'd like -- anything anyone intelligent has to say goes way over your head anyway.
But I thought Dean was a screaming, raving lunatic.
call each story as I see it...
thanks for not making one comment, not even one word that can contribute to any meaningful debate or thought...
To put dedanna-ese in English:
"Dean is an idiot with no ideas, but at least he cares and has a noble heart, and I really, really hate Republicans."
Funny how you only zeroed in on my first paragraph there, Jason.
As for Dean, I don't particularly like him either -- but at least according to that article he is at least trying to figure things out for the U.S..
Unlike GWB, who spouts the same thing over and over again, insisting that the answers lie in a war nowhere near the U.S.
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