No country for old Men

I received this in an email and I can not see much that I disagree with:

No Country for Old Men


Growing old in a country you no longer recognize.

Those of us who were part of the Baby Boom generation, now in our 60s and 70s, no longer recognize the nation in which we grew up. We are strangers in a land that gets stranger by the day.
We believed in the American dream. We worked hard, paid our taxes and obeyed the law —even laws we thought were idiotic.
We married and had children. Today’s young adults cohabit and have pets.
We struggled to raise families. Some of us went to war, like our fathers and grandfathers before us. We thought that when we grew old, there would be more for us – more than alienation.
Most of us don’t recognize Biden’s America. Patriotism has become passe. Our military is led by men who are social workers and politically correct hacks.

They can’t fight, but they’re great at getting soldiers to use preferred pronouns and combating imaginary racism in the ranks.
Giant corporations have replaced individual enterprise, which – in many cases – has been taxed and regulated out of existence. Government bureaucrats and corporate executives are like the pigs and men at the end of Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
We look in vain for a Ronald Reagan, a Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt. Instead, we find corrupt clowns like wizened Nancy Pelosi, Commissar Ocasio-Cortez (the Cuban pinup girl selling socialist snake oil) and our president – a cranky septuagenarian slipping noisily into senility.
If we’re white, we’re told that we are responsible for every problem that plagues people of color. That’s right, we’re to blame for the roughly 70% of black children born out of wedlock (we forced their parents to behave irresponsibly), just as cops are to blame for the deaths of thugs who threaten their lives.

Savages who burn down cities are hailed as heroes and celebrated as warriors for social justice. But misguided middle-class citizens, among them veterans, who trespassed in the Capitol 14 months ago are branded traitors and insurgents.
Mayors take down statues of Washington and Columbus and commission murals of George Floyd.
If you’re white, you’re also responsible for slavery, segregation, the Wounded Knee massacre and Japanese Americans interned during World War II. Racism is in our blood, they tell us. Remember, throughout the course of human history, racism has never existed anywhere but here.
By “despoiling the earth,” we’re also responsible for climate change. If we end up paying $7-a-gallon for gas – well, it’s our own damned fault.
Forget racial minorities. Now, we’re told that there are “sexual minorities” -- that people who used to be considered odd are in fact oppressed. And that a man who thinks he’s a woman in fact is a woman – and is entitled to use the ladies’ room with our granddaughters. And if we refuse to accept this bizarre fantasy, we are hateful.
What passes for entertainment is sickening – all blood and gore, sadistic killers, aliens who pop out of people’s stomachs and monsters in various guises. We search in vain for contemporary movies with characters we can admire or at least care about. So we retreat to cinema of the 40s and 50s on TCM.

On top of living in a country that’s unrecognizable, we can’t even afford to live here anymore. You need a second mortgage to buy a steak. A hamburger and fries at McDonald’s is a gourmet feast.

Filling up the tank is agonizing. Paying confiscatory taxes marks us as serfs. Inflation is at a 40-year high, and politicians tell us it’s because government isn’t spending enough.

Our parents could retire at 65, in the mortgage-free home they bought in their 30s. We’re still working at 75. Retirement is a distant dream. We’re working to provide benefits for illegal aliens, addicts and loons who camp and defecate on the streets.
Many of us are the grandchildren of immigrants, a fact of which we are proud. Our people helped to build this country. But we witness with unalloyed horror the tide flowing across our southern border unimpeded. The middle class view them as criminals, gang members and mooches. The Democratic party sees them as voters. We can’t defend our own borders, but are expected to defend those of distant lands.

This used to be an English-speaking country. Now it’s ballots in 20 languages, court interpreters and press one for Serbo-Croatian.
Our feeble president (who’s been sucking on the federal teat for half-a-century) is unable to perform his Constitutional duties, but has successfully waged war on domestic energy production. We went from energy independence to beggars with a gas can in a matter of months. The corpse that walks says climate change is the biggest threat our national security – along with transphobia.

Washington sputters about Putin’s war on Ukraine, but imports 670,000 barrels of Russian oil a day. While he lets pipelines rust and our oil, coal and natural gas remain in the ground, Biden pleads with the Saudis to pump more – and is thinking about imports from the Marxists of Venezuela and the jihadists of Iran, both Russian allies. Apparently, oil from anywhere outside the U.S. doesn’t pollute.

Officeholders for life treat us like mentally-challenged children. They snicker at those who pay their exorbitant salaries.
So we limp along into old age, too proud to go on the dole and too stubborn to just give up.
Besides, surrender now would be a betrayal of the America that once was.

Probably someone will take strong offense as either their memories are short or they missed the dream that was once America.

Only one problem I had. Retirement used to be at 55, at least in my country.

Everything else said is spot on.

If you can see with hindsight, you can work out the myriad of small things that shaped our generation and things that shaped the generations that followed us. Much of it was music, TV and movies. None of it was noble and nice, instead it was evil and so wrong.

Being awake we can see the hands of Intel agencies dirtying our lives decade by decade.

But I will not go quietly into the darkness.

I will help to shine the light on the many roaches that inhabit our Government and agencies.

Let there be light!

P

Or they squandered the opportunity given them by their parents and neglected the duty owed to their offspring.

It was all a dream.

a reply to: 727Sky

originally posted by: Dalamax
Or they squandered the opportunity given them by their parents and neglected the duty owed to their offspring.

It was all a dream.

a reply to: 727Sky

The awful truth. The Peter Pan generation.

Can you lmagine being away for 30 years and going Kmart and no one speaks English.

I thought this was about the most over-hyped film in the history of moving pictures after Blair Witch.

a reply to: 727Sky

This used to be an English-speaking country.

That is wrong.

This was NEVER an English speaking country.

I'll break it down for you...
A. Indiginous people would disagree with that statement
B. The first settlers came from all different places, and were brought from different places. They spoke English, German, Italian, Portugese, Chinese, Various African dialects.
C. Legally, English has never been the official language of the US.

The Federal government allows Americans to speak any language they want. This right is protected in the Constitution

a reply to: 727Sky

Savages who burn down cities are hailed as heroes and celebrated as warriors for social justice. But misguided middle-class citizens, among them veterans, who trespassed in the Capitol 14 months ago are branded traitors and insurgents.

I'm no bleeding heart liberal, but this is crap.
Both of these groups are wrong. As a person that considers themselves very middle when it comes to politics we need to call out both sides.

Words like "misguided" should not be used for law breakers. I'm 100% for legal protest on both sides, it's as American as it gets. Once you start burning things and breaking windows you are past that...

a reply to: JAGStorm

Which Indiginous people? The tall ones buried in the mounds that we are not allowed to dig in?

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: 727Sky

Savages who burn down cities are hailed as heroes and celebrated as warriors for social justice. But misguided middle-class citizens, among them veterans, who trespassed in the Capitol 14 months ago are branded traitors and insurgents.

I'm no bleeding heart liberal, but this is crap.
Both of these groups are wrong. As a person that considers themselves very middle when it comes to politics we need to call out both sides.

Words like "misguided" should not be used for law breakers. I'm 100% for legal protest on both sides, it's as American as it gets. Once you start burning things and breaking windows you are past that...

Misguided should be reserved more for legal descriptions, such as for those who would follow a quack doctors instructions, and demands, and follow through with any stupidity that he suggests that they do, such as, drink poison koolade ,take toxic injections, take a nice gas shower, or run off a cliff

a reply to: 727Sky

TL;DR
Republican good, Democrat bad.


Meanwhile in the real world both parties , in their current forms, are failing the country.

Correct. Both sides treat the people with great callousness and severe indifference.

a reply to: opethPA

a reply to: 727Sky

I think every generation could say the same thing; this is not the same country I grew up in.