"If you believe the blossoms on a peach tree, the gentle warmth of the sun and the marvel of a new-born baby emanate from some source more lofty than the test-tubes of welfare state chemists......."
....then this one's for you. Today's album is from the Key Record label out of L.A., and reveals the lighter side of 1960s right wing nutjobs. Maybe you'll be surprised to learn that this label that featured the greatest hits of the John Birch Society also offered an album by future president Ronald Reagan, released in 1964, the same as this album.
One hee-larious story Mr. Anderson tells is of an Arkansas couple who move to Detroit, and seek out a school with the smallest number of black children attending, seven in all. They ask their young daughter about her first day, and she says that she ate her lunch with the seven black kids. When quizzed about her choice, she replies, "You didn't want me to sit with the YANKEES, did you?" Kids say the darndest things.
This might sound like a quaint period piece, but sadly it helps to explain a lot going on in US politics even today. Just replace "Communist" with "liberal", and here we go again.
Here We Go Again (1964)
2 comments:
It explains nothing about current politics - to equate the communist witch hunts of the 1950s with the use of the term liberal is very misleading - it's like comparing My Lai to the Holocaust.
There are many , such as myself, who are liberal on social issues but are conservative on economic issues, who know that the Keynesian economics revived by Obama should have stayed discredited
I do enjoy your blog, however. Keep it up!
pwd -
I describe myself as you describe yourself, and I think you misunderstood the intent of the original post.
Just visit the comment section of ANY Yahoo, Huffington, etc. news article to see the absolutely virulent hatred spewed at all "liberals" by our scarily large undereducated & fearful underclass.
Then go pour yourself a stiff drink, you'll need it!
Keynes sucks donkey dong ;-)
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