British World War Two Veterans Disillusioned With the Britain They Fought For
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Very understandable:
Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out.
She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand.
Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her.
As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort.
Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation’s sense of service and sacrifice.
Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally.
But was it worth it? Her answer – and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s – is a resounding No.
The article goes on to note how these elderly Brits – by far better people than their slacker grand-children – simply don’t understand why their nation was destroyed, and why they weren’t even consulted by the political bosses who made it happen. Do read the whole thing.
My father at least got to be delighted in seeing that today’s Marines are still Marines – and had to admit that, man for man, they are probably better Marines than those of WWII. But he was also dismayed by what had been wrought in the nation he fought for in World War II. To be sure, there are the undeniable good things – most notably the end of “Jim Crow”. But the problem is that the end of official racism in America is one of the few things we can really be proud of over the last 60 years. Dad and his fellow Marines did not charge ashore on Saipan so that teen pregnancy rates could go through the roof; so that prayer would be banned in public schools; so that Christmas would become “Winter Break”; so that illegals would pour in to our nation; so that our manufacturing base would be shipped to China; so that people could choose between 100 channels of feces on the television.
No, they fought for an America which doesn’t exist, any more. To be sure, they did have a hand in creating the problem – most of them voted for FDR, and thus cemented in place the New Deal provisions which entrenched the left in to American life. But they also backed McCarthy in his anti-communist investigations – and thus they wanted to get the left out. But, they failed – and as time advanced, things just went from bad to worse.
We conservatives are no longer really conservatives – to be a conservative implies trying to retain what you have. We don’t have it – we’re trying to get it back. Thus we’re actually revolutionaries – and conservatives must be such, at times. We have to recapture power and then restore the America our fathers and grandfathers knew – so that they won’t ever have to say that they wish they hadn’t fought for this nation.
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20 Responses to “British World War Two Veterans Disillusioned With the Britain They Fought For”
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Mark
This weekend at our local pup I had conversations with several middle aged men. A couple I know a couple I just met and my wife and I were astounded by the anger against obummer and his lunatic commie regime.
What used to be whispered about is now being LOUDLY and defiantly proclaimed.
My wife and I were both taken aback by the rage and defiance that is building.
There was OPEN talk of coming warfare in the streets of America and how they were preparing. These arent racist kooks,or malitia types, these are regular men who are looking around and saying what the F happened to my country? ….scary times indeed.
My father fought in WW2 in the European theater. He died at the age of 93 and wondered why the hell he even bothered to fight for a country that clearly had lost the moral principles it was founded on.
The USA owned by the Chinese and run by the most corrupt DEM admin ever. Hitler would be proud.
This is what the leftys are spewing…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEr65ZX6gLw&NR=1
neo,
Interesting contrast of the photos from the Bush years with the rhetoric of today. I’d like to think the video simply illustrates ideological ignorance, but I’m inclined to believe that the Left knows precisely what they’re doing. I think, at some point, they are in for a rather rude awakening. The key question to ask any Leftist is, “what would you be willing to sacrifice for, (fill in the blank)?”
spook
The key question to ask any Leftist is, “what would you be willing to sacrifice for, (fill in the blank)?”
YOUR MONEY and the fruits of YOUR LABOR
markllusioned:
nice talk of open warfare in the streets
are they thoughts of an enemy combatant or terrorist?
don’t worry though
americans are all talk and no action
too lazy
think mcdonalds, black friday and lipitor
As a lifelong Anglophile, I loved spending time in the UK, but was disillusioned by the weakness I saw developing in what had once been a fiercely strong and proud people. I remember when Maggie Thatcher tried to shift ownership of council housing, which we would call public housing, to those who had lived in those units for years and sometimes generations. The idea was that the monthly payment would remain unchanged but the money would not be rent, it would be creating equity and the pride of home ownership. And the uproar was astounding. These people refused to become owners, preferring to remain dependent on the government.
England is much like the US—the people in the country are still tough and independent and capable of seeing through BS and fighting for what is right, while the urban population is become more and more Leftist and at the same time more and more spineless.
The idea was that the monthly payment would remain unchanged but the money would not be rent, it would be creating equity and the pride of home ownership. And the uproar was astounding. These people refused to become owners, preferring to remain dependent on the government.
That’s quite the sobering thought. But not unlike our current crop of young and indoctrinated liberals. They are also willing to sacrifice liberty for financial security, and also believing that the government can, and will, resolve their problems. It’s a stark contrast from my generation which believed in total independence, the mandate to question authority, and the desire to be self sufficient. And here, on this thread, we have the brain damage of the inter stellar bagni, whom, irregardless of the juvenile syntax he uses, he also ridicules those who would prefer to sacrifice personal safety in the struggle for liberty. They certainly are a lost generation.
the only difference is dignity
its easy to tell then from now…then they called sodomy sodomy…now they call it a civil right…then they called abortion murder…now they call it…a right…then they cheered on TV programs that contained moral behavior…now they cheer on TV programs filled with obscenties and lewd behavior…
they had dignity…and endorsed the laws of nature…now…well…you get the idea..(if you dont you really dont want to know any way)
Yes, cluster, you described the situation perfectly. The response of the council housing residents was one of outrage, that the government was trying to pull a fast one and get out of its responsibilities by “dumping” these houses onto the residents.
No matter how often it was explained to them that they would be building equity, that they would be able to SELL these houses and keep the profits, that they could have estates they could hand down to their children, none of it mattered. All of these benefits of ownership were dismissed in favor of being able to call on someone else to solve all the problems—leaky roof, burned out light bulb, whatever.
It was like watching wolves devolve into Pomeranians, not only no longer able to take care of themselves but quite content to have some nanny state make all the decisions and do all the work, in exchange for a place to live.
js02, the Left has learned that it is really hard to conquer a nation by force, as they used to. And why bother, when they can erode it from within until it crumples and begs them to take over.
Hard-core Leftism is all about the State. The State is all. This is why the State cannot tolerate any competition for its influence and power—-competition like religion, and the family, both of which ask the individual to acknowledge an authority other than the State.
The foundation of religion is moral standards, so if you can chip away at the very concept that moral standards are acceptable, much less desireable, you undermine religion itself. When there is no right or wrong, when all is relative, when morality is decided by the individual based on the convenience of that person at that time (such as abortion is) then the role of religion is dramatically reduced.
And official scorning of religion, of the notion of God, condoned ridicule of religion and those who practice it, help dismiss it even further. Look at what has suddenly become mainstream acceptable—a religious litmus test for public office. Now it is acceptable to openly declare that a person’s personal religious beliefs should be considered as disqualifiers for the presidency. For the Left, every aspect of religion has a big target on it, is fair game for attack and criticism and ridicule.
Amazona,
Very good!
Yes, it is a concept of who is more powerful, so to speak, has more Sovereignty – God or man. As far as the competition, there really is none, God has done made it final…He created us, so we therefore have a choice to either accept and obey or reject it. Where we made our mistake was when we allowed way back then, schools to be governed by left-wing atheists. They present no competition for God, but they sure make it rough on the freedoms of those of us who do believe, because they now have a large base of people starting all the way back when they removed school prayer and Bible reading to the present.
Leftists exclaim, “Ah, we shouldn’t offend,” and now, all this acceptance of different cultures has placed in the minds of the masses a dangerously complacent radical individualism and ever-greater emphasis on man-centered ideology and themes. And of course, that was the ultimate goal of the atheists, to debase the foundations of America’s founding so as to rob God of His honor and praise.
Judgment Day Cometh!
Revolutionaries…in the service of your corporate overlords.
John 15:18-25 – 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke F29 for their sin. 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
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a true revolutionary
Revolutionaries…in the service of your corporate overlords.
Idiot…in the service of your fascist overlord…
Phlegmflam (moocher) obviously prefers to be in the service of his government overlords (looters) at the expense of the producers.
Collectivism is the enemy of freedom.
uffy,
No surrender! In honor of my grandfather and my father, I will fight and do my part to restore this nation.
I’m with you, Mark. We need to stop the tyranny and fascism that is gripping our government.
Vote conservative in 2010!!!
flimflam brilliantly illustrates what passes for intellectual political commentary from the rabidly radical Left.
“Corporate OVERLORDS ohhhh!!!! I’ll bet they wear blg black helmets and wheeeeze.
Hey, only a certain mentality can buy into the RRL propaganda, and they sure got a keeper in flimflam, whose name does show a certain subconscious awareness of the validity of his ‘positions’.
Have you noticed the increasingly infantile nature of recent postings? flimflam, alien, orrin—it reminds me of the last days of the Reich, when they had to drag in children and send them out to fight.
Feed the little rugrats some talking points to parrot, tell them they will be respected as political pundits, and send them out to become political and intellectual cannon fodder.
And history repeats itself, yet again……..