CITIZEN ALERT v1.198
A BETTER BREED OF CREEP
Everything was better "back in the day" wasn't it?
When I was a kid every summer my parents would take me, my brother and sister to Brownwood, TX for a family reunion. We stayed in a camping ground by a lake for the weekend and met with all our aunts and uncles and cousins. This happened every year and it was always a jam packed event.
Over the years the numbers began to dwindle, and the reunions became less fun because, well, less aunts, uncles and cousins. I think at one point it turned into a day event instead of a weekend. My grandmother or maybe it was one of my aunts - either way she was old - explained it to me. "This happens over generations. Our reunions always hit a low point as the kids growup, and older people die, you lose attendance until those kids that growup have kids of their own and want to bring them. The people that are running it now, get too old to do it anymore and the younger ones don't care yet or haven't learned yet. It's a generational gap." Well, this made loads of sense to me.
It makes me think about not only generational gaps but also the homogenous effect society can have on its own culture as arts and traditions pass from one generation to the next. Punk isn't AS punk as it was in 1977. They don't make movies like they used to. They're more about action than story. Even the radio is playing the same 10 songs over and over again. A WATERED DOWN VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL.
Why wouldn't this apply to politics? I've yet to hear any pundits out there discussing how this effects our politics. It has. You want to talk about watered down, we've gone from BUSH TO CLINTON TO BUSH and now maybe back to CLINTON and somewhere back there JEB BUSH is waiting his turn. We've watered down our presidents to two freaking families.
Take a look at the Republican party. Is the "worst president ever" a victim of this generational gap in learning, or just a watered down version of what republicans used to be? Either one is bad.
President Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush was a U.S. Senator under Eisenhower. Would you be surprised to know that Prescott Bush worked with the American Birth Control League back in the 40's and served as treasurer of the first national capital campaign of PLANNED PARENTHOOD! Today his grandson is a far cry from being a chip off the old block on that one!
But let's look at all these guys. Prescott was a supporter of Eisenhower. Nixon was not only Eisenhower's running mate, his daughter married Ike's grandson. Nixon becomes president and who's working for him, none other than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. George H. W. Bush was also Nixon's UN ambassador and later the RNC chairman. Under Ford, he almost gets to be VP but instead ends up as Director of the CIA. Then in the 80's Bush is upped to VP under President Reagan who had been California's governor during all this. Do you know who talked Nixon into making George Bush, Sr. the Director of the CIA? Cheney and Rumsfeld. Bush later made Cheney his Sec. of Defense. George W. Bush would later make Cheney his VP and Rumsfeld his Sec. of Defense.
Since the early 60's these guys have been in the inner workings of our government running incestuous circles around each other, and as links go in the chain it would naturally be Cheney's turn to be president, but he's turned that down flat as most of the world now hates his guts. Thus ends the chain. The older generation has died off, Eisenhower, Ford, Nixon, Reagan. Rumsfeld and Cheney believe it or not were the young snots.
Is it any wonder that the 2008 Presidential election is a free for all? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the DEMS have a similiar story but as you can tell from the lineage above the REPUBS have been running things a bit more.
And now, the bloodline has ended. The sacred cows for the most part have hit retirement. We are left with a new generation of politicians that will be embarking into the darkness. And the young snots against the advice of the last remaining sacred cow Bush, Sr. have royally screwed up everything. Is Iraq evidence of politicians "just aren't what they used to be"? And can the new breed of creep overcome this generation gap and drag us out of the dark ages? Sorry I don't have an answer for you. My guess is 20 years from now, we'll hate everyone that was helping Obama now.
When I was a kid every summer my parents would take me, my brother and sister to Brownwood, TX for a family reunion. We stayed in a camping ground by a lake for the weekend and met with all our aunts and uncles and cousins. This happened every year and it was always a jam packed event.
Over the years the numbers began to dwindle, and the reunions became less fun because, well, less aunts, uncles and cousins. I think at one point it turned into a day event instead of a weekend. My grandmother or maybe it was one of my aunts - either way she was old - explained it to me. "This happens over generations. Our reunions always hit a low point as the kids growup, and older people die, you lose attendance until those kids that growup have kids of their own and want to bring them. The people that are running it now, get too old to do it anymore and the younger ones don't care yet or haven't learned yet. It's a generational gap." Well, this made loads of sense to me.
It makes me think about not only generational gaps but also the homogenous effect society can have on its own culture as arts and traditions pass from one generation to the next. Punk isn't AS punk as it was in 1977. They don't make movies like they used to. They're more about action than story. Even the radio is playing the same 10 songs over and over again. A WATERED DOWN VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL.
Why wouldn't this apply to politics? I've yet to hear any pundits out there discussing how this effects our politics. It has. You want to talk about watered down, we've gone from BUSH TO CLINTON TO BUSH and now maybe back to CLINTON and somewhere back there JEB BUSH is waiting his turn. We've watered down our presidents to two freaking families.
Take a look at the Republican party. Is the "worst president ever" a victim of this generational gap in learning, or just a watered down version of what republicans used to be? Either one is bad.
President Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush was a U.S. Senator under Eisenhower. Would you be surprised to know that Prescott Bush worked with the American Birth Control League back in the 40's and served as treasurer of the first national capital campaign of PLANNED PARENTHOOD! Today his grandson is a far cry from being a chip off the old block on that one!
But let's look at all these guys. Prescott was a supporter of Eisenhower. Nixon was not only Eisenhower's running mate, his daughter married Ike's grandson. Nixon becomes president and who's working for him, none other than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. George H. W. Bush was also Nixon's UN ambassador and later the RNC chairman. Under Ford, he almost gets to be VP but instead ends up as Director of the CIA. Then in the 80's Bush is upped to VP under President Reagan who had been California's governor during all this. Do you know who talked Nixon into making George Bush, Sr. the Director of the CIA? Cheney and Rumsfeld. Bush later made Cheney his Sec. of Defense. George W. Bush would later make Cheney his VP and Rumsfeld his Sec. of Defense.
Since the early 60's these guys have been in the inner workings of our government running incestuous circles around each other, and as links go in the chain it would naturally be Cheney's turn to be president, but he's turned that down flat as most of the world now hates his guts. Thus ends the chain. The older generation has died off, Eisenhower, Ford, Nixon, Reagan. Rumsfeld and Cheney believe it or not were the young snots.
Is it any wonder that the 2008 Presidential election is a free for all? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the DEMS have a similiar story but as you can tell from the lineage above the REPUBS have been running things a bit more.
And now, the bloodline has ended. The sacred cows for the most part have hit retirement. We are left with a new generation of politicians that will be embarking into the darkness. And the young snots against the advice of the last remaining sacred cow Bush, Sr. have royally screwed up everything. Is Iraq evidence of politicians "just aren't what they used to be"? And can the new breed of creep overcome this generation gap and drag us out of the dark ages? Sorry I don't have an answer for you. My guess is 20 years from now, we'll hate everyone that was helping Obama now.
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