Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

[Procrustes Stretched]

Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

And why do some younger Americans pick up the torch?

Insanity? Loneliness and feelings of helplessness?

 

[HUGGY]

Freedom doesn't necessarily ensure ex communists free of the means they employed to deal with their former governments. The survival mechanisms that have been ingrained in them render many(all of the ones I have come into contact with) incapable of appreciating the benefits of having been raised free.

 

[aaronleland]

Anything better than HUGGY's post?

wtf

 

[toxicmedia]

Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

And why do some younger Americans pick up the torch?

Insanity? Loneliness and feelings of helplessness?

I know the answers to that.

1. Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin both gaffed by pointing to the Russians as a threat, before a few international incidents that put them closer to being a threat. So GOP strategists have righty media promoting the downturn in relations as proof that we should have elected Mitt Romney.

2. It's the last "war" they think we won, and the GOP took credit for it.

3. The GOP has righty media promoting it further to support the more subtle narrative that Obama hates America and is a pussy.

 

[Disir]

Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

And why do some younger Americans pick up the torch?

Insanity? Loneliness and feelings of helplessness?

I remember asking my dad when I was a teenager why shit didn't change and he said that we had to wait until the Cold War Warriors died off. Some twenty years later I advised him that they may be dying off but they did a bit of inbreeding as well.

This is an empire, Dante. It must have control of all resources. It cannot be put at risk for any rising power. Besides, the contractors want money.

 

[Mr. H.]

Well it is the cold and flu season. Us elder Americans must take extra precautions.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

And why do some younger Americans pick up the torch?

Insanity? Loneliness and feelings of helplessness?

I remember asking my dad when I was a teenager why shit didn't change and he said that we had to wait until the Cold War Warriors died off. Some twenty years later I advised him that they may be dying off but they did a bit of inbreeding as well.

This is an empire, Dante. It must have control of all resources. It cannot be put at risk for any rising power. Besides, the contractors want money.

The history of humanity is about controlling resources. Doesn't make the USA any less evil or more evil than others. Of course contractors want resources to fatten their bottom line. They are in business.

Cold warriors. This is why the right wingers got behind the Reagan Legacy Project. They despised Reagan after he left office (1988). He sold out to the Soviets in their view. When the Berlin Wall came crashing down almost two years later (1 year, 10 months later), the cold warriors celebrated and woke up to the realization that nobody wanted to deal with them (Condi Rice?).

Then the Reagan Legacy Project got started and for varying reasons the old conservative/rightwing coalition joined up again. They needed an FDR of their own so they created one with the imbecile Reagan

 

[Disir]

Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

And why do some younger Americans pick up the torch?

Insanity? Loneliness and feelings of helplessness?

I remember asking my dad when I was a teenager why shit didn't change and he said that we had to wait until the Cold War Warriors died off. Some twenty years later I advised him that they may be dying off but they did a bit of inbreeding as well.

This is an empire, Dante. It must have control of all resources. It cannot be put at risk for any rising power. Besides, the contractors want money.

The history of humanity is about controlling resources. Doesn't make the USA any less evil or more evil than others. Of course contractors want resources to fatten their bottom line. They are in business.

Cold warriors. This is why the right wingers got behind the Reagan Legacy Project. They despised Reagan after he left office (1988). He sold out to the Soviets in their view. When the Berlin Wall came crashing down almost two years later (1 year, 10 months later), the cold warriors celebrated and woke up to the realization that nobody wanted to deal with them (Condi Rice?).

Then the Reagan Legacy Project got started and for varying reasons the old conservative/rightwing coalition joined up again. They needed an FDR of their own so they created one with the imbecile Reagan

Our foreign policy doesn't change with leaders. Only domestic. So, we can point fingers but, it doesn't change. It's all about the free market.

 

[Mr Natural]

Nostalgia for the good old days.

 

[TooTall]

Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

And why do some younger Americans pick up the torch?

Insanity? Loneliness and feelings of helplessness?

So we can be friends with Putin?

 

[Iceweasel]

The leftwing moonbats are fluttering around the bellfry bright and early. Any of you fucking geniuses ever look into the attoricities communists have and do commit? Why the fuck do you think the Berlin wall was erected? To keep West Germans from the East's shopping malls? People risked death to leave, it's a inhuman environment.

The youths get into it because they are brainwashed by socialist school teachers and college professors that leave the unpleasant details out and blame everything wrong in the world on US conservatives. And those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Well it is the cold and flu season. Us elder Americans must take extra precautions.

Like hiding under the bed, caressing their guns while waiting for the bomb.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The leftwing moonbats are fluttering around the bellfry bright and early. Any of you fucking geniuses ever look into the attoricities communists have and do commit? Why the fuck do you think the Berlin wall was erected? To keep West Germans from the East's shopping malls? People risked death to leave, it's a inhuman environment.

The youths get into it because they are brainwashed by socialist school teachers and college professors that leave the unpleasant details out and blame everything wrong in the world on US conservatives. And those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

And there it is - an example of one of our RW nutters hiding under the bed, caressing his guns while waiting for the bomb to explode.

 

[Ringel05]

Why are so many older Americans still fighting the cold war?

And why do some younger Americans pick up the torch?

Insanity? Loneliness and feelings of helplessness?

You honestly think the cold war really ended??!!

 

[Iceweasel]

The leftwing moonbats are fluttering around the bellfry bright and early. Any of you fucking geniuses ever look into the attoricities communists have and do commit? Why the fuck do you think the Berlin wall was erected? To keep West Germans from the East's shopping malls? People risked death to leave, it's a inhuman environment.

The youths get into it because they are brainwashed by socialist school teachers and college professors that leave the unpleasant details out and blame everything wrong in the world on US conservatives. And those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

And there it is - an example of one of our RW nutters hiding under the bed, caressing his guns while waiting for the bomb to explode.

You small minded shit hole. You can't do anything but insult people that don't goose step to your monochromatic drumbeat. Explain what the wall was for asshole, I'll wait.

 

[blackhawk]

Perhaps because Russia has a former KGB cold war warrior for a leader
who once said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. If you look at his actions in the Crimea and Ukraine it seems that wants to recreate at least some of that.

 

[Iceweasel]

It's ironic that libs support a system that is the antithesis of freedom. They're no smarter than a frog in a heating pot of water.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I know the OP said "so many" but I do want to point out that many of us of Boomer age are not living in the past, not afraid to leave the house without a gun and peeing their pants at every Fox "news" story. Many of us continue to believe in individual freedom, individual responsibility and have no need to blame Blacks/Hispanics or our president.

Just saying.

 

[Disir]

It was a disaster. Gorbachev wanted to play free market. The Soviet Union was not destroyed. It did not fall. The dissolution was brought about by Gorbachev. The financial collapse occurred afterward and Russia, having been a superpower before, is itching to get back into the game. The US is going to do all that it can to prevent it.

Therefore, fear must continue.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

The cold war was the glory days for dems, Kennedy. Nostalgic reflections abode.