Back in the day if I said we were being brainwashed about Vietnam would that be sedition/treason?

[tyroneweaver]

Those of us that are old enough remember George Romney's brainwashing by vietnam comment
Probably the closest thing to the truth at that time, but was viserated over his comment.
Proposes a bit of a quadrium for mItts comment about calsi.

Politics by gaffe: recalling the 'brainwashing' of George Romney - MinnPost

This bit of American political history is slightly relevant because his son Mitt Romney is wobbling in his status as frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But the anecdote is also an example of the silliness of Gong Show Politics.

www.minnpost.com

 

[Votto]

Now that the fascists run the government and media, it is now hip to censor everything.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Someone needed to slay some Viet Cong.

 

[surada]

Someone needed to slay some Viet Cong.

You're 18 and talking about Vietnam?

 

[rightwinger]

There was a lot of fear mongering and misinformation going on back then about the Domino theory and the evils of Communism

Most of America bought into it

 

[lg325]

I was just a young fellow at the time but really interested in politics. I liked George Romney. His speech at one of the conventions was a good one. My parents let me stay up late to watch the conventions they were really wild in those days with fistfights and chair-throwing. As a teen, I was pro-Vietnam war and had to defend my stance in class discussions.

 

[JWBooth]

Saigon fell a year before I graduated high school. Romney was right, it was his rhetoric that was flawed. ”I was lied to by experts and I believed them.“ makes the same point and doesn’t make him look weak minded.

 

[surada]

Saigon fell a year before I graduated high school. Romney was right, it was his rhetoric that was flawed. ”I was lied to by experts and I believed them.“ makes the same point and doesn’t make him look weak minded.

They lied to all Americans and called dissenters traitors.

 

[Sunni Man]

They lied to all Americans and called dissenters traitors.

Some dissenters were traitors.
Jane Fonda fits that category

 

[rightwinger]

They lied to all Americans and called dissenters traitors.

They wrapped themselves in the flag and called themselves Patriotic as they demanded more troops to “Win this thing by Christmas”

Any politician who opposed the war was called a traitor

 

[Oddball]

They lied to all Americans and called dissenters traitors.

Occurs to me that the "they" in charge, back then, leading the lying and beating of war drums, were democrats.

As it was, as it is.

 

[surada]

Some dissenters were traitors.
Jane Fonda fits that category

She was certainly demonized. If you questioned the war, you were accused of not supporting the troops. That was a horrible lie. You must have believed that crap.

 

[Oddball]

They wrapped themselves in the flag and called themselves Patriotic as they demanded more troops to “Win this thing by Christmas”

Any politician who opposed the war was called a traitor

Not at all unlike the leftist assholes today, who want Murica to get into WW3 over Ukraine.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

You're 18 and talking about Vietnam?

My grandfather was in the 11th Airborne during the war. He served three tours and came back full of PTSD, Nightmares and hatred towards the communists.

 

[Oddball]

She was certainly demonized. If you questioned the war, you were accused of not supporting the troops. That was a horrible lie. You must have believed that crap.

She didn't just "question the war"....She openly collaborated with people whom the military was already engaged.

 

[rightwinger]

Not at all unlike the leftist assholes today, who want Murica to get into WW3 over Ukraine.

We are being very cautious about not escalating Ukraine outside its borders

Our President has avoided bringing in US troops

 

[Oddball]

We are being very cautious about not escalating Ukraine outside its borders

Our President has avoided bringing in US troops

No you're not....Shipping billions upon billions of arms to one side is taking sides.

You're the least cautious people on the planet.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

We are being very cautious about not escalating Ukraine outside its borders

Our President has avoided bringing in US troops

This is the only thing I can congratulate him for. We don't need to be physically involved.

 

[surada]

No you're not....You're the least cautious people on the planet.

Obviously not.

 

[JGalt]

There was a lot of fear mongering and misinformation going on back then about the Domino theory and the evils of Communism

Most of America bought into it

So that means there are no paid Russian trolls shitposting pro-Putin threads on USMB, and they didn't interfere in our elections in 2016 and 2020?

I see.