“The Establishment” was the hippies' discourse from the 1960's through the 1970s, and it is being yelled again. “The Establishment” was the call 40 years ago to change. Today, in the 2008 presidential nominee race, we hear it again. “Change” is what politicians are calling it, not the hippies. But “The Establishment” also known as the government is what they wish to change. Will the Politicians need to run to Canada for Political asylum like the hippies did 30+ years ago? Will these politicians need to look for jobs? The hippies became society's outcasts. Do a little analysis.
Presidential activities creating historical events have been going on before this hippy's lifetime. During the hippies' movement of 1970, conservative Republican Governor James A. Rhodes of Ohio ordered the National Guard to control, and break up the demonstration at the State University at Kent, Ohio. The Kent State Massacre was the result. Crosby, Still, Nash and Young's hit song, “Ohio” soared off the charts shortly after. “Four dead in Ohio” became the hippies' cry. We can only hope there won't be political assignations this time. If you don't remember your American History, here's a list of Presidents during these diverse times:
# 34. Republican Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 Moderate Republican, Korean War, ending the War, negotiations with French
# 35 Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 Cuban Missile Crisis, Viet Nam, he was killed in Dallas, Texas.
# 36 Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 The Great Society Program, Viet Nam Military Police Action/Occupation, soaring costs.
# 37 Republican Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 Reconciliation with China and USSR, The Kent State Massacre, Viet Nam ended, opening negotiations with China, The Watergate Investigations, and Nixon's Presidential Resignation
# 38 Republican Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 The Viet Nam Recovery, he needed to resettle Americans governmental doubts.
# 39 Democrat James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 Iranian Shaw deposed, and Iranian Hostage Crisis, Israeli Peace Talks, inflation reached 17% annually with the first fuel oil crisis. Gasoline went up from $0.35 to >$1.35. Failed Hostage rescue with military deaths in Iranian desert.
# 40 Republican Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos overthrow, down fall of USSR, the breaking up of the Berlin Wall
# 41 Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 “World Police Force” rejected by the people, Iraq War.
# 42 Democrat William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 The GDP increases above 10 trillion dollars, Israel-Palestinian peace talks, sex scandal in Oval Office, overt lying to cover-up scandal
# 43 Republican George Walker Bush, 2001- xxxx, recession, moderate recovery, Afghanistan War, 2nd Iraq War, 2nd recession, 9/11, uncontrolled White House spending, uncontrolled bank lending, extreme Executive Power “the Patriot Act”, FEMA, Home Land Security, “The US Constitution is up to Interpretation.”
The two Presidents known to stick out are John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and Richard Nixon's (Tricky Dickey) uses of ease dropping on Democrats, which lead to the Watergate Investigation with Richard Nixon's Presidential Resignation. What is apparent --- if human beings could live at peace, and/or without governments they would, but developmentally human beings haven't reached the necessary universal social animal thinking. The biblical passages against kingdoms, the prophet Samuel spoke to the Hebrews, should have been heeded. Worldly ways are attacking the US Constitution today. The difference between the worldly ways, and Godly ways: Human ideologies contradict people's beneficial existence. Godly ways are never in contradiction to human survival. One of the Founding Fathers of American Democracy, James Madison, graduate of the College of New Jersey later named Princeton. Theology, history, and law were is fields of study. He was quoted saying, "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
All of the Constitution's fathers were reared with Biblical teachings. Home schooled or church schooled was the social norm of their time. All of the founding fathers had a college education. The Constitution was written with reference to their teachings. Religious freedom was the spawn of North American governments, because the new land had no religion social ills. Calvinists (Puritans) needed to leave Europe's pressures for faith's freedom, and the new land was their immigration destination. Many less than congenial events have been occurring in the Danish, the British, and the French countries because of immigration control failures. The United States needs to pay attention, because they haven't been frugal enforcing their immigration laws either. 9/11 was an outside announcement of the problems brewing about the United States. Cultural displacement allows immigrant grievances to be focused on the new culture. This offers the inhabitants a counter reasoning against the immigrants when chaos erupts. The country's irresponsible approach is in contradiction to its own laws. What is happening? Government's hang signs on different peoples' heads reading, “aim at me” as social ideologies are pitted against the other. To pit against is the correct expression when government sets the standards, but don't enforce their standards. It is no different than the KKK burning crosses on the front yards of victims. The KKK trademark was the burning cross. The sign is to recruit others holding the same views. In today's terminology, the label is terrorism. Ideological groups are using the world media to pass out recruitment applications. Violent videos are very good recruitment for the Muslim disadvantaged. Why? In every country there isn't a balance between the haves, and the have-nots. By all means the media should cover these events, but the people beholding these events are required to understand the reality.
