Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Newt Gingrich: We are seeing the breakdown of Democratic liberals" video.
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@zefdin101 Contract with America is when the Republican Party officially gave up the fight against the expansion of the federal government into every aspect of our lives. People WANTED the government to "take care" of them, because the people forgot why the U.S. Constitution says what it does. Rather than risk being a permanent minority party, the Republicans bent the knee to Big Government.
Basically since George Bush, Sr., we've had uni-party. Big government at home. Forever War abroad. Gingrich is part of that. I really liked him in 1980. I used to watch him and other young Republicans holding their Special Orders in Congress, speaking to an empty House, for us viewers on CSPAN, back when CSPAN was still independent, before the blob got its hooks into it (basically after Brian Lamb took a step back).
But enough ancient history, imperfectly remembered.
At about that time, Democrats finally realized how forever war was just as useful to them as it appeared to be to the Republicans. Republicans could beat them by accusing them of being soft on communism.
Meanwhile, our schools got taken over by communists while both parties were fighting over who would give the military more money to fight communism abroad, while it crept into our schools. 90% of the teachers I know are socialist or have socialist leanings. All schools I know, push thinly-veiled communist ideology.
It might already be too late, because our youth are disillusioned with a fascist system they're told is "capitalism," so they're suspicious of the one thing that's pushed human progress forward throughout history. Oh, they'll teach you all about wars and generals, but they'll never point out the pockets of freedom throughout history that produced the most advancements in any given period.
Nope. We're taught that it's good to have one guy at the top bossing everybody around. It's for our own good, supposedly. But it's the only way you can send half the young men of a generation to some foreign land to die in battle.
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