<p>I don’t bash Republicans–I’ve been a registered republican for nearly 30 years. The history of the republican party as isolationist in the 1930’s and post WW2 is not bashing, its a fact. Roosevelt had to pull out every trick in the book to keep the war supplies going to the Russians and British prior to Pearl Harbor.<br>
I think maybe people tend to listen too much to talk radio and talk TV. They need to spend less time listening to Rhandi Rhodes from Air America, or Olberman on MSNBC, or Rush and Fox TV, and start to think for themselves. They are mistaking entertainment for historical context and factual information.</p>
<p>The public is being spoon fed all this dribble about the “drive-by media”, 9/11 conspiracies, etc etc and eating it up because it is easier to be told what to think than to actually do it. The extremes of both major party’s ought to be ashamed and are complicit in the dumbing-down of America.</p>
<p>Frankly, if people around the world thought in the 1930’s exactly as they think now, we probably could have avoided the Nazis, the Facists, Japanese Imperialism and WW2 all together. People now are much less tolerant as a whole of totalitarianism than they were then. Iam still amazed today how a “western”, “christian” people like the Germans, ended up being the instrument of an such evil ideology. But then, look at the history of Western Europe and the way the Jews were treated for hundreds of years. Yep, Western Civilization has enough skeletons in the closet that we need to learn from, not hide from.</p>
<p>The people of this nation have stepped up EVERY time it has been asked of them. It was ready to do the same on 9/11. Someone forgot to ask.</p>