John Kerry: President Of The Counter Culture Not The United States
By Monte Kuligowski (11/01/04)
Vietnam was the most sweepingly destructive era in U.S. history. Yes, America had some trying times before. You could argue the Civil War period was much worse. The country was divided brother against brother and more American lives were lost in one battle than in all of the Southeast Asian battles combined.
Nevertheless, the country was able to recover from the Civil War. It didn’t happen overnight, but it happened. America became one nation under God again. Sharing common values, the states were able to reunite. The American flag flies proudly in both the North and the South. Southerners can look back now and agree that slavery was wrong. Most of the rebels from the Vietnam period, to the contrary, will not look back and agree they were wrong.
The Vietnam era was different and the counter culture it produced refuses to be assimilated back into the fabric of the whole. The old and grey protesters still believe they were right. The movement was led by a group of spoiled, rebellious young people who thought they knew better than their parents and grandparents. Now they believe they know better than Joe America. They thought abstract principles of peace and love could save the world once severed from their traditional religious foundation. America was the problem and still is the problem today. Communism really wasn’t that bad and the U.S. was overreacting with the doctrine of Containment. Rather than being virtues, Christianity and moral clarity were and are unenlightened vices in the world. The era united idealistic youth with the intelligentsia in the media and academia around the common cause. The common cause was and is to overthrow our antiquated way of thinking and to usher in a new age of tolerance, diversity and pluralism (although those code words weren’t used in the early 70s).
In other words, they want to create a world of moral relativism. The counter culture, now made up of people we call liberals, is working hard to become the dominant culture. Without question they now dominate the media, the Hollywood community and the academic world. The rebellious generation unleashed a flood that is hard to reverse and its waters seem to rise with each new generation. America now finds herself smack in the middle of a culture war and the nation is divided like never before. Liberals refuse to unite again as one nation under God. They see the world very differently than conservatives. Their flags of patriotism might fly outwardly for political purposes, but inwardly they are anti-America to the core. You could say they are pro-America, but their America is not recognizable to past generations. They view the war on terror much the same as they viewed the Vietnam War; with a cynical eye. The murdering Islamic terrorists need to be understood. Perhaps, they reason, we are the real problem. Maybe we could all get along if the U.S. wouldn’t provoke terrorists and overreact with a unilateral war.
Now, you knew John Kerry’s name would come up in this piece and I trust it’s not hard to see the connection. Vietnam was the wrong war then. Iraq is the wrong war now. America was to blame then. America is to blame now. No one embraces and espouses the values of the counter culture more than John Kerry – after all, he led the movement. Sen. Kerry is a walking definition of the word liberal.
John Kerry returned from Vietnam and became the focal leader in the antiwar movement. The would-be senator was the articulate voice of the revolution. His slanderous words (presented with a pompous inflection) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 were swallowed up by the liberal birds in the press corps and were dropped on newspapers all across the land. His eloquent but dishonest speech became the rationale for the movement. He provided the case and sworn testimony that America was unjust and her soldiers, downright evil. It’s just too bad his testimony bore false witness against the honorable servicemen still fighting and imprisoned in Vietnam.
You could say the revolution Mr. Kerry led was built upon a foundation of sand; but more accurately, its foundation was one of betrayal, lies and deception.
Mr. Kerry’s strictly-guarded book, “The New Soldier,” published in 1971, contains the same rhetoric, insolence and betrayal of his country and fellow veterans (its original cover mocks the Iwo Jima flag raising scene with protesters raising an upside down American flag). There are many reasons for writing; but most authors write so others can read their work. Sen. Kerry is the only author I’ve ever heard of who doesn’t want you to read his book. If reprinted, it surely would become a best seller. Kerry, however, will not authorize its reprinting for the same reason he won’t release all of his military records – the truth about the candidate would produce a landslide victory for President Bush.
Even though the general public knows little about Sen. Kerry, enough is known to compel sensible Democrats to vote against him. Mr. Kerry was the president of the counter culture revolution which weakened and continues to weaken the nation. Let’s not ensure our country’s fall by making him president of the total culture.
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