Perhaps you've missed all the pro-military and pro-US events and rallies that have been going on the past few yrs. I can see how since the news media never covers them. That's why they were so shocked and awed when more than 62 MILLION(more than had ever showed up before)releected their archnemesis George Walker Bush to 4 more years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The looks on Dan Rather's and Chris Matthews' faces were beyond value.
The lack of pride also stems from the "pop culture" to use a broad term. Holloywood maintains this Marines=SS dichotomy. In the yrs 1941-1945 Hollywood produced over 1000 pro US, pro military films. Directors like Frank Capra and John Ford put their talents to use with things liek "Why We Fight" and other inspiring works. We had artists like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and the Andrews Sisters that roused the populace and filled them with feeling and patriotism. There were countless events and war related activities to involve the public.
Today? Holloywood's produced 0 positive films about 9/11 or Terrorism or Iraq.(I don't count the measley few that are in production-ALL of which are from an anti-US slant) Our Directors like Michael Moore and George Clooney actually put out films that serve to DAMPEN and SAP morale, not boost it. (If it was up to me Moore would have been arrested on charges of Treason, surely he qualified under any fair construction of the Constitution). Capra must be spinning in his grave. Ford weeping to see how guys like Clooney and Moore have perverted a fine institution.
Our music stars like Eminem and Green Day are the exact opposite of the stars of the 40's. Did Frank Sinatra come out in a wheelchair and a pipe and a pig mask and play 2 hours of songs that compared FDR to Hitler and made him out to be an imbecile? Did the Andrews Sisters say they were ashamed to be Americans and pose on the cover of Look magazine with "FDR for Oil and Greed" shirts?
The nation as a whole was much more cohesive, much more unified in the war effort. Do you think something like the Smith Act could be passed today? Do you think FDR would get away with 3000+ dead on D Day today? The Howard Dean's and Jack Murtha's would have out calling for him to "bring the boys home". It's a good thing Murtha wasn't around when we were on Guadalcanal or Iwo Jima, he'd have had us out of there by sun up. He'd surely have called for Eisenhower's cashiering after the Huertgen forest campaign in the fall of 1944.
The bottom line is that the nation as a whole just hasn't rallied to the caus elike we used to. That's partly the WH's fault. But it's more the fault of a media/pop culture/and leftist/liberal mindset that ever since about 1968 has continued to portray the US as the source of all evils in the world and our leaders as no better than the Mao's and Stalin's of thsi world. When the people have been filled with so much anti US and anti military propoganda all these years, it's no surprise that we're having the results we are.
The lack of pride also stems from the "pop culture" to use a broad term. Holloywood maintains this Marines=SS dichotomy. In the yrs 1941-1945 Hollywood produced over 1000 pro US, pro military films. Directors like Frank Capra and John Ford put their talents to use with things liek "Why We Fight" and other inspiring works. We had artists like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and the Andrews Sisters that roused the populace and filled them with feeling and patriotism. There were countless events and war related activities to involve the public.
Today? Holloywood's produced 0 positive films about 9/11 or Terrorism or Iraq.(I don't count the measley few that are in production-ALL of which are from an anti-US slant) Our Directors like Michael Moore and George Clooney actually put out films that serve to DAMPEN and SAP morale, not boost it. (If it was up to me Moore would have been arrested on charges of Treason, surely he qualified under any fair construction of the Constitution). Capra must be spinning in his grave. Ford weeping to see how guys like Clooney and Moore have perverted a fine institution.
Our music stars like Eminem and Green Day are the exact opposite of the stars of the 40's. Did Frank Sinatra come out in a wheelchair and a pipe and a pig mask and play 2 hours of songs that compared FDR to Hitler and made him out to be an imbecile? Did the Andrews Sisters say they were ashamed to be Americans and pose on the cover of Look magazine with "FDR for Oil and Greed" shirts?
The nation as a whole was much more cohesive, much more unified in the war effort. Do you think something like the Smith Act could be passed today? Do you think FDR would get away with 3000+ dead on D Day today? The Howard Dean's and Jack Murtha's would have out calling for him to "bring the boys home". It's a good thing Murtha wasn't around when we were on Guadalcanal or Iwo Jima, he'd have had us out of there by sun up. He'd surely have called for Eisenhower's cashiering after the Huertgen forest campaign in the fall of 1944.
The bottom line is that the nation as a whole just hasn't rallied to the caus elike we used to. That's partly the WH's fault. But it's more the fault of a media/pop culture/and leftist/liberal mindset that ever since about 1968 has continued to portray the US as the source of all evils in the world and our leaders as no better than the Mao's and Stalin's of thsi world. When the people have been filled with so much anti US and anti military propoganda all these years, it's no surprise that we're having the results we are.
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