When history takes the long view back at this time, it will see Mr. Gingrich as the animating figure in the GOP's turn towards hate and deception. As always, we are responsible for what we create. In the story of Dr. Frankenstein, the monster destroys its creator. Mr. Gingrich is the chief mad-scientist of the monstrous energies destroying an American political party.
I agree. Gingrich the Craven started bending the arc of this political party toward the cancerous core that now appears to be its platform. Everyone remember Pat Buchanan’s speech on the so-called Culture War in ‘92? As Molly Irvins said, it sounded better in the original German (sorry Germans). Oooh, that gives me an idea...anyway, I’d throw Pat onto the pyre, as well. Newt blew the flute, and the rats fell in line. Ooooh! Another idea. Thanks, Melina.
I've been reading The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson. I have to stop from time to time and read something else to clear my brain. The hate and abuse that white people heaped onto their neighbors was unrelenting. (Still is, but now it takes 21st-century forms like voter suppression and redlining and for-profit prisons.)
Thanks for more Missouri history. OT, but my wife is a graduate of Cottey College. My great-grandfather had a farm in Western Missouri in the 1930s. He adopted my father when my father's mother died a few days after having him in the 1918 flu pandemic. My father was raised by Edna, the AA housekeeper. She had to move to Texas to care for her mother when my Dad was a teenager, he missed her terribly. My GGF sent her money every month for the rest of her life.
When history takes the long view back at this time, it will see Mr. Gingrich as the animating figure in the GOP's turn towards hate and deception. As always, we are responsible for what we create. In the story of Dr. Frankenstein, the monster destroys its creator. Mr. Gingrich is the chief mad-scientist of the monstrous energies destroying an American political party.
I agree. Gingrich the Craven started bending the arc of this political party toward the cancerous core that now appears to be its platform. Everyone remember Pat Buchanan’s speech on the so-called Culture War in ‘92? As Molly Irvins said, it sounded better in the original German (sorry Germans). Oooh, that gives me an idea...anyway, I’d throw Pat onto the pyre, as well. Newt blew the flute, and the rats fell in line. Ooooh! Another idea. Thanks, Melina.
I've been reading The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson. I have to stop from time to time and read something else to clear my brain. The hate and abuse that white people heaped onto their neighbors was unrelenting. (Still is, but now it takes 21st-century forms like voter suppression and redlining and for-profit prisons.)
That is such a painful and eye-opening book. I felt the same way about that book, and the book I mentioned here. What do we do now to undo all that?
Thanks for more Missouri history. OT, but my wife is a graduate of Cottey College. My great-grandfather had a farm in Western Missouri in the 1930s. He adopted my father when my father's mother died a few days after having him in the 1918 flu pandemic. My father was raised by Edna, the AA housekeeper. She had to move to Texas to care for her mother when my Dad was a teenager, he missed her terribly. My GGF sent her money every month for the rest of her life.
Missouri is never off topic. I know Cottey and what a beautiful piece of family history.