The Generation Gap

It's time for another Martini, the True Cocktail, for a moment of truth.

And, once again, it goes to Pandagon.net. This time, it's for Amanda, who really nails it on the difference between the Greatest Generation and our Cowardly Generation:

Contrary to the heavy-handed war romanticism from the 101st Fightin' Keyboardists, the Greatest Generation Part Deux we are not. Mostly we are a nation of sniveling cowards who re-elected someone we knew for a fact to be a goddamned lying, money-grubbing piece of shit who only squeaked by with serious fear-mongering. And he did so because he's a coward himself, afraid to follow in FDR's footsteps and tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself because he knew that kind of courage doesn't win you elections. Not when you're a smirking frat boy with nothing to back it up. ...

The Greatest Generation knew that a war effort this massive would require effort from everyone and with that end in mind, they intergrated women into the military for the first time with the WAC and while black Americans were still serving in segregated units, the contributions of both blacks and women during WWII set the stage for rebellions that came later and society progressed. The Cowardly Generation thinks the best way to win a war is to exclude gays and women from military duty as much as you can while rolling back social reforms at home.

The Greatest Generation rationed sugar, coffee, fabrics and mostly oil for the war effort. The Cowardly Generation decided that the best way to show support was to purchase massive SUVs that looked manly while increasing our dependence on the oil that got us into this shit to begin with.

The Greatest Generation fought because they had to, and they fought invading armies with long, long track records of aggression. The Cowardly Generation made up some bullshit about what a country that had nothing to do with attacks on us might do in the future possibly if what we know to be true could concievably be true according to some outdated information and used that as an excuse to divert military resources into an attack on a country that didn't attack us. ...