Robbert Hubbell suggests paying attention to the extraordinary issues....

[rgbecker]

not high gas prices and inflation.

" Anyone who fails to see that this moment is unlike any in the last hundred years must look up from their smartphone and spreadsheets to engage in a few moments of reflection. The January 6th hearings are extraordinary. The ruling in Dobbs is extraordinary. The confluence of the “concealed carry” ruling in Bruen with mass killings in Buffalo, Uvalde, and Highland Park is extraordinary. The dissolution of the separation of church and state in Bremerton is extraordinary. The effort of GOP legislators to turn women into fugitives is extraordinary.

Any journalist who ignores those facts to write a story that views the midterms through the lens of gas prices and Joe Biden’s favorability ratings is incurious, lazy, and in the wrong profession. We are living in a moment like no other in the last century. Journalists ignore that truth at their peril."

Oh, and the secret service apparently played a role in the Jan 6th insurrection.

[link:https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/corrected-echoes-of-a-shameful-legacy|

[delisen]

1. Robert Hubbell gives the Proper Framing. We are beyond Politics as Usual nt

[FreepFryer]

2. and not transbaiting. (nt)

[Hugin]

3. Pretty well sums up my opinion on the matter. n/t

[BSdetect]

4. k&r

[MiHale]

5. KnR

[Haggard Celine]

6. My parents and I were having this conversation a couple weeks ago.

My dad keeps saying that the 60s were a lot worse than now. I was born in 1969, so of course I have no memory of the 60s, but from what I've read and heard, these times we're in now are at least as bad. At least the economy was good back then.

We have such widespread discontent these days due to a host of issues and we have certain people who are intent on making it worse in order to profit from our division. We don't have a Vietnam War, so I guess we can be grateful for that, but things are pretty bad these days, and it looks like it's going to get worse.

Some people think that things can't get worse than they were in the 60s, but looking at all of history, we see how empires have fallen and wars and famines have happened as well as pandemics. It can get a hell of a lot worse, and it just might. We're not promised anything when we're born.

[Novara]

7. I was a kid in the 60s

People need to remember the FEAR. Leaders were getting assasinated, cities were burning, anti-war protests were destroying families. There was a giant rift between the generations. It was bad.

But it was different.

The issues we're facing now are only similar in the sense that these are issues that this country hasn't faced before. In the 60s, the assassinations of so many in a short time was unprecedented, the riots spreading in the late 60s were unprecedented. The country had never been through that much tumult at once since its founding.

Once again, we are facing issues this country has never faced. But this time our system of democracy itself is under threat.

In the 60s, it was a social breakdown, not a political one. Now, it's both and we're on the brink of watching the very foundation of our country - democracy - get destroyed piece by piece by a sore loser former "president," by a radically theocratic and illegitimate SCOTUS, by a group of lawmakers who believe fantasy conspiracy theories and are using such to destroy democracy itself. We've never had so many people and lawmakers attempt to throw out the results of an election. We are additionally faced with the threat of political violence in the streets and mass murder in every public space we find ourselves in.

Yeah, I think our current issues are worse than the 60s.

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Excellent summary....

I was a kid in the 60s, too, and I concur with your thoughtful assessment.

[Novara]

13. Thanks. I would encourage people to read up on the 60s

It was a scary time but for different reasons. And it's always good to learn our history.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

8. I was born in 1951.

This is way worse than the Sixties, and I was there. Although it was a rough time, we still had two legitimate parties and a functioning government.

[pazzyanne]

12. Totally agree!!!

I was born in 1943. My college years were from '61 to '65. Lots of discussions and paper assignments about what was happening. We had assassinations, but we didn't have people carrying and using weapons of war all over our nation. We did not have a mob boss in the White House, or the Capitol attacked by terrorists to interupt the passage of political power from one party to another. We didn't have 30% to 40% of our population in a political cult. This is far worse imho.

[Unwind Your Mind]

9. Kick

For this especially:

‘Any journalist who ignores those facts to write a story that views the midterms through the lens of gas prices and Joe Biden’s favorability ratings is incurious, lazy, and in the wrong profession"

[Martin Eden]

10. Absolutely spot on!!!

Irresponsible major media called to the carpet!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. The radicalized Republican party wants total control. Democracy is in the way.

The Subversive 6 may hand it to them as an October surprise.