1970 Watch America's "Silent Majority" Speak Out. How They REALLY Felt. 

That's on purpose. Those at the top of the pyramid benefit from the way our society is structured and how our institutions function. They have no intention of letting the anger and frustration of the "little people" get in the way.

Quite a bit has changed, it's just what you're seeing here, is the general ignorance and frustration of the average US citizen, which, yes sounds the same today as it did 50 years ago. Oh yeah and the model of the MIC dictating our foreign policy while puppet politicians try to sell some kind of trickle down myth concept, that's pretty intact as well. Meanwhile, most other aspects of our society have have been turned on their head, and that whole model I just described, it was brand new at that time, Eisenhower warned that it was going to happen, and after an extremely turbulent decade, when this film was made it had just locked into place, now it's chugging along. As I always say, if you want to be less like the people in this movie and more like the 1%, save your money and BUY DEFENSE!!!

@@1846tt Since when is stockpiling weaponry a path towards peace?

@@AsWellYouShould I was speaking in terms of government manipulating us into useless wars and lying to us about the reasoning. In other words I was speaking in regard to the exact topic of the video. Look below. I guarantee you you will see very many people making similar comments to mine that nothing has changed. It seems other people understand that when you make a comment you're usually talking about the specific topic of the video. Not sure why you're going off on a tangent about obesity and depression... but hey whatever floats your boat

We are so powerless, what can we do??? Well STOP CONSUMING SHIT YOU DON'T NEED . This is how bureaucracy is feed

These people seem so much more thoughtful than their contemporary counterparts, though.

@@paulstacey7814 Exactly. People can have a conversation and disagree respectfully and not resort to name calling or shouting each other down.

unfortunately there will always be ignorant people who haven’t learned from history or the past. we just have to always remember to be kind to people we disagree with and challenge their way of thinking in a friendly way

@@paulstacey7814 the nuclear family used to be better.

Politics today are just rehashings of debates had in the 80’s about issues of the 70’s

yeah, it reminded me of the opening sequence of Ironman 1 where tony gets the shrapnel in his chest from his own bomb. But its more interesting hearing about that scenario from someone who actually lived it way back then. Really highlights how art imitates life.

Looks like we never got out of feudalism, 😬😅

They bowed to the will of the people ....the steel people...the oil people the mining people...the farm people....the factory people....

Facts. It's the same way in the Communist countries

@@americo9999 it’s the same game, with a different name. It’s not the “Republicans vs Democrats”. It’s the “Rich vs The Poor”, “The Have’s vs the have-nots.” Republicans have their base convinced they’re part of “The Have’s” and that they have to defend their country against the “have-nots” who are taking all their jobs away! Democracy literally means ruled by the masses. When the masses are poor, you have “Ruled by the Poor” Im not anti-Democrat and I’m not anti-rich but I think we need a balance. The United States cannot be solely for the rich people. We’ve tried it their way with “trickle down economics” It’s time to grow this country from the bottom up.

According to a quote from the leader of the free world We are the people, the government, we are the people.

It does seem that way very often my parents are both veterans and I was raised a certain way. When my son wanted to join the Army it threw me hard. I see what war does to people who come home. And what the government doesn't do. Very confused about it all. Edit: I am not commenting on consumerism, I will support my son who is a man and can make his own decision, and I can see both sides of this issue clearly. Also I'm American and I can say anything I want.

The flags were made in china

@@trentdawg2832 Not back then. They were made in the USA in US factories. Back then we got lots of inexpensive things from Japan mostly household items and pocket size transistor radios about the size of a pack of cigarettes. They were good products not cheap junk like we get from China.

@@annarodriguez9868 I was joking. ....I don't think our government would really ashame your boys like that. ...ffwd to today, I'm not so sure!!

And it all funds the manufacturing industry they were probably making the flags in southeast Asia for all we know

It’s sad that it takes that much violence, trauma and bloodshed to make one question which way up is. I never went to war, I could see from a young age it was a stupid endeavor waged by the rich, fought and paid for by the poor. Why is that soooo hard for people to see? The propaganda is so obvious! Doesn’t take a genius to see a con.

@@baizhanghuaihai2298 shut up

@@Lachausis make me

It's definitely a rude awakening joining the military and getting out, realizing military time served was just part in contributing to the war machine that controls the world entire for those in power to benefit. Sure, there is benefits for those that served, but not to much especially when those that are homeless. Sometimes those that benefited more try to justify that veterans that didn't aren't smart enough to take advantage of their benefits. That culture of "winners and losers", compared to those with or without power, also plagues our military service community unfortunately. Too many times I've seen veterans being nice only those who are well off, but not those sitting in the streets struggling. Anyways, I'm rambling a bit here.

I joined the Army the same year. Ever since coming home from 2 deployments I feel the same you do. Unforturnalty it's impossible to go back to sleep. Sometimes I wish I could.

The question is WHO benefits from things staying the same?

Same thoughts. Follow the money.

@@divergentsenior The Billionaire Class.

The more things change....

Stuff has changed, but for the worse.

The problem is that both sides are fed radically different ways to fix the major issues, maybe that is done on purpose as well.

🎯

If people talked to each other about these issues, many of us would realize we're not that different after all. This polarization has made us hate each other. This is what dooms us.

Just a bunch of hippies blaming corporations for everything, while they benefit from the corporations paying the majority of all the taxes.

@@logic7374 It wasn’t the corporations going to fight the war and dying in a jungle.

and what does thathave to do with anything.

people still do this in person you just think reality is social media apparently

@@waynerenolds3955 you're right

It's nice to see. We're all just people. Cold war was a damn hard war to win.

J.C. pointless too

Ironically no empathy for black people in America even to this day

At the end of WW2 we supported the Vietnamese. We helped them start their government. France wanted it back and told us if we got in the way they would join Russia at the start of the cold war. We went from saving Ho Chi Minh's life to bombing him.

@@MrMarkRoads Didn’t Ho send a letter to Truman(?) requesting help in return for support of US and it never reached his desk? A missed opportunity….

Yes at least 6 feet apart.

If he really felt that way, he and the rest of the Silent Majority have sided with the civil rights and anti-war demonstrators. They valued "tradition" and "decorum" more than reform in the US.

Rightly said....100% true

Yeah well we tried that on J6 and nothing changed. Sure did freak them out at the very least. But it's going to take WAY more than that.

PREACH!

Maybe he couldn't find people to have conversation and eye contact with

Hello BishopLake, Id like to ask you about some details about how Nam affected your friends father, physical and mental long term effects for a book Im writing, would you drop me a line? If I hear back I will give you my contact info- thank you in advance

A lot of Liz Chaney's who want other people's sons to go a fight some dumb ideology

I have no doubt that you made a world of difference for the man. He likely shared things with you that he felt he couldn't share with anyone else. My husband's uncle was a Vietnam vet, and it haunted him, too. He passed away some time ago, now, so hopefully he's finally at peace. I know it would have helped him to have someone to confide in, too. You did a good thing for your friend's father.

Nothing has really changed. USA creating a situation for a war. Who profits big business. Not the common people.

Wow, that must have been bizarre to step into this time capsule.

There's a reason your Generation is known as the *Great* one

@@KaoticReach1999 She would actually be a Baby Boomer if she's 73. The 'Greatest' generation fought in WWII. They're in their 90s and up.

Yep

Your truth is a huge breath of FRESH AIR

I feel ya. Same here! Born and raised the same years as well.

I'm with you being born in 73. Where did people and value go

I totally agree. People back then, that generation of mostly middle-aged, middle-class folks did not have the Aire of self-importance and aggrandizement. They were not presumptuous but quite fair and reasonable in their approach to people around them and concerning issues in the World at large. They had more intelligence then than average middle-aged middle class schmoe today.

@@rainmancw9022 born in 73 also, and people, especially those who claimed they earned every penny in life are the most immoral lot. I remember when as a child the elderly were much more nice and caring and genuine. I feel sorry for todays young kids.

True words👍. 1971 Southside Chicago Auburn Gresham raised. The entire neighborhood was connected in some way. My entire block was independent small business people. Independent t.v. repairman,locksmith,tailors,mechanics,mostly all service men. Segregated Chicago was very organized believe it or not. We fought in the streets but they are reasonable in this video. Shout out to the G.A.Y. oh Chicago 🙏✌

You can still have some good conversation at bars, coffee shops, bookstores, etc. As the pandemic winds down we’ll have even more of this… folks are hungry for it.

Enabled by Fascistbook.

Yeah but that guy said not having enough food turned you into a communist

@@rellman85 Good point It's just that we're on a hairpin trigger these days

And most of them have absolutely no idea what either word means

It's the Oppressed & the Oppressors, Welcome to the Society of the Spectacle. We the People must unite if we want to free ourselves.

Good job teach👍

You idiots keep voting for the same idiots every generation, so nothing has change. I watch the “majority” vote 3x for Bush War policy politicians, finally Obama got elected and the “majority” attacked and mocked him

The magic of the “Silent Majority” in current vernacular is that they are neither of those things. It’s now a cliché appended to arguments by people with crap positions.

@@Jiidwag You saw the last "election", and you still think voting is gonna change anything. We aren't voting our way out of this bullshit, that should be obvious.

@@Surfwtw There are some people in this video that come off as probably racist and supremacist. The silent majority who Nixon spoke of were pro-war and against the counter culture.

Yes, it was nice to hear.

@Theodoric Vand I agree. White people of the past did what litterally every other people of the past did. Technology just allowed them to do it a little easier I think. But prejudice and ignorance is a human trait. Or maybe I should say it is a trait that comes from tribalism.

@Stephanie Windler No it absolutely is the medias fault. It's called sensationalism and they are legally aloud to portray events in whatever version they want to. Basically, If the event did happen, they can use the material to project the news, but it comes from their own perception of the events, not what actually happened, constantly breaching impartiality rules. Think about it this way, if the news REALLY wanted to report events, why do they have to commentary it and explain it to you, are you not a thinking creature and are you unable to formulate your own opinions on the matter? Why do they feel the need to explain events ,AS THEY SEE IT, and shove it in your face as "fact" when, it's literally an opinion. Stop thinking of the News medias as your friends, they want your viewership in anyway possible and the fact of the matter is, in current society with many many independent journalism on the internet, people are starting to look away from traditional news. But also, make no mistake, they are a part of the government entity, because the government also relies on them to convey their own messages as well as to "prove" what they are doing to handle the situations. There is no transparency, most of our heaviest news outlets arnt even subjected to the law set by FCC for distribution of false regulations, because they broadcast on free and public platforms and it would infringe on the 1st amendment right. "Fox News (as well as CNN and MSNBC) is not an accredited news station because no regulatory body exists in the United States that has the authority to make such a classification." Man....just fucking watch "Sugar" by SOAD, pretty much sums it up in a pretty simple way. The absolute one thing I truly admire about Trump was, hate him or love him, he was the first president to actively engage with the people on a whole new platform, that has never been done before. Instead of a speech made for him to say Infront of the press, he said it himself on social networks. That takes balls to speak your mind, especially being in a leader position to a country, and saying it to your face. Whether you like what he had to say is a different matter.

@Stephanie Windler idk what country you live in but I can tell you as a non American 🇺🇸 citizen the whole world does pretty much think the US is a bunch of racist selfish jerks… HOWEVER.. I think most blame & believe that about the US government, not the people It can be ok to play the victim, when you actually are a victim A VICTIM OF THE U.S SATANICAL GOVERNMENT AAAAAAAHHHHHH 🤪😵‍💫 😹 jk sorry guys my husband listens to way too much crazy right wing propaganda 👀😅 (& we don’t even live in the U.S 😐🤦🏼‍♀️😶🤦🏼‍♀️) if I don’t joke about it I might go insane 😳🔫🙈🙈🙈

So true

Instead of cable channels it was newspapers and magazines.

These people were educated properly.

Even the most staunch conservatives back then would NEVER have embraced Qanon. Alex Jones would have been a doorknob salesman in this world.

@@mikuspalmis The draft was implemented during the Vietnam War, men had no choice , it's why draft dodging became a thing. People did all kinds of things to get out of being sent to war, some ran to Canada others faked mental illness, my uncle knew a guy that got drunk and threw himself into traffic to break as many bones as possible so he couldn't go. Luckily, my family has a hereditary blood disease and my dad couldn't be sent, I may have never been born.

Bush: lots of MSM and public war criticism Obama: no MSM and public war criticism Trump: no MSM and public war criticism Biden: no MSM or public war criticism

Kinda a big issue at the moment it seems.

A frighteningly deep insight.

To be fair, all Middle East wars combined didn’t compare to the horrors of Vietnam and Korea. Those wars left our service members broken forever.

@@brazenlancer9484 the middle east wars left it broken instead. Iraq, Syria, Libya are all still a mess today. But I do agree that the guy said "east" not middle east. I don't think he was talking about the middle east back there.

@@brazenlancer9484 they don’t compare when you consider the only victims to be our soldiers. Go ask the people in the Middle East if they got it easy.

This guy predicted it! On good ol' Technicolor on 16mm in a barber shop. I'd let the barber shops run the country sooner then some dang cronies.

Thank you for what you have said, James

We can't dialogue like that anymore because we know too much.

“We have to respect each other opinion” This quote really said a lot to me personally because the mindset was let’s come to an agreement and be able to work together. I don’t mean to sound dramatic, but the average fellow college student I meet is not interested in finding an agreement or working together. Ideas are being viewed more as morally correct or morally wrong. The goal is often to dominate a space and show how “correct” an idea is

I can have conversations like this. There are still some civil, politically interested people in the USA.

@@Catlily5 definitely agree! Just widespread polarization makes it harder to start the conversation Glad to hear others are interested in dialogue 🙏🏼

@@Catlily5 I've been a part of lots of conversations like these, with young people.

Thank you for your service and thoughtful comment.

The face value metric of war is always the intended result of war regardless of what the narrative of the day is. But fear not, Increasingly as a method to reduce the male population as well as to ensure the consumption, rather then the accumulation of wealth war cannot be directly used towards this end. I has become dangerouseven to those who wage it... It was a comfortable, large group of free men That created the western world and America. Controlling the pitch, pace and temperament of generations? For over 10 thousand years (yes even in prehistory) the fate of the world was in the hands of a tiny crust of dominant families. Now for the past 500 years the projection of force gave rise to "live and let live." This is what is not allowed to persist.

The gov't is into population control. But they are learning war is expensive and messy. So now they are killing people with lock downs and shots. Using Big Pharma to pull off mass genocide via bioweapons. They also poison our air, food and water. They are nice enough to give most Hospice Care a few months before death.

Sometimes we make mistakes on going to war. Best to just avoid it as much as possible.

We are never going to learn so long as people in power see those not in power as dispensable. We live in a corrupt world...corrupted by human wickedness.

I agree somthing changed. I beleive a cancer called fox has removed brain cells!

Robert i think it's really both sides of the media at fault. Both of them try to divide us all and hate each other rather than being respectful and open mineded

@@robertl.fallin7062 Lol, fox may be terrible, but it's way better than CNN and MSNBC.

@@Dakotako the people being interviewed are aware of being divided in an effort to prevent an overwhelming majority consensus. As so many before have said “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” 😞

@@Dakotako Fox is terrible and no they aren't better. They actively let their anchors lie about what's going on so they can keep us scared and fighting between ourselves. They take orders from Trump and he and the GQP are dangerous to America.

@@TheHardys01 I didn't make any comment on whether what they believed was right or wrong. You projected that onto me. That's on you. I simply said they had a more decent way of dealing with one another. And while we are on it, YOU are the one who took one outlier and tried to make it seem as if everyone thought how she thought. The overwhelming majority clearly said that the war was wrong and didn't serve the people. Work on your listening skills

@@TheHardys01 once again...you only focused on one woman's comment. I listen to ALL the words. People in general were questioning authority and the story they were being told about the war. Proving that the president was wrong about the silent majority supporting the Vietnam war. They spoke up and out against the official story. That's admirable and worthy of praise. Also your comment is a logical fallacy. It is possible to praise the way a message is delivered without focusing on the content. Your "all or nothing" approach reveals a shocking inability to seperate the message from the messanger.

@@TheHardys01 Vietnam and China were historical enemies. Ho Chi Minh would have been an ally of the US.

@@TheHardys01 that was not said at all. You're looking to be angry. If THATS what you took away from listening to all the voices here then heaven help you. I very clearly heard many of the interviewees saying that people in Vietnam were owed self determination and respect even if they wanted something different than Americans. That they were entitled to the own government and their own ways of living. If all you heard and focused on was one voice and decided to paint everyone with the same brush than perhaps you need to reflect on your mindset

@@TheHardys01 sure tell yourself whatever you like

@ Ryan The rich do not fight since manipulating the poor and men with a low IQ has been spectacularly successfull . McNamara was not a pioneer! [MacNamar was Sect. of Defense during the Vietnam war. His IQ cutoff was 81, Many draftees had trouble doing basic task]

Yeah and Woody Guthrie was an isolationist until Nazi Germany broke the nonaggression pact with the communists and invaded the Soviet Union, then he wanted us in the war in Europe. Commie stooge, him and Pete Seeger both.

I wish they would

There's a whole lotta rich folk SAY, they wanna fight, til you OFFER them a gun. Then they get all intellectual and reason the fighting away. Js

Comrade Guthrie, the Antifa OG

Fair enough

1970: The Government 2021: The Corporation of The Government

@@James-gk8ip Are you brain-dead or brainwashed? Both? A huge swath of this country is fed up with the government and the number is growing. They are absolutely not the "only entity" that can provide those things either. We are vastly advanced technologically compared to the 70s and there are infinitely more innovative ways to provide those things better than a corrupt, self-serving government. Open your eyes...

@@JS-bu5oj Those other entities can(debatable) provide those life or death things for an exorbitant fee. Look at big pharma. I don't trust corporations to give me clean air. Open your eyes. I grow tired of your type pretending that a decades long process of 'innovation' (paid for by the taxpayer btw, these innovations happen at universities) to make products inexpensive is a good selling point for a society without government. Did you see the lack of ppe equipment manufactured at the start of the pandemic? Have you observed the vulnerability of global supply lines? We need a representative, centralized institution to address the problems and grievances of society.

@@rsync9490 Just say you have no idea what you're talking about. It's a lot faster than that novel-length reply that ignores endless examples that prove your entire assertion to be nonsensical drivel.

Thank you Pasi. David Hoffman

I’ve been to Saigon 4 times,it’s like NY on steroids! But I love it..need to get back if they ever start issuing Visas again!Im sure the local businesses are suffering without tourists..at least some are

By the looks of that lady of yours, I see why you're there. 😉

@@jc.1191 haha, exactly. You're right on the money! Coming up on a decade soon. Funny how life takes you places. Take care! :)

@@VNExperience congrats man ❤️.

and doom in general, it's a bad idea to focus solely on the military in a society

Kind of an arrogant statement from a man who was a known communist and was conspiring with communist leaders around the globe to foment a color revolution in the United States. That's exactly the kind of thing our military is supposed to protected us from.

Very true. In Australia.

@Bill Sbac but ironically keeping the rich rich in america keeps the poor richer in the long run. If in the 70s there was a revolution we would be like mexico.

My thoughts exactly. You are brilliant.

@@aurtherbrunt241 it's like basic drawback to living in the english speaking world. Every person I've met from Australia, UK, New Zealand everyone is always so sure how their country is the best out of them all when we're around each other. (my experience stems from multiple trips to Thailand) . . Edit: one thing we can all agree on though, Canada is at the bottom of the old commonwealth totem pole

@@patjohn775 surely you're not trying to elude to "trickle down economics" (shakes head in true disappointment)? Are you? Because that does not work, nor has it ever worked the rich don't "trickle down" they reinvest, as anyone should when they gain the means.

I’m very sorry for your loss ❤️

My cousin only made it to 1975. He was 26.

Thirty years later you have Donald Rumsfeld talking about trillions of dollars not accounted for in the pentagon on sept 10th 2001. Think about how much just 100 billion could do for poverty.

@@russellharrell2747 It would eradicate it.

@itserich unesco

@@GallowayJesse meritocracy is murder. The little beleevees of the haves informs the deservees of the have-nots. At over 2 acres per person on earth yup it is a choice of getting disenherited at birth by the haves.

@@dzxn3728 seems to murder less people than communism.

The same

The fear you heard in her voice. I wonder how many she lost after it was all said and done.

@J Breeze How can you say she did LSD? Not everybody did drugs like people like to think. I was about her age then and several of my high school friends were in Vietnam including my husband. One of them died over there and his name is on the wall of the Vietnam memorial. My husband came home safe, but he never talked about it and had nightmares for a long time. The only thing he said about Vietnam was that it was a beautiful place and it was ashame it was being destroyed. When the soldiers came home they would travel alone on commercial flights. They would be in uniform and they would be cursed and spit at as they were walking through the airport. They were soldiers that had served where they had been sent. They were not the enemy. They were not baby killers. They were not flag burners. They didn't burn their draft cards. They were called and they went. Some were seriously injured, but all of them survived a nightmare which followed them in their dreams. Over 50,000 never came home.

@@jimicmore1895 “I’ve already buried one friend.....”. Not son.

@Yasta Yildirim It is the voice of sadness and fear for others, not an afterglow. She's a young woman growing older and wiser sooner than expected. That was part of my generation not counting the ones who dropped out of society and tried to build their own world. Most of us weren't protesting in the streets or colleges. We had jobs and families and tried to make sense of the senseless.

He's observant. Crystal ball not needed.

The conflicts, some wars and instability began wayyy before 2001

Following the bloody breadcrumbs

Oil. When it comes to America and the West's involvement in the Middle East, it always boils down to oil interests.

The "Six Day War" had already occurred in 1967. The trouble in the Middle East had already begun.

Julia Hesselbrock watch Europa the last battle on bitchute eyeopening watch Barbara lector Spectra talk on the immigration of Europe and the Kalergi plan include that in your research

Careful not to fall down conspiratorial historical rabbit holes.

@@subs4794 aaaaand you just discredited yourself.

@@mariemiller8740 lol yeah that trash is nothing but nazi sympathizer bullshit. Fuck that

@@kristiskinner8542 How about let ppl come to their own conclusions based on the facts.

Because the same interests are running the show. Its a shame.

I beg to differ. The discourse back then, compared to now, was radically different. Positions were argued, yes, but with respect (for the most part). And the wisdom on display in this film - with a few exceptions - is seldom found today. The divide between right and left in the US, to these eyes (I’m not American), has never been greater. The Trumpists have destroyed all rational discourse.

It really is! How precious a gift it is- to be able to experience this.

I'm so happy I just got into crypto trading and I made my first profit, I wish I knew about crypto earlier I would have made a lot of money by now

@@jamalmckenzie5319 For real crypto is profitable Crypto is the new gold

50 years later different decade same situation

All war should be done at cost, no profit should be allowed.

At the end of the cold war there was the idea of the peace dividend based on the idea that there was no longer the big threat so no need to keep building up our armament That lasted about 30 seconds It scared the shit out of the military industrial complex Any excuse for continuing to build massive amounts of weaponry had to be found And we did

@@dionysusnow it's been a few years since I've read this book about WWI, one part discussed manufacturing and finding money for all the millions of tons of equipment you need. i think france, uk, and germany all had different ways of financing the war. point is i remember reading that war profiteering was a huge issue and it went through various changes as the war went on. but at least a few of the countries tried to prevent a massive war profits.

@@jc.1191 And how will we ever avoid one?

"The pain of war *CANNOT* exceed the woe of aftermath" --Led Zeppelin

Well said

Social media hasn't helped. Everyone just seeks out an echo chamber now.

@@firingallcylinders2949 Precisely.

@@firingallcylinders2949 like the echo chamber. Thankyou!

Yeah, if we all learned to respect and learn as much as possible, the world would be better than any heaven humans can conceive.

I feel the same way, so you are not alone in your opinion.

if you dont see it pause at exactly 4:00

Looks like a scammer to me. Judging his face and mannerisms he never saw any combat.

@@MrZarono You know nothing. Shame on you.

@@MrZarono Hey, I remember you....you're the guy who won the war!

He's trying not to show it. Just shoving it down. Must be tough.

Oh wow. That's the story for so many, isn't it?

Yes, my father too.

@@robingillespie4467 it's like you and my mom belong to a terrible club you never wanted to join. ❤

@@caroled3943 the real cost is heartbreaking.

@@crankyoldperson6871 after her brothers suicide my mother never talked about her brother with her parents ever again. No one did. Eventually the sisters all just told people their brother died from war injuries.

It's a lack of love of humanity. Most people say they "Hate people".

It’s still possible. I think people were just interacting with each more at that time.

The Russians killed 80 million of its own people who opposed communism through intentional famines, assassinations, and slave labor in the gulags.

@@Hudini12345 Right, Russia has really been through it.

Russian people have been through Hell and back. Russian history goes back to more that thousand years, we’ve been through many wars and genocide. The US is still a very young country..

@@vkrgfan the US is made up of people from nearly all the peoples of the world including Russians and believe it or not we can read history books and we do still talk about old times a lot of us fled Russia and Nazi Germany and Vietnam and all kinds of misery. People are still doing it today, our nation is young but our peoples are not.

Russia had their own Vietnam in Afghanistan

Exactly

Still working on it….

Same mindset been used during the colonial period. To justify invasions. Its unfortunate

that mindset is being used right now to justify censorship of information in the media by the state

True. But don't kid yourself that we are any less ignorant right in the here & now. Just different buzzwords, with agendas & narratives that sound like they are intelligent and virtueous. But they are just as false and corrupt. When will we ever learn..... 😢

Good observation 👍

Great interviews. I do suspect though that the interviewers unwillingly gravitated to more respectful and humble personalities when approaching people. Naturally these types of people would be more anti-war and less blindly obedient. Might have been plenty of obnoxious drum-beating people that gave brief angry incoherent interviews that wouldn’t have made the final cut

I was thinking the same. These people may be true centrists I guess.

A little too naive but I like the message

@@tajcee what might you add or remove to my statement, that removes the naivety you take issue with?

I think you make a damn good point. Unfortunately history isn't taught properly in schools anymore. You're essentially saying learn from the past so we don't make the same mistakes, that way we will build a better future.

@@douglasdixon524 yes, that is exactly what I meant 🙂 watching old episodes of Crossfire is cool, but the guests Buckley had on were also already established enough to have been invited on to argue broad concepts. These are regular people, passionately debating about the impacts something had/is having and what that looks / feels like on a more human level.

Damn

I bet there are so many parallels!

The war in Iraq isn’t that simple. I hope you didn’t leave out some things

Will your thesis be posted on the Internet? If so, please post the link/ how to find it. Thanks!

I would be delighted to read it!

@@Monkforilla what sort of things ?

Almost predicted the forever wars

Yep. The Middle East.

Exactly what I thought! So scary...

Because they are in person and being filmed. You can still find videos of modern people talking like them. It’s just not as fun, so it doesn’t get recomended

@@yucol5661 people today are far more judgemental. It's become acceptable to call someone a racist, xenophobic, etc etc, the moment you don't agree. People don't have social skills.

I really don’t think there is - there’s multiple points of view; but most people just want justice, peace, a job, and safe place to raise children.

the mixed views ones are " try before you buy" types of people.

I'll go a step further and say you'd have to go to a college campus. Even then you'd be there the better part of the day.

One thing he would never have said was “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” JFK knew he was the *head* of the government and he *was* here to help (or at least try to help).

Depends if he got stuck in it like LBJ.

We are considerably more divided today than 50 years ago. The "news" media of 2021 is political advocacy. And the rise of Identitarianism which has led to vicious tribalism.

These people had a coherent understanding of what was actually happening and how they were being manipulated. Things have definitely gone downhill since.

And so is the court system and the "healthcare" system.

@@thereisnosanctuary6184 Lo

I'd like to see a film of French citizens in the 1950's talking about the war in French Indochina. A little different because it was French territory, but I'd still like to know if they thought it was worth it or not to take it back after WWII.

I bet that's from national tv and radio broadcasts. I wonder what we'll sound like in a hundred years.

I know. I miss them Im from the Bronx and I still have my ny accent and Im proud of it

I think these were all interviews that a small film crew conducted in the Chicago District of Spiro Agnew? Or at least Spiro Agnew‘s congressional district, if I’m not remembering Chicago correctly (chosen due to his use of the “silent majority” tag to suggest that most Americans were in support of the war in 1970) …all those accents from people living in the same general area, But the upper Midwest has always had some great accents to be sure, ha ha … those particularly, I agree, have become much more homogeneous- east coast accents are amazing too, such distinct speech in practically every nook from Boston to Baltimore…

@@scottyj6226 Yes that has been a major cause of accent homogenization. Also schools intentionally educating children in specific accents as the 'correct' way to speak. That happens all over the world too though.

People used to mostly listen to TV and radio that was local and generally spent most of their time speaking to other people from their region who had lived in that region for generations. You didn't leave your state, and your regional accent was a part of yoour identity. Nowadays, globalised mass media has homogenised American accents.

Like all young ppl, you don't realise your elders were once exactly like you

The north committed their fair share of atrocities but in both vietnam and korea, the majority of atrocities were committed by the US backed side, or by US forces themselves

@@DmoneyS44 www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/un-north-korea-commits-unspeakable-atrocities/

@@narcocastillo3783 sure. But I mean, it is kind of hard to say the South was worse than the North though. And now look how they turned out.

@@narcocastillo3783 I doubt that. And yes. Of course they were bad, until they weren't lol. That's the point.

@@narcocastillo3783 and you are saying that North Korea is super transparent and has revealed all their skeletons to the world? I get that in certain circles it is hip to be anti US and anti the West in general. But let's not act like the communist side of the cold war wasn't worse.

Realistically, a good number of them would have passed away by now.

@@AGDinCA yeah. It’s sad.

Yes!

They were. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1FX7M7hplos.html

@@aeromodeller1 Epic find

Things have definitely changed. They've just changed for the worse.

This is what happens when war profiteers becomes so powerful that they can control the government to the point where they force the elected officials to go to war so they can charge the government more and more money for weapon sales.

@@madashell7224 Hi MadAsHell! Thanks for your cogent insight! I think too just because someone has an opposing view, I mean I was shouted down many times during the Vietnam War. Even the father of the host family I rented from while attending vocational school in a big city kicked me coldly out of their home, told me firmly "the sooner you leave the better", and all because I disagreed with the war in a very polite and diplomatic manner and was going to vote for George McGovern. We are oppressed and right about this "military industrial complex" and really we are people who care very much about our country if it only could not be our country is the reason for so much destruction in the world. The United Nations recently hired a survey company to ask internationally the question, "What country in the world do you feel is the greatest threat to world peace?" The huge majority said the USA. I also believe NATO should be dismantled, war machine international.

@@mwj5368Just curious... Who was president when that survey was out?

@@mwj5368 Nevermind. I looked it up. The survey has been done annually since 2018, and it was because of Trump. They literally said so. It also said it went up 14 pts when Biden took office, due to what they called The Biden Effect, so it got 14 pts better. I had a feeling that's what it was about.

That's because she's ignorant and wicked. If she had any regard for her fellow man, she would want them to enjoy the same freedoms she does.

This was just before propaganda took the place of free thinking minds who's understanding grew out of their experiences. Americans who had eyes in their head they looked out at the world . Pre tech.

Michelle Obama was castigated for that statement.