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ORIGINAL: MercTech I ran across some old film clips from 1960 that got me thinking "this guy would be screamed at for being a fascist if he said those things today." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIkZK-Z21Pw I watched the video clip from start to finish and for the life of me, cannot understand what possessed you to think that Kennedy's words would attract the criticism you seem to feel they would attract today. Perhaps you could point out precisely the offending words so that we will all know what you are talking about ... Interestingly, as that clip ended, the next clip at that site came up automatically. It was also about Kennedy, this time about when Kennedy used the National Guard to ensure a black student would be allowed entry and to study at a deep South university against the implacable opposition of local racists including the Governor. I was struck by the difference between Kennedy's principled, uncompromising stand against the racists of his day, and Trump's reaction to the events at Charlottesville, and his latest bout of race baiting over NFL players demonstrating against racism. If you have any doubts about whether Trump is a racist or not, check the clip out and see how a non-racist President upholds the dignity of his office and the law of the land when dealing with issues of race in an progressive fashion. That's what real Presidents used to look and sound like. That's the difference between a genuine, enlightened leader and a self aggrandising narrow minded bigot. For the moment, just forget whatever Kennedy was talking about, forget the subject. It is disheartening that our country, our US media in particular, just has no interest in anybody like this, who can speak in this way, and hasn't for decades. Quit saying (as I am saying to all) that the US is not capable of this. So just listen here . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMbmdFOvTs We don't have that anymore, because the press don't like anybody who out thinks them at every turn, as the press get dumber by the day. The media were instant Reagan lapdogs because they immediately latched on to Reagan's mantra that if you limit vocabulary, you can speak with great conviction. Not that he was the first to figure that out.
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