Whoa!

Before the haters start hating, I a) was and am a huge supporter of Ronald Reagan and b) know first hand what a terrible disease Alzheimer's is. My Grandmother had it. Also, they say that it can possibly be genetic, and at my age every time I forget something I feel like "Well, here comes the big A".

But, I found these facts in the top of the meme while looking up something about "The Matrix" and couldn't pass it up as a meme. Was it all a coincidence or did the write the script that way?

Hollywood has never shied away from taking a dig here and there, especially at conservatives, no matter how subtle.

Unfortunately. . It's stylish. . Hip.. trendy.. to dig at conservatives. True.... dat!

Has been since the Nixon days, even though it was Kennedy and Johnson who began/escalated Viet Nam, somehow it became all Nixon's fault. Conservatives have been beat up by the elitists ever since.

It's more prolific now with internet and social media. Change in 2016 will be a challenge.

It will be interesting, especially if Trump pulls out what I still believe would prove to be a miracle. I think once the primaries start, people will actually get serious.

It will be interesting!

Dang John, I feel like I could have written that (about JFK & LBJ). It has always puzzled me how Nixon took the heat for Nam.

Serious revisionist history. The same way its omitted now that Saddam invaded, raped pillaged and plundered in Kuwait, refused to live up to UN inspections as he promised to do and played musical trucks to at the very least make the world think he had large stashes of weapons. Half a million gassed/dead Kurd's families also wanted to see him gone. Yet the Dems could toss out a stupid phrase like "blood for oil" and 20 years of history just disappears,

Spot on once again!

I'm a history buff and have been a news junkie since Iran-Contra, I hate seeing the revisionist shit that passes for truth.

This is my deep (or twisted, depending on your point of view) philosophy...America has a) always been afraid of a "sneak attack" b) always has to have a "boogie man" and c) loves a good conspiracy (good being a subjective term)

A. Going back to the Spanish American war, there was the Maine bombed in Cuba, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin, and 9/11. All sneak attacks that got us into wars. Could be other examples, feel free to help me out. The real irony is, as you said, that Bush invaded Iraq to PREVENT another sneak attack. All intel, not only from the U.S. administration, but from foreign governments and with the backing of such Congressional leaders as Hillary Clinton indicated that it was time to call Saddam's bluff and remove the threat.

B. You've got to have a boogie man that you're either in a cold or hot war with. Too many examples here, fairly self explanatory. Feel free to add to the list, though.

C. All of the "sneak attacks" that I cited in paragraph A had associated conspiracy theories, along with such other things as JFK's assassination and the moon landing. Again, feel free to cite others.

We are 1 year away from having soldier aged young men who haven't breathed in a time when we weren't at war with the Jihad, "hate crimes" are being prosecuted and more and more cameras and individual surveillance are getting closer to our living rooms. The most disturbing to me is that now in colleges this generation is learning that free speech is dangerous. Free speech is the last domino to fall in an Orwellian scenario. Your A, B, C are all the checkpoints to this end. I always thought 1984 was a very Soviet outlook, its been shocking to see how fast we have advanced to it in the last 25 years and that the momentum is picking up, not slowing down.