tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post3395185800126304558..comments2024-03-29T04:38:14.302-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: America FirstLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-74692319882941739032015-11-25T12:04:34.699-05:002015-11-25T12:04:34.699-05:00Woody Guthrie wrote a song about Lindbergh in whic...Woody Guthrie wrote a song about Lindbergh in which he said, approx. "When he says America First he means America Next."Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-32458452929569797912015-11-25T10:56:22.480-05:002015-11-25T10:56:22.480-05:00God knows the internet has not helped with this ca...God knows the internet has not helped with this cave mentality: Facebook starts out as a huge net of people you know/knew/want to know and then, little by little, turns into an echo chamber as people limit their contacts to those they agree with, and today politics seems to be the main dividing line. Each side ramps up the hysteria over one incident or another until everyone's screaming - but at some point, you realize you're just screaming at your own kind, who all agree with you, and that (plus the point that screaming does not work that well) makes it pretty useless, except to keep the hive humming.Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-28714053828307483222015-11-25T01:14:35.842-05:002015-11-25T01:14:35.842-05:00The father of a classmate was convinced that Joe M...The father of a classmate was convinced that Joe McCarthy was right but more so: Anyone who disagreed about anything must be a communist. And I disagreed with him about that.<br /><br />Most people don’t realize the anti-German, anti-Irish, anti-Catholic Know Nothings who held the Washington Monument hostage, became the foundation for a modern political party. Some things changed; some thing didn’t.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.com