Take a ride back in time by watching Woody Allen interviewing Billy Graham from September of 1969.
Interesting how today's right likes to condition its followers, creating the view that those wild 60s changed the country for the worse. Well, here you have two people who disagreed about practically everything, yet they have the most pleasant, personable and interesting discussion one would ever want to hear. They openly joke about each others views all the while they are very friendly, human.
I say the nation took the wrong turn in the 80s when conservatism brought forth people like right wing political hatchet man Lee Atwater and his minions in the college Republicans such as Karl Rove and
Terry Dolan - the Sun Myung Moon funded pioneer of the independent attack ad. Knowing that the nation would never support their real agenda, these deceptive people, lacking decent principles, set out to do the only thing they knew to win, that is, divide the country. They developed a movement best described as a cult which to this day depends wholly on wedge issues to gain and retain power. The new right, today's conservatism, has so spoiled decent political debate in the nation that we are now a house divided in a manner which has become what Lincoln rightfully warned us about.....
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Abe Lincoln June 16, 1858
It doesn't matter what your views of Allen or Graham are today, that's not the point. Check out this moment in time during the heart of the period when we as a nation had many differing views also, but we were not divided at our core as today's Republicans have taken us. Look back to a time before conservatism was guided by people like Atwater, Rove, Dolan and yes, Moon. Go back to a time when we could still debate and disagree without one side conditioned into a homophobic, theocratic, authoritarian, cult-like world view which denies reality and has deceived our nation into this insane death spiral.
Click on Part 3 HERE - and after a short ad, enjoy a look back to a time before today's "conservatism" had its ugly grip on us.