We were warned..55 years ago..

[ironglow]

  Few seemed to notice then, but the media was already starting to present only what they wanted to tell the public..

   https://www.frontpagemag.com/fifty-five-years-ago-we-were-warned

[TrumpWon]

We were warned 74 years ago when George Orwell wrote “1984”.

[ironglow]

We were warned 74 years ago when George Orwell wrote “1984”.

  Or 91 years ago, with Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD...inspired by H.G. Welles', "A MODERN UTOPIA" (1905) and Welles', "MEN LIKE GODS".. (1923).

  MEN LIKE GODS and BRAVE NEW WORLD, were both a parody of the Marxist, Communist run Russia.

[Dee]

We were warned 236 years ago on September 17, 1787.

[Graybeard]

“On September 17, 1787, the Founding Fathers signed the U.S. Constitution. For over 200 years, the Constitution has served as the supreme law of the land. The Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights and other amendments, define our government and guarantee our rights.

[ironglow]

  Or we could go back to the Gaspee affair, in June 1772..

[Ranger99]

George Herter, the sporting goods and
firearms dealer of yesteryear was always
adamant about carefully watching china
and editorialized in his catalogs about
being prepared for emergencies.
Many criticized him for that, and called
him a kook, an alarmist,  etc.

People back then were comfortable and
apathetic about the evil people of the
world and they felt that there wasn't any
need for concern because they didn't think
anything miles away affected them,  so
let the other guy worry about it.
Pretty much like today

[Ranger99]

I'm just now hearing of the latest chinee
spy balloon over the US around Montana

Are they hesitant to shoot it down because
of the deals with the bidet family,  or does
it have an uh-oh payload that would have
ugly results of a shoot-down,  or both or what?