OH MY HEAVENS! Where Did YOU Come From?

[JDPriestly]

16. Yes. 1970 -- two years after Nixon's election -- was the big turning point in our economy

and for everything.

Somehow the extreme right-winig managed to erase from American history the reality of the sense of community, the working together, the one-for-all and all-for-one that really built America and made it possible to develop our frontier. They just obliterated.

My husband and I watched PBS program on the building of the sewers in Chicago. It is fascinating and a perfect illustration of the cooperative, democratic socialist if you will, efforts that have made our cities and our national civilization possible.

The Koch brothers and the extreme right-wing deny all that.

I remember how my grandfather and the farmers in his area joined together to decide which farm would be harvested first, how they would participate and share in the scheduling of the huge equipment that harvested their crops, how they worked together to build schools and churches and take care of each other.

There is a huge lie out there about the history of our country, that we were made great by a few selfish types. That may have been true in the cities of the Northeast and the nearly feudal culture of the South, but it certainly was not true in the Midwest. The Midwest was built on cooperation and community. So be it.