Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

Democracy Takes a Beating

   Attending an ‘SDS’ meeting 
      Watched ‘Democracy’ take a beating

   Listened to strident, long-haired voices denounce the USA
      shilling for Marx, Hegel, and Lenin all the way

   As for ‘law and order,’ it was ‘Kill the Fuzz.’ ‘Off the pigs’
      SDS ‘big bad wolves’ sure got in their digs   

   "Boycott Israel, the apartheid state"
      Accusations against South Africa could wait... 

   ‘Systemic racism, colonial imperialism, a fascist President’
      The SDS in 1969 ~ blazing trails for today’s arguments…


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   "SDS," Students for a Democratic Society, was the 1960's 
   forerunner of the 'cultural Marxism' infecting universities and
   even some corporate boardrooms today.

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Jennifer Proxenos April 24, 2024 at 10:56 PM Yes It is scary but students are passionate about this issue and the president, so long as they don't make the mistake of voting for trump. Blessings Jennifer Gershon Wolf April 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM Soup mail, please. Thanks!

Regina Elliott April 24, 2024 at 5:18 AM Hi Gershon, what's sadly happening at Yale, Columbia, and other U.S. colleges is frightening. What was then is tragically now. Prayers for persecuted Jewish people. Am Yisrael Chai. ~

I Am Anaya April 23, 2024 at 10:38 AM 60's on your mind? It's said, if you remember the 60's you weren't there, ha. If it weren't for the damn Vietnam war and the trumped-up Gulf of Tonkin resolution, America wouldn't have been involved with that colonial war and there would not have been an SDS and so much of the turmoil that you are referring to. Saw the news today 4/23 on the Columbia University protest-- sich!

Hilda Greenhough April 22, 2024 at 8:21 PM We should never be fearful of mobs. They are the true cowards. I hope we get America back soon. We have shelter at two oceans. Why is this here?