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dav1965
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Is America worse off than it has ever been? I was born in 1965 and this is as bad as i have ever seen.
I think Americas better days are about done. When less than 5% controls the country its a sad day.[:(]
I would hate to have to raise kids in todays environment.[:(][:(]
I think Americas better days are about done. When less than 5% controls the country its a sad day.[:(]
I would hate to have to raise kids in todays environment.[:(][:(]
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Time was a duck's * haircut and shaking one leg while you scream into a microphone would keep you in the news for a while.
This is ignorance and book burning. This is Political Correctness gone mad. These people are anarchists. I think (and hope) some of these animals are just there to say they did something and are just idiots but theses Antifa goons are bad, really bad.
In the 60's everyone kind of poked fun at stuff. Look at the TV shows stuff like Sanford and Son or All in the Family that kind of entertainment would be deemed raycist today. Laugh in would be looked at today in horror by the libtard PC crowd.
This is a bad new world we live in and I am afraid its our fault.[xx(]
Read about the "Long Hot Summer" of race riots, the '68 Democratic Convention and the "Police Riots" and read "All the President's Men" for some background on when things were bad.
I also remember ending the Apollo moon missions because of "Been there, done that" and pressure to "spend the money on the poor". We also then got wrapped up in Watergate and the exit from Vietnam.
By the time Ford became president we were worn out and fed up. Carter got elected mostly because he was an "outsider" and we didn't want anything more to do with "Washington Insiders" and he made lots of folk feel he was a good guy and we would be better under him.
Which led to the hostage crisis and "stagflation".
Reagan was elected because he was seen as a positive leader and made lots of us feel good about being American. I also think his spending on "Star Wars" defense system greatly contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War which freed up a lot of money and contributed to the improved economy in the next few years.
But that money was not well spent, and we began a period of divisiveness which has gotten worse as time has gone by and we have not elected strong, effective leaders.
Is the BLM movement worse than the "Black Panthers",
"Students for a Democratic Society" and others of the late '60's?
I don't know. Only time will tell.
But the real question is "What do we do now?"
Who will lead us out of this mess? I don't see anyone trying.
That's what worries me. [:(]
Then again the WWII generation might have a bigger case.....or the folks that lived back during the Black Plague..
Nothing is new under the sun...and life goes on.
Though I could do without the BS media....stirring the pot on a constant basis.
So all this liberal/commie BS is just about what we all thought it was, the work of the devil!!![}:)][:(!][}:)]
There is so much hate in this country we are destroying ourselves from within.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Don't get old, it's a trap!
Short story time, back in 1972 I was invited to spend the night at the house of a neighbor. The night of the sleepover I was asked by my friend if I had ever been "cornholed"? I told him I did not think so and asked him what it meant. Not only did he tell me he said his Dad had taught him how. I was stoically mortified and immediately made up some BS excuse to get the hell outta there.
When I got home I told my father and went to my room and fell asleep. Three days passed and I noticed a for sale sign on my neighbor's house. It sold shortly thereafter. Come to find out later that my father and a few other father's in the neighborhood had a brief conversation with Mr. Cornhole, hence his decision to sell his house!
That's how it was done back then, logically and with common sense.
I can't say things are worse overall now, but they are certainly different. Many things are better: you don't see kids in iron lungs today, and cancer isn't always an automatic death sentence. Technology has made many things better, easier, and safer.
People, however, are worse. Crime is worse and more violent. More nations have nukes, and some are ruled by sociopaths. We have always had the needy, but today's are the indignant, entitled needy. Political correctness has had the opposite effect it supposedly began with. These are all people problems.
People have been saying the country is going to hell as long as I can remember, and Old guys have been grousing about how easy the young guys have it compare to the "old days" since we were living in caves.
I lived through the fear of Russian nuking us.
I recall some of the race riots and the civil unrest.
I remember Vietnam and its civil unrest.
Iran.
Iraq.
9-11.
But never in my 56 years of life have I feared for my country's future like I do now.