Originally posted by tjc3844:
Well now we've hit on something we can both agree about, adp. The electorate's complacency and apparent lack of knowledge is something that needs to be addressed. I'm a lot older than you and have seen the creeping change that is affecting our country adversely and makes me really worry about our future as a nation. Back in the 60's there was a more universal enthusiasm/hope that permeated American society. It was a time when politicians like JFK inspired the nation and challenged our people to dream big and not put limitations on what you could accomplish if you worked hard.
This is utter nonsense. The 1960's were perhaps the second most
tumultuous and divided time in American history, right behind the civil
war. Race riots, civil unrest, hippies, emerging drug cultures, Kent State, the KKK, Viet Nam protest. Country was on fire.
Government was immensely smaller back then.
Hardly. But LBJ was giving away entitlements like they were candy on Easter Sunday. There were hand outs all over the place. SS, Medicare, welfare - these are not new things. And there was plenty of it in the 1960's in relation to the population. Let's not act like the 90's invented reliance on the government.
People depended on friends, relatives and each other when they needed help never even thinking the government was intended for that. People's rights were respected and there were no forces in society besides the churches who tried to tell society what was right or wrong about what they could think, say or do.
Utter Utter BS. Black people could not use the same bathroom as you. Pretty sure this constiututed the gov't telling people what they could or could not do. They also drafted people into the Vietnam war. That was not exactly voluntary for most. There were marches on DC routinely.
It was a time when something like this message board with all of its hate filled attacks against strangers couldn't even have been imagined. Then, ever so slowly things began to change. A lot of what's happened has been great and made life better, easier and more productive for billions of people around the world. But, the societal decay continued to slowly creep along.
The KKK hid under sheets, now they are behind keyboards. I prefer the sheets. It's more honest.
God was attacked.
God has been under attack, and on the attack, for centuries. Seriously.
The family began to fall apart. School systems declined. Neighborhoods became war zones.
Chicago 1930s? NYC 5 points and the Mob? Chicken Man in Cop? Cities are safer now than ever. FACT.
Racial and religious intolerance increased.
Blacks could not vote or take a piss in the same john, or eat at the same restaurant. Jews were being killed at the Olympics. And you think intolerance has INCREASED?
That's just part of what's happened in my lifetime. I'm convinced our society has the ability to turn things around and save our country. I won't be here to see it and your generation has to be the one to stop the slide. I hope you do.