Posted on 04/02/2016 7:24:52 AM PDT by Macoozie
. . . what's most striking to the chart above isn't the spread between Trumpists and Clintonistas (though it is stunning, to be sure), it's that only a bare majority of the latter feel things are better now than they were 50 years ago.
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I think I’m going to go with Solomon’s quote there is nothing new under the sun. We still have vices and virtues in varying quantities. Much of the change is superficial. Still, there is no prior time that I would go back to permanently. I’d prefer to look forward.
We can discover more but there's no money for the research.
50 years ago anyone that wanted a job got a job.
In 1966, I was a small child growing up in California, in the San Francisco bay area. That was right in the middle of hippy country, and my mother was fascinated by hippies (but never actually was one). Even as a child, I saw the hippies as fakes, pretending that people are something other than what they really are.
Was life better then? I dunno. The hippy culture certainly was not better.
“I’m 67 and life was MUCH better 50 years ago...”
I remember leaving to go on vacation in 1960 and my mother asked my old man if the door was locked. The old man said “we don’t have a key, haven’t seen it for a couple years. Think we should get one made?” She said no, we took off.
Orilly? That's the sign of the good life? I don't trust the judgment of a man who obviously doesn't hang out with anyone with kids, and may not have the ability to sire them himself.
Whether or not life was better 50 years ago or not depends on where one places one’s values. For the “Netflix and chill” crowd, something like the fact that the illegitimacy rate today is 70% for blacks, 50% for Hispanics, and 30% for whites doesn’t even register.
Wasn’t things much simpler back then?? I do miss those times...
I am 72. And things were absolutely better. Although we thought elections were important, they would never have the dangerous consequences of today. Today we are worried about our lives and the life of liberty and justice for all AMERICANS. we had immigration quotas—most came from northern Europe plus some Russians came over here if they could escape, for freedom —not to ruin our country. Conservatives didn’t like DEMs and liberals.. LBJ and JFK lay the groundwork for what we have today.
Commies found by the FBI went to prison if they were not register. Eisenhower was great—except for appointing Earl Warren for SCOTUS. When Ike retired, he said that was the worst mistake he ever made in his lifetime. I could go on but I am boring most of you.
And rather tries to hang out with those kids.
“Wasn’t things much simpler back then?? I do miss those times...”
Yep. Couldn’t imagine being in the house in the summer. Checked traps in the morning, rode bikes in the dirt, played ball in the park...I jess duntno...
I think that people tend to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. In this day of rapid communication, news of a kidnapped child can spread throughout the world in minutes, whereas in the 1960s, the same news could take days to spread throughout the community.
As a child, I managed to fend off three kidnapping attempts, in the 1960s and early 1970s. My mother let me play all over the neighborhood, but she had also told me to never take candy from strangers. And it is that advice, as dumb and cliché as it sounds, that saved me from being kidnapped and murdered.
I think that helicopter parenting, where kids are NOT taught to look out for danger and their parents are always nearby, is certainly not better than it was 50 years ago. But I don't think the dangers have significantly changed.
I really enjoyed reading your post.
It’s the same as with Republicans and Democrats. The difference is “working class” vs. “elites”. And by working class, I mean anyone who earns a living doing work, not necessarily “blue collar”, either. The elites are the journalists, academia, political class, etc., who don’t do anything but pontificate, write, research and offer opinions.
My Mother in Law told me that back then they used to take their kids out and watch them baseball and then have a laugh and drink on the side.
Said life was much more simple, and people felt more free.
Today she said you can’t take a drinkl to a kids soccer game as it is frowned upon, you can’t do a lot of what they could back then and they certainly did not have perverts, homosexuals, cross dressing in your face.
Dad comes home from work, meal on table,. kids at table, mother and father relaz while kids then play out.
Ridiculous!
“Gillespie is 52 years old. He doesn’t know shit about 50 years ago. Only what some dip wad journalist or professor has told him. Meaningless.”
Thank you.
Serving my Country half a Century ago and proud of it.
I’m old enough to have had surgery twice with ether as the anastetic. Don’t miss that a damn bit.
I’m sixty-seven and I think life was better then. We were more free and people were more sensible. After a meal, in a restaurant, you could smoke a cigarette without getting arrested, and if you broke a thermometer no one called hazmat.
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