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America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era
Townhall.com ^ | May 17, 2016 | Michael Barone

Posted on 05/17/2016 5:17:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/17/2016 5:17:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Rome about the time of Nero.


2 posted on 05/17/2016 5:21:09 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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Very few Americans today want to return to stigmatizing homosexuality.

Do 'you' want your son or daughter marrying one?

3 posted on 05/17/2016 5:23:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Kaslin
Immigration as a percentage of pre-existing population between the opening of Ellis Island in 1892 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was three times the level of 1982-2007.

There was no federal assistance (welfare).

4 posted on 05/17/2016 5:26:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Kaslin

No Federal Reserve.
No popular election of Senators.

Give me 1910. It was a much better time. And very, very different from today.


5 posted on 05/17/2016 5:46:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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Another factor is that the US had vast expanses of land to be developed. This was a safety valve. People moved there and by their own initiative could excel. Same thing with Australia for England. Today, there’s too much government and too little opportunity for the individual to cut his own path.


6 posted on 05/17/2016 5:54:29 AM PDT by grania
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To: a fool in paradise
Very few Americans today want to return to stigmatizing homosexuality

I do. I want it completely stigmatized so that a homosexual feels deep shame and seeks the help that is available and needed.

I want my government to stop pretending, because bad things happen when governments pretend:

Governments pretended that black people aren't people.

Governments pretended that Jewish people aren't people.

Governments pretend that preborn people aren't people.

And now, governments are pretending that homosexuality is normal and the problems of that, like the problems of other pretensions, will never end until the pretending ends.

7 posted on 05/17/2016 6:02:48 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Barone is a fool and a sucker.

He has bought the lie that homosexuality is normal, healthy and desirable. While it is in fact the opposite of all three.


8 posted on 05/17/2016 6:06:41 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Kaslin

America today resembles the time of czar Nicholas II with the current iteration of Rasputin, Valerie Jarrett, the de facto dictator of government policy, in charge of most administration actions.


9 posted on 05/17/2016 6:09:02 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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They “handled the challenges” by electing Woodrow Wilson.

I’m not liking the comparison at all.


10 posted on 05/17/2016 6:11:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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They “handled the challenges” by electing Woodrow Wilson. I’m not liking the comparison at all.

WW was elected by a minority of voters, only because the majority of Americans split between Taft and Teddy R. That's what Mitt wants to repeat, and that is why he must be stopped by any legal means necessary.

11 posted on 05/17/2016 6:16:05 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Kaslin

For every ‘similarity’ America now has with 1910, there are probably 100,000 stark differences.

A popular weekly dime-novel periodical of the day back then went by the title “Work and Win.” That gives the first clue about some of the differences.


12 posted on 05/17/2016 6:27:12 AM PDT by greene66
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1912 - Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party

2016 - Willard “Mitt” Romney and the Bull Sh*t Party


13 posted on 05/17/2016 6:28:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

What a waste of time and words. Just another piece of garbage.


14 posted on 05/17/2016 7:13:59 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: a fool in paradise
Homosexuality is an aberration and a mental disease.

We do a disservice to the truth by not naming it as such.

"...No one today wants to go back to legally mandated and violently enforced racial segregation. ..."

I'd settle for minorities behaving according to normal, mainstream values, but demanding that would be rayciss.

15 posted on 05/17/2016 7:18:02 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Kaslin
I would fully support returning the entire federal code and constitution to what it was in 1910. Anything that was not a crime in 1910 would have to be looked at very closely before it were reinstituted, with built-in sun-setting provisions that would require positive votes to extend. Note: that at that time there would have been no 16th and 17th amendments. (Income Tax, and the direct election of Senators).

The vast majority of unconstitutional legislation now a part of the U.S. Code and CFR would disappear. We'd become instantly a freer country, and soon a much more prosperous one.

16 posted on 05/17/2016 8:11:38 AM PDT by zeugma (Today is Boomtime, the 64th day of Discord in the YOLD 3182)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Bull Moose Party? A.k.a. the Progressive Party?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)


17 posted on 05/17/2016 9:06:41 AM PDT by boomstick (One of the fingers on the button will be German.)
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What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America?

I was a kid during the last part of the '30s and I equate now to then - jobs were tight, hundreds of people lining up for a few jobs, the employer was top dog, the economy was trying to recover. Interest rates on savings were low, but not as ridiculous as now. One major difference was the deflation then compared to the inflation now. Deja Vu all over again.

18 posted on 05/17/2016 1:12:27 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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My long-deceased grandparents were preparing to enter the work force in 1910. Grandma left school after getting her eighth grade diploma when she was thirteen. She cleaned houses to help support her younger brothers and sisters. Grandpa went into the Navy as soon as he was of age to enlist. The two married when he finished his service which included WW I service.


19 posted on 05/17/2016 1:56:00 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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Very few Americans today want to return to stigmatizing homosexuality.

Poll parents, "Do you want your son to take it from behind?" I bet libs wouldn't like the results.

20 posted on 05/17/2016 2:56:39 PM PDT by Impy (Did you know "Hillary" spelled backwards is "Bitch"?)
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