2) A strong national economy can be recreated. It will be different, but we can have a country with decent jobs for people. It's not gone forever.
3) Only Leftists think that the 1950s were sexually repressed. Feminists and Homosexuals have told lies about our society prior to the wonderful 1960s sexual revolution. We've gone downhill through that change, we have not magically improved and become "unrepressed".
4) You misuse the word "integrated". What you meant was "segregated". And I swear, EVERY TIME someone like me says "The 1950s were pretty good" someone like you shows up and basically implies that a call for the return of Jim Crow laws has been issued by some racist fool like me. You need to grow up. A society with less government is NOT a society of slavery and/or Jim Crow. Find a new theme.
Democrats had their thumbs on the racial situation all the way from antebellum times through now. They wanted slavery; they wanted Jim Crow; they wanted welfare bribery; they wanted a troublemaker president.
The tail end of Jim Crow days is when IN SPITE OF IT black families were flourishing almost as well as white families in the USA, in terms of integrity if not in terms of wealth.
Had, when Jim Crow ended, the Democrats finally ceded the race issue as no longer germane to life in America, we could have entered something close to a racial Shangri-La. People would be thinking of racial oppression as a bad dream that had finally concluded.
But if you can’t straightforwardly oppress a race into being oppressed, you can bribe it into perceiving that it has been oppressed, and the bribe is more effectual.
Sorry for confusing “integrated” and “segregated.” I was in a hurry. My bad.
Saying that the 50s were good is textbook begging the question. I don’t imagine you’re any kind of racist or that you wish for a return to Jim Crow. I don’t know the first thing about you and I presume that you’re like most people in that you wouldn’t welcome such a thing. But a blanket statement like “The 50s were good” is very dependent on experience. Many black people in many parts of this country lived in abject fear for their lives for no other reason than being black. That’s just a fact.