Our school lunch ladies did a lot with what they had. In my early years I think they made everything from scratch.
There are a few “hits” according to the kids.
And hey, America is still out here.
We often forget to lock our doors.
The kids stress about the dress code and gum in school instead of weapons.
The kids also help out Grandma and Grandpa, who live next door. DS 1 is an ace at getting Grandpa around in his wheel chair and they are all more sensitive because of growing up next door to the folks.
We are out in fly over country but it’s worth it.
Unfortunately, our ‘culture’ is determined by the people who live in cities.
As those cities are depopulated by socio-economic phenomena, white flight, crime or whatever reasons, the population that is left becomes more and more liberal and hence more and more depraved and immoral.
But the fact remains that the culture, such as it is, becomes that way as a result of those conditions.
People who live in ‘fly-over country’ are too dispersed and too politically disconnected, physically, to be able to change the nation’s direction. That is why the Dems want to change the constitution to elect presidents by ‘popular’ vote instead of electoral vote. If they ever manage to accomplish this, there will never be a conservative or even a Republican president elected again, and the republic will be over................