The issue is that the folks in New York and DC want to control the lives and health of the folks in Sweetwater. They are no longer content with lording over the idiots in their own back yard, they want it all and everyone else now.
I would have to argue with the comment that we got better after those “worse times”. We never did recover... It only got worse... Until we found ourselves here, now, on the edge of (if not already in free fall into) the marxist abyss...
We are in free fall now, my FRiend
In just four days at Gettysburg 50,000 Americans died. My dad told me that he knew people during the depression that fed themselves by getting food out of garbage cans. OK, right now we got 9.8% unemployment. That's not as bad as it was during Reagan's second year in office; we got better.