[US Navy Vet]

Just DAMN! I feel like weeping for my country!

[Tzimisce]

Welcome to the club.

I never, ever in a million years ever thought I’d see most of the things I see going on everyday. :(

Obama promised “change” and it’s the only promise he’s kept. :(:(:(

[RoseofTexas]

God was kicked out of America, and the folk let it be so! :(

[3Fingas]

That country still exists in the hearts and minds of all of the people in this forum — outside of Free Republic, not so much.

We must fight to take back our country. We must fight like there is no tomorrow, because if we give up now, there won’t be.

[El Sordo]

Try listening to country music from that time and compare it to now.

It makes me want to slit my wrists.

[El Sordo]

Dammit...

Now I cannot get the theme from The ‘A-Team’ out of my head.

[wintertime]

...What happened? How did my beloved country get in this shape!?
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What happened? Answer: In the mid-1800s to early 1900s “progressives” imposed government owned and run, socialist-funded, schools on our nation's children.

The first government schools offered up a generic and lukewarm Protestantism and children learned to be lukewarm and generic about their faith. Later schools were godlessly secular with a sprinkle of prayer in the morning. Children then learned to be godlessly secular in their thinking as long as there was a nod in God's direction. Today's schools are utterly and completely godless. Children MUST learn to think and reason godlessly if they are to cooperate with the classroom instruction.

Finally....Children who attend socialist schools learn to be comfortable with government taking money from a neighbor for a service their parents want for free. Well! Gee! If government can take money ( by threat of force) for free schools why not elect Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and get even MORE free stuff?

If you send children into godless and socialist schools we will reap godless and socialist adults. And...It seems that about 50% of our nation has now moved over to the dark side and a dangerous percentage are outright communists.

[FlyingEagle]

Cheer up.

Its a Matter of Trust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yYchgX1fMw&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLPUaGiBzI_UQ

and Its Still Rock and Roll to Me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAQa4MOGkE&ob=av2n

[smokingfrog]

I blame Michael Jackson.

[CommieCutter]

I’ve been doing the same thing off and on since this guy became president. It sometimes feels like the only way to get you’re country back is to relive the past. It really sucks.

[NoLibZone]

NEA.

They control the schools.

We lost the culture wars fifty years ago.

Voting will not fix the nation.

[GreatRoad]

9-11 happened. The muzzies hate our freedoms and they took it away that day. Learning How they were allowed to do that, is the key to getting our country back.

[sjmjax]

Speaking of music...

This is for those who'd like a stroll down memory lane:

Juke Box

[fr_freak]

I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I felt this change coming my whole life. I watched as my peers sucked up every bit of leftist propaganda out there. I had plenty of arguments with other kids and young adults over the years about the latest leftist BS they were buying. The arguments with the Mexicans and blacks were especially nasty and enlightening as to what was coming. I also watched as more and more people claimed to care about the country, but couldn't even tell you who the vice-president was if their lives depended on it. TV and pop music have gotten more and more anti-American until we're actually surprised when a Hollywood product or celebrity isn't a flaming America-hater.

Frankly, anyone who hasn't seen this coming for decades hasn't been paying attention.

[muir_redwoods]

Collectively in a hundred million hearts we asked the question,

"What harm is there if we just..."

Now we see what harm there is.

[TruthHound]

I’m with ya. Screw these inane “smart” phones. Just give me a CB radio, good buddy. No seat belt laws and those cup holders in the console were for BEER! Smoke any frickin’ where ya want for 75¢/pack and a gallon of gas was the same! If you were payin more than $25 bucks a month for cable, you had every premium.

“God and country” was more than a punch line for media hacks.

But neighbors could have honest differences of political opinion without being condescending and snooty about it.

It was morning in America. Now nothing left but mourning.

[mkleesma]

I did exactly the same thing.

But when I get down, I look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY

and I know things WILL get better. There’s another Ronald Reagan waiting in the wings...we just have to find him/her.

[Ezekiel]

Remember when people used to laugh?

Visit YouTube for Dean Martin Roasts and the Tonight show with Johnny Carson, and you’ll cry alright.

Remember when America had a real president, because Americans voted for a real president? Watch videos of Ronald Reagan and weep.

The modern “progressive” society is built upon a false foundation of lies. It seeks to defile and destroy. Lying is its native tongue.

The offspring of the bondwoman are not heirs with the offspring of the freewoman. Here is the patience and faith of the saints.

[tlb]

1986 was a good year. Yay Cyndi Lauper

Pee-wee’s Playhouse Theme Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcYGOIJhqo

[doorgunner69]

What happened?

IMNSHO, Gen-X/Y/Z, and their fondness for piercings and other body mutilations, suicide angst grunge rock. And of course overwhelmingly voting for democrats.

Just look at the hollywierd offerings since then, blatantly produced for that age group. No rocket science needed to see the connection.

[Dahoser]

Here are two greats from '80s TV for us.

Crime Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQS16P2m2Lc

Miami Vice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1o-NWNmQLM&feature=related