I would have to agree with your assessment.
It seems like we’re talking about what happened in a different country. Certainly not in the USA we now know.
Back then, even the political jousting was on the whole far more gentle and nuanced, at least it was on TV.
I know behind the scenes, people like LBJ and Nixon played Hardball to get what they wanted done. Sometimes a President has to force their will. FDR did it. Kennedy must have as well, but that was all ignored by the big three channels back then. Even if a paper like PRAVDA had reported about the JFK sex scandals, most Americans would not have believed it, so deep was our faith in the Camelot Fantasy.
Yeah, you look at those roasts, and it does seem like a totally different country. You couldn’t do those today, besides that those people are dead, but the talent no longer exists. You couldn’t have people of different ideologies sitting down at a table laughing together, since even comedy has been weaponized by the ultra-left. If Humphrey were sitting at a dais with Reagan and Goldwater or the like in today’s climate, HHH would be savaged by the left for daring to sit down with them.
It’s sickening what the left has done to our country and how it has so viciously divided it and incited hate in the past 5 decades. Pure evil.
All one has to do is watch one of the cable stations that plays all the old sitcoms from back then.
We're lightyears away from the America we grew up in, and the Left wants to take us even further into Sh*tland.
That is, if we left them...