Posted on 02/04/2019 8:07:02 AM PST by sparklite2
Every mouth I meet opens to complain, “Things’ve changed . . . Nothing’s the same . . . Not like we were . . . The country isn’t what it was . . .” So I checked back — exactly 100 years — to see the America of 1919.
World War I over. The USA needed security. Instead, cities experienced “Red Scare” bombings, race riots, workers striking, vets competing for jobs, May Day demonstrations, armed resistance movements and the deportations of 149 people, including Emma Goldman, to Russia. Historians rate 1919 “America’s worst year.”
Dial telephones, pop-up toasters and shortwave radios made their entrance. Despite that pardon-the-expression “car” named for him, Edsel became head of Ford Motor Co. And — ready? — our Pennsylvania got crowned the world’s most popular hotel. Also, chemist Akira Ogata developed crystal meth. So everybody, shut up.
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So 1941 was better? Really?
Red historians that is
No mention of the influenza epidemic?
That alone would mark 1919 as a very bad year.
Black Sox scandal happened in 1919.
Part of the “Trivia for Uneducated Drug Addicts” game.
Well it sort of got us out of the Depression; in a way.
Don’t forget the flu pandemic that continued through to 1920.
Not to mention the 19th amendment was passed by Congress in 1919...
(just kidding, ladies!)
all those stupid amendments had just recently been passed ...
Obviously, it was prohibition was passed as the law of the land.
Earthquakes are better than hurricanes because BAM and they’re over. Hurricanes go on and on.
Pearl Harbor was an earthquake. The crap happening in 1919 was a hurricane.
On balance, it was a bad thing.
I wonder if the guys on the USS Arizona thought 1919 was worse.
This is plain stupid. Ridiculous.
No mention of the influenza epidemic?
That alone would mark 1919 as a very bad year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE0-WWqhFls&t=159s&frags=pl%2Cwn
He puts the lethality of the flu and the war in perspective at the very end.
On balance you’re right much as I hate saying it. The Rats would not win another election and it would not be legal to kill an 8 month old baby period.
Incoming..
Well said.
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