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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1913...when Wilson sold us out to the globalists/federal reserve.
“Obviously, it was prohibition was passed as the law of the land.”
Bingo.
Established the unholy alliance between politicians and organized crime as well as unleashing the full force and fury of the Central Government on the American people. Created a disdain and hatred for authority. All this lingers to this very day.
1919. Woodrow Wilson was wholly EVIL. 1941 FDR had reddening points, but not domestically.
1919 also gave us the Versailles Treaty, which guaranteed WWII.
I think the worst of the Spanish Flu was over by 1919, though there were still cases reported. That year also saw a bad econimic downturn as war spending ended and farms and businesses that had borrowed heavily to finance expansion to meet the wartime demand went belly up.
Everyone was still recovering from the flu pandemic.
Also the year my father was born.
Interesting that banning alcohol took a Constitutional amendment but doing the same to marijuana just meant passing a law. And of course, Dubya Bush finished the Republic off with Gonzales v Raish, which let the feds outlaw anything they damned well please, even marijuana grown and consumed at home.
Yes, it was. The French get credit for that.
I think Clemenceau and Hitler are forever chained together in Hell.
Clemenceau wouldn’t mind;
Hitler would be irritated.
1919 was a great year for my family. It was the year my dad was born...
Shhhhh, the drug warriors and teatotalers are still quite active around here. On any cannabis thread the same tired old BS lines used by the advocates for prohibiting alcohol are considered to valid arguments; just because they didn’t work before.
The first commercial dial telephone installation (Automatic Electric) was 1892, though 1919 was the year Bell began introducing large-scale dial exchanges.
The pop-up toaster was patented in 1919, but didn’t appear on the market until 1921.
There were no “shortwave radios” in 1919, at least as complete off-the-shelf products. At the time, shortwave (above 1500 kHz) was considered useless commercially, so experimenters and hams got free rein to play around with homebuilt equipment on those frequencies. Eventually by the early 20s, the major players discovered the potential of short waves.
“Lingers”? Hell just change the names and the jack boot licking drug warriors get all tumescent at the thought of busting their fellow Americans.
My Mom survived the Sanish Flu, went on to live to 102.
2009 was a pretty bad year, too. Just the thought of that America-hating SOB is enough to raise one’s blood pressure.
Well we had two real horrible candidates to pick from that year.
"Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"?
John McCain was temperamentally unsuited to be President and probably would have given Jimmy Carter a run for his money for title of worst President of the last 150 years, but his Supreme Court justice nominations probably wouldn’t have been as bad as Obama’s. Of course he might not have had any—Souter and Stevens might have delayed retiring until the next election.
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