Historians rate 1919 as ‘America’s worst year’

NYP ^ | February 4, 2019 | By Cindy Adams

[SoCal Pubbie]

Technically, Prohibition did not ban alcohol. It did outlaw the production, sale, or transportation of booze. Effectively that was the same, but consumption was perfectly legal. Doctors were allowed to write prescriptions for alcohol, farmers were allowed to produce wine for their own consumption, and wine used for religious rites was also legal.

[sparklite2]

True. You could buy grape bricks to make you own wine.

Similarly, under pressure from dairy farmers, it became illegal to sell margarine that was yellow, like butter.

So margarine manufactures sold you a brick of margarine and a pack of coloring to mix together.

[sparklite2]

I know some of those kind of folks in real life.
They’ll vote a country dry, and then move.

[shanover]

1919 could be labeled as the year that America’s slow decline started following Wilson shredding the Constitution and an absolutely worthless engagement into WWI. Who could imagine FDR and WWII on the horizon?

[Sam Gamgee]

After America got the golden years of Harding and Coolidge.

[Chuckster]

From the article:

Apples, 1 pound cost 11 cents; 1 pound of roast beef, 38 cents; 3 pounds of steak, 60 cents; 1 pound of butter, 39 cents; 3 pounds of chicken, 19 cents; bacon, 21 cents; cod, 10 cents; can of salmon, 27 cents; dozen eggs, 61 cents. If you were hot on cabbage, it was 14 cents a pound, and cheese (who knows what kind, and who cares?) was 41 cents.

[Buckeye McFrog]

You could make a good case for 1919. Including the fact that Edith Wilson was the unelected acting POTUS and her husband’s political enemies were languishing in jails.

You can make a good case for 2008 also. The Obamination and resulting bank bailouts, which only served to reinforce our gibmedat culture.

[MichiganCheese]

2008

[sparklite2]

Yup. And yet it’s Harding that gets labeled as the worst president of that era. His family sat on Harding’s correspondences until 2014. Prior to that, Nixon’s tapes were available on line, but Harding wasn’t dead enough.

[Teacher317]

For me, the worst non-war year was 1913.... the 16th and 17th Amendments... Wilson creates that Federal Reserve... The Wheatland Hop Riot and the Indianapolis Streetcar Strike (workers getting violent) and The Italian Hall disaster (striking laborers party gets out of control, 53 children stampeded to death, the reason one "cannot yell "fire!" in a crowded theater") ... The Great Dayton Flood and the Alum Chine explosion in Baltimore... Death Valley hit the 134F global record... and the first amateur to win the US Open (by 5 strokes).

[Buckeye McFrog]

Harding wasn’t dead enough.

His grave is across the street from a shopping mall in Marion, Ohio. Stumbled across it one day, purely by accident.

[sparklite2]

It's an imposing structure.

[DCBryan1]

1919 was a good year:

[Big Red Badger]

I remember...
Oh wait.

[Ancesthntr]

“Well we had two real horrible candidates to pick from that year.”

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That we did. But I’d like to think that at least McCain, had he been elected, wouldn’t have been quite so angry at the American public. He’d have been pathetic, compared to Trump’s putting of America and Americans first vs. the rest of the world, but better than the other guy. Hell, my dog would have been better than the other guy - at least my dog has loyalty.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Progressive historians rate 2019 as “America’s worst year”.

[sparklite2]

Can’t imagine why. I wouldn’t make a prediction on a year that is only one month old. If anything, the year of Trump’s election should be their worst of late.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I figure Trump will accomplish even more this year toward making America Great Again than last year. Especially if we get the wall.

[sparklite2]

If he doesn’t, he’s accomplished enough already
to deserve a second term. A roaring economy
does not fall off the radar, even if pushed.

[Midwesterner53]

1968-69, far worse because the people in the streets then hated America and did all they could to destroy it. Their actions laid the foundation for the modern Democratic party and their lunacy on the left.