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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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.
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.
I know some of those kind of folks in real life.
They’ll vote a country dry, and then move.
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?
After America got the golden years of Harding and Coolidge.
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.
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.
2008
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.
I remember...
Oh wait.
“Well we had two real horrible candidates to pick from that year.”
Progressive historians rate 2019 as “America’s worst year”.
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.
I figure Trump will accomplish even more this year toward making America Great Again than last year. Especially if we get the wall.
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.
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.
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