All brought to you by liberalism.
Amen!
Thank you, Liberals, for destroying our lives. This article is a battle cry to utterly destroy the democrat party.
What has happened is loss of community and self pride.
Replaced with massive growth, political correctness, and multiculturalism.
Anythingelse????
I've thought these very things. I know my kids think I'm crazy when I talk about how things have changed and how much better things used to be in so many way. Progress has been great, but it's meant we've lost so much.
We had a young couple move in next door to us. We have become aquainted. it is very sad how helpless kids are today. I call them kids because I am over 50 like the lady discribes. She has asked me if I will teach her how to cook. she is learning how to keep a house clean. I think she is sweet and I can see and hear the hope in her voice for a normal home and family. I will do what I can. But, the writer is hitting a home run on this one.
I can relate! Good article.
Isn't some of this just generational griping? It seems like each generation talks about how easy or how lost the younger generations have it.
Surprised to see this article was written by a woman.
What wonderful memories, and I don't even think I'm that old (45 years). I remember providing just that for my children as late as the early eighties. Times have certainly changed or I have changed. But fond memories none the less.
Thank you
Great article!
All those things courtesy of Steinam, Patricia what's-her-name and those other feminazi's (thank you Rush).
Heck, I'll be 39 this year and I see a huge loss between the 1970's and now. On a Morrow Project gaming group I'm in, one gamer is in Alaska, back in 1980, he remembers there was a remote village in Alaska where the Eskimos knew how to hunt, fish and take care of themselves with a minumum of electricity but now the town is so dependent on the power plant built there since that if the shipment of fuel oil is late, they are in dire straits.
The author did not even touch upon the downgrading of morals to the relativistic "values". Divorce, abortion, and "homosexuality" were all but unknown of 50 years ago. Nowadays they are everywhere; the latter two abdominations are celebrated with a religious ferver - even by some mainstream denominations! There is nothing beyond the here and now - beyond instant, fleeting gratification. People are trapped in an empty, materialistic existence. Even as a 40 year old, I can remember a very different America and can sense the the loss of what was before I was born.
I have to also wonder how much can be attributed to liberalsim on this one. Materialism definitely has a big part in this. People want all these things that they seem to "need", and all the better for the corporations that happily sell these products to them.
Additionally I have to wonder how much simple nostalgia plays a role into the writing of this article. Everything always seems better when looking at it in the past.
I have to weigh in here. We had a cistern when I was a kid (not a well - there is a difference). I really didn't like having to pump a bucket of water and carry it in, then spill it on the floor and catch hell from the old man. Trust me, it's much better to have a simple tap to get water from. And, when the old man would clean out the cistern once a year, and you saw what was in the bottom of it, well. . . .
It's true you have to fight to learn to be self sustaining if necessary, I have always thought it was worth it. But can you imagine how you would have to fight to keep those at bay that can't drive without a cell phone stuck to their heads? And wouldn't have a clue how to hunt, preserve and plant for your own family? It would not be pretty. More ammo.