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I’m 60, and I grew up within 5 miles of the first McDonald’s “restaurant” in Des Plains, IL (in 1955, I believe, it opened and it ran the nearby Howard Johnson’s out of business in about 6 weeks). Ray Krok’s vision of fast, friendly, high quality, good value service in a clean environment was revolutionary — and they remain the dominant force in their industry today. When asked (probably 2 decades ago) what the key to their continual success was, the president of the company at the time said simply, “We’re Midwestern”. Today, with Barack Obama and the corruption of Chicago politics surrounding the presidential race, I suspect they’d have a different answer.

Anyway, it didn’t matter that we grew up eating mush for breakfast back in the old days and now more people eat at fast food restaurants: our kids brains are full of mush and are being thoughts filled with mush — at school, on TV, at the movies, among their friends, and from their poltical “leaders”. I grew up in the 1950’s when families were more intact and we had a much greater appreciation of our country’s principles and founding ideals. There was moral absolutism: right and wrong.

You can still find the truckstops — just don’t go looking for the right “thinking” there or anywhere else. Our society (my generation) seems to have a death wish: all that was good about America has been trashed for too many years and is now viewed as bad. It’s an upside down world thanks to the thought police who were born out of the radicalization of the 1960s. JMHO.