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If you think life was better 50 years ago . . .
Reason.com ^ | April 1, 2016 | Nick Gillespie

Posted on 04/02/2016 7:24:52 AM PDT by Macoozie

. . . what's most striking to the chart above isn't the spread between Trumpists and Clintonistas (though it is stunning, to be sure), it's that only a bare majority of the latter feel things are better now than they were 50 years ago.

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To: JBW1949

Thanks, some think I do and I’d bet the farm, there are those that think differently.
I say , in conversations from time to time, that people my age have seen the best this country had to offer.
That post by B J Taylor was very good and he touched on a lot of things that are good.


101 posted on 04/02/2016 9:38:11 AM PDT by depenzz ("Incoming fire has the right-a-way" (Marine adage))
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To: TomGuy

So here is a question. Technologically we are much better off today. However, I think from the standpoint of civility, manners, security and freedom we were better off 50 years ago. Are the two mutually exclusive? Could we have achieved the technological advances and maintained the cultural or did the tech advances mandate a cultural deterioration?


102 posted on 04/02/2016 9:39:48 AM PDT by redangus
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To: redangus

It used to be that people needed to be more social in order to be entertained, now with technology, people don’t have to talk to each other, they can just chat on their cellphones.


103 posted on 04/02/2016 9:40:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Macoozie

I wonder how this dork knows all this? Did some college degree know it all tell him? Well then, it must be so then right?

Here is a fact for that dork. Take a look at it for yourselves.

Even in the late 60s, the family structure was still in place-hell, even up to the mid 70s. Take a look at how many children are growing up in single parent homes now. One of the parents worked and provided income for the family while the other stayed mainly at home taking care of the children..and if they got out of line, they got a swat cross the head to correct them.
Then came the mid 70s-around 1975 I saw the change. No respect, the GIMME GIMME GIMME atitude began and parents struggled to adress the loss of respect from all corners of the society. Now, guess who began to get into the education system around that time? It was the stinky filthy lying socialists who had run wild during the late 60s while they were in college, smoking their wacky weed and shooting their drugs, screwing everything that moved, and doing nothing and expecting everything. Those are the ones who infiltrated the schools and began the long slide towards an ignorant soiciety.


104 posted on 04/02/2016 9:41:31 AM PDT by crz
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To: Macoozie

“I’m not sure if Mr Gillespie is on the same planet as the rest of us. “

He lives on planet libertarian, where only economic and material issues matter.

In that fashion it’s remarkably similar to its mortal enemy, planet Marx.


105 posted on 04/02/2016 9:43:34 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: depenzz

BJ Taylor=DJ Taylor


106 posted on 04/02/2016 9:44:50 AM PDT by depenzz ("Incoming fire has the right-a-way" (Marine adage))
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“Our country has been diluted with unfettered immigration “

That’s what killed California. The rest of the country is next.


107 posted on 04/02/2016 9:46:37 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Macoozie
About the only things I'd really miss would be vcrs/dvrs and the internet. But life would certainly be very livable.

They had drive-in movies everywhere in those days. Whenever we see one of the few remaining ones on our trips, my wife bugs me to go to one as they didn't have them where she grew up (England.)

Tv, movies, music were all better in those days.

108 posted on 04/02/2016 9:47:00 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Macoozie
If you think life was better 50 years ago . . .

You would be correct.

109 posted on 04/02/2016 9:50:24 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: depenzz

You are very welcome...

Back a few years ago, I lost my right leg above the knee...
Both my wife and I talk about I’m just an old cripple and make jokes about it...People sometimes don’t know how to react or take us when we do...
I have had a great life..Vietnam vet, former college football coach...Great kids and grandkids (my 4 year old grandson says he wants a “Robot Leg” like his PaPaw).

We just figure things happen and you make the best of it and go on...


110 posted on 04/02/2016 9:52:00 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: Gaffer

Exactly


111 posted on 04/02/2016 9:52:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (is Cruz last name a coincidence or a blessing or is he the anti Christ)
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To: mulligan
I will be 77 next week.

I would go back to 1966 in a heartbeat!

I'm glad I grew up when I did. I'm glad I'm as old as I am. I feel sorry for children growing up in today's world.

The best thing about growing up today is...young people don't know any better.

112 posted on 04/02/2016 9:52:32 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: dfwgator

Before I retired, I drove past a bus stop for college kids...There would be 10-15 waiting for a bus and every single one would be looking down at their hand holding an Ipad or Ipod or whatever they are called...Not of them were conversing with each other...I thought, “How sad and boring...”


113 posted on 04/02/2016 9:54:37 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: Larry Lucido
"I figure there were folks who were in their 80s during 60s telling others how great things were around the “turn.”"

You figure dead wrong. Such folks were routinely making the point that things were so much better in the 60s than they were back in the day.

114 posted on 04/02/2016 9:55:39 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: JBW1949

I went to college before iPads and smartphones. We would stand at the bus stop staring at nothing and not conversing. It really hasn’t changed, you just think it has.


115 posted on 04/02/2016 9:55:40 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: mountainlion
I wore a MIA bracelet.

I lived in Houston and only knew 2 liberals.

116 posted on 04/02/2016 9:55:42 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: JBW1949

Meh. Folks used to read books or the paper. No change, except the info delivery method.


117 posted on 04/02/2016 9:56:41 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (If I respond slowly, itÂ’s because moderators are reviewing every comment of mine.)
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To: JBW1949

“We didn’t have to go through metal detectors to go to school, sports events, government buildings...We didn’t get “patted down” when at the airport to catch a flight.”

We didn’t have mosques...


118 posted on 04/02/2016 9:56:47 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Well, we used to talk (We tried to pick up girls...LOL) We laughed and talked football or whatever...


119 posted on 04/02/2016 9:59:06 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: exDemMom
I think that people tend to look at the past through rose-colored glasses

That is certainly true. Life was a tad harder for many people. I didn't eat in a restaurant until I was almost 16. Not that we starved, there just wasn't a lot of money to around...and besides my father was very tight-fisted.

When I was three years old there was a kidnapping that took place close to our home that drew national attention. That was the Evelyn Hartley case. She was a 15 year who was kidnapped while she was babysitting. She was never found and presumed dead after a few years. The house where she was kidnapped was just a few blocks from where I lived.

But I didn't find out about it until I was older. We still went all over creation even though we were very young. Parents just didn't worry about kids as much back then.

120 posted on 04/02/2016 9:59:51 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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