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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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.
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?
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.
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.
“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.
BJ Taylor=DJ Taylor
“Our country has been diluted with unfettered immigration “
That’s what killed California. The rest of the country is next.
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.
You would be correct.
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...
Exactly
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.
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...”
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.
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.
I lived in Houston and only knew 2 liberals.
Meh. Folks used to read books or the paper. No change, except the info delivery method.
“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...
Well, we used to talk (We tried to pick up girls...LOL) We laughed and talked football or whatever...
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.
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