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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
I wouldn't call those places chaotic. They were small, rural towns, farming communities.
Makes a lot of statements without anything to back up his claims that we are better off today than 50 years ago rings hollow.
After all, 50 years ago, murdering babies was considered murder. The half breed was an unknown kid not destroying the country; we weren’t anywhere near $ 20 TRILLION in debt and we still had a viable two party government.
By any measure, between 1900 and 1950 life became far more comfortable, far richer, far safer, and far more optimistic than at any similar period in the previous 2000 years. Since 1950 personal freedom and personal opportunities have decreased at a geometric rate.
Now half the population doesn't even have an extended family much less communities where people actually get to know one another on more than a superficial level. In fact, many people forty and fifty years ago refused promotions because they'd have to move and disrupt their kids high school days or because they wouldn't be close their families. Now, more often than not people have to move or be unemployed.
And that doesn't even take into account that any high school kid that wanted a part time job could find one or that most people had a steady job or that doctors at the time made payment arrangements with their patients without a bank or credit company in the middle.
You also weren't tripping over tattooed, tramp stamped, lard butts, hanging out of their clothes everywhere you went because people still had some self-respect and didn't want to run the streets like feral hogs in heat. People haven't been liberated, they've been methodically degenerated and no amount of garbage about accepting one another can change the fact that people who don't have any self-respect have no respect for others either.
If we haven't already crossed the line, we're damn close to crossing the line that separates educated thought from being nothing but terminal stupidity with a specialized vocabulary.
JMHo
Agree ...... just more information telling us now what we never heard back then about how bad the world sucked per se......then and now.
I was thinking of this yesterday, not in terms of economics, but just life in general in the US, 1965 was a better time, a more civil, decent time. I would trade this time for those days in a heartbeat.
We didn’t have police at school doors and hallways...We had respect for our teachers...We said the Pledge of Allegiance to Flag every morning...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 shootings going on all the time...We could go to a drive-in movie and make out and not have to worry about getting hassled...We could go to a theatre and watch a movie without worrying about some idiot shooting up the place...
Yeah...Life WAS better then...
50 years ago average Americans didn’t feel like pawns in an international economic chess game. That alone is better than all the riches in the world.
50 years ago America was on top. Now, we are in a state of decay and decline and on the way to becoming a hellhole that may soon become unstoppable without a change in mode of thought and type of leadership.
Plus...There was no stigma attached to owning firearms....
Life was better 50 years ago, people were taking care of me.
I figure there were folks who were in their 80s during 60s telling others how great things were around the “turn.”
50 years ago my dad could always find cheap readily available 22 Long Rifle for me to shoot.
Medicine is the ONLY thing that progresses to the positive.
Everything else about society has gone downhill.
I really enjoyed reading that. Maybe we always miss the good ol’ days as we get older, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t. I miss societal civility, manners, respect and self-respect, honor, courage, integrity, gumption, chivalry, community - which are all being steamrolled by the generation that threw God, country, family, wisdom and common sense out the window.
Sure, the technology is nifty, but humanity is adrift in political correctness while savages run wild. Lawlessness abounds and the powers that be encourage it. This will not end well. I miss the good ol’ USA.
I’m better off than I was 50 years ago because I was six years old. No, we didn’t have the internet, only had four channels on the TV (and one of them was snowy) and didn’t have air conditioning in the car or in the house.
But on the other hand, I would spend the next 10 years running around the neighborhood with my friends, playing sports and shooting off our BB and Pellet guns. Oh, there may have been some explosives and fire, too, but we don’t need to get into that right now. And in my personal time I devoured every history and political book I could lay my hands on.
So, I guess I’m better off. But life for my kids is going to suck.
Well 50 years ago the ads for medicines didn’t run 50% of the ad time with the life threatening side effects. LOL!
Well 50 years ago the ads for medicines didn’t run 50% of the ad time with the life threatening side effects. LOL!
It depends on what is being compared. It is a situational thing.
I wouldn’t want to go back. It was not that ‘great’ of a time due to ongoing family issues, etc.
About 10 years ago, I noticed that the local grocery stores stocked watermellons and cantelopes — in December!
When I want to check something out or do a price compare, I search the Internet via browser and get instant results. I live a comfortable life — could want for more, as most people could.
It would have been nice in the late 1960s to have some of the advantages young people had today. My folks didn’t help much went I went to college. There wasn’t much financial aid. I was the first in the family to go and it was difficult because I had to work part time and attend college full time, some years, and the reverse — attend part time and work full time. I still managed to graduate in 3 years and 3 months.
No, I wouldn’t want to go back. I like Netflix and Amazon Prime too much.
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