Posted on 06/08/2016 1:13:13 PM PDT by nikos1121
Dear Mrs. Clinton:
I whole heartedly agree when you say, "Donald Trump's idea of making America great again, means taking America backwards." I remember that America very well. It was an America of the 50's when Trump was growing up, and so were you and so was Bernie. Did you forget?
It was a time...
When Americans had pride about themselves, and dressed nice to go out in public.
When you could leave your front doors unlocked if you wanted to and not worry about it.
When children in school learned about the history of our country and proud to say the pledge of allegiance each morning.
When people immigrated here legally and proud the day they became citizens of our country.
When marriage was between a man and a woman.
When the word gay meant happy and a joint was a bad place to be.
When socialism was a dirty word and free enterprise meant, thinking and growing rich through an idea and hard work.
When a buck was still silver.
When a girl could still cook, and still would.
When ghettos were neighborhoods with sidewalks where people mingled on warm summer nights.
When the American Flag was a respected symbol and never burned.
When criminals actually went to jail.
When you were not afraid to go out at night.
When television was free.
When people talked without cursing.
When taxes were only a necessary nuisance.
When a boy was a boy and didn't wear his pants where you could see his underwear.
When a girl was girl and dressed like one.
When almost everyone went to Church on Sunday.
When things of quality were made in America.
When clerks and repairmen tried to please you and wrapped your purchase in front of you.
When college kids swallowed goldfish, not drugs.
When a drive-in movie was a fun place to watch movies.
When people respected their elders, and said yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir, no sir, even after they were grown up.
When most songs had a tune and the words made sense and never vulgar.
When people expected less, and valued what they had more.
When politicians proclaimed their patriotism and meant it.
When everyone knew the difference between right and wrong.
When things were not perfect-but you did not expect them to be.
When our government stood up for Americans anywhere in the world.
When you knew that the law would be enforced and your safety protected.
When you considered yourself lucky to have a good job and proud, too.
When the law meant justice and you were in awe at the sight of a policeman.
When you were not too embarrassed to say that this is the best country.
When America was a land filled with brave, proud, hardworking people.
When the cost of energy was cheap and our factories grew.
When there was no confusion about what rest room you should use.
When the nation wasn’t trillions of dollars in debt.
When 94,000,000 people were not out of the work force.
When you usually graduated from high school or college to a good paying job.
When politicians didn't accept millions of dollars from money abroad.
When places like Detroit and Upper New York thrived.
When water was abundant in California because the people planned it that way.
When you worked for the government you didn't have to join a union.
I could go on and on and, Mrs. Clinton, because you see, I grew up then too, and I remember those times.
For example, I'm sure like all of us then, you vividly remember where you were when you learned that our president had been killed. We all changed that day.
So, I'll stop, and allow others on this forum to tell you why it would be a good thing for us to go back to a better America, the kind Donald Trump is talking about.
And let me make it clear how most of us in this country feel about your vision of America. Your vision is one that is like the past 7 years. The Obama years.
Your America offers more of the same for our future--no incentives for employers to employ, nothing other than a redistribution of our wealth and mediocrity. Your vision of America are empty words.
That's not enough to win the election.
Romney won voters over 50.
That wasn't enough to win either.
It's not the 80s any more, and we can't win votes by complaining about the 60s or 70s to people who weren't even born then.
When I heard a the clip the first time, I immediately thought she stuck her foot in her mouth.
You can’t get anymore backwards than Obama
Hillary dear, Many of the leftist changes will be simply erased. We have your leaders precedence that we don’t have to follow the laws ( immigration, border controls, court mandates, illegal drugs) so we will just ignore your laws too and issue executive orders on things we want and ignore the courts like obama is doing in Texas on his illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. You set the standard that we will follow except they will take our culture and borders and country not backwards— but back from your rape of it. GO TRUMP!!!
When there is a cliff in the forward direction, it only makes sense to move backwards.
...and not "Si se puede."
Let’s not forget an itsy ditsy tennie weenie yellow polka dot bikini. Then MoTown stepped up to the plate with Up on the Roof. Darn, some great recordings came from that era! Remember them well :-)
Really? I pray that you are correct, but I dear the answer is otherwise in today's America, the land of income redistribution.
I say the “Perfect” year in American History was 1955.
I sat that when Ike appointed this BASTARD to the US Supreme Court(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren”)the country started DOWNWARD FAST!
There is some stuff in the past that we don’t need to revisit:
1. We polluted our air and rivers horribly. We might have gone too far with current clean air restrictions, but our rivers and lakes were really bad for a while there.
2. There was racial discrimination. Again, we have gone too far into Affirmative Action land, but America wasn’t a great place to live for a lot of blacks in the 1950’s.
I, in no way, wish to revisit the above circumstances. With those two additions (or corrections) I heartily agree with your list.
I'd have to go with 1956. That was the year I was born. More importantly, Frank Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers! was released in 1956, and he recorded A Swingin' Affair the week I was born. America and the world was a better place with the inclusion of those albums.
“Penny candy and Annette Funicello!”
5 cent Belly Busters,...24 for a dollar on weekends !!!
That sure sounds Mickey Mouse to me.
Yep, but you know what? I’d settle for a return to the 70s, as yucky as things were then. Nixon may have been a crook but we knew where he was born, kids would get booted from school for talking back to a teacher, and the Woman of the Year actually was one. I’d settle for that again!
BTTT
Ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country.
Quaker Puffed Rice.
Shot from Guns!!!
IMO, the slide got a real push start with LBJ and the Great Society. The Boomers couldn't vote in 64. Even a lot of my generation, the Silent Generation couldn't. But some of us could in 68 and more in 72 and we all saw how that turned out. The GOP brought on its own defeat in 76, but I'm sure more than a handfull of Boomers voted for Reagan and Bush in 80, 84 and 88. By 92, enough people were POd at both parties that a damaged 3rd party candidate still managed to garner more than 17% of the vote...and, because no one in power paid attention, 12% in 96. Now add all the recent minority immigrants (thanks to the Reagan amnesty) into the mix and we have the squeakers of 00 and 04 and with the way they have multiplied, we arrive at today. So to say it is ALL the Boomers' fault is far from accurate.
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