As someone who grew up in the fifties and sixties what I remember most is virtually everyone, Dem or Republican, loved their country. Nobody liked deadbeats, and every adult would rather have an arm cut off than go on welfare. Men took care of their families. Unlike what some people would have young people believe, children weren't coddled. Certainly not in my family nor anyone I knew. I didn't know one pampered kid.
The social fabric was strong because almost everybody had the same social and moral values. Communism was a dirty word. I remember teachers at my Catholic hs school disparaging "creeping socialism"
Now with the growth of liberalism much of that is gone. The social fabric has been well nigh destroyed in the desire for unlimited sexual fulfillment, drugs, and the lack of love of country. Those sorts of people don't understand that the unadulterated dash for hedonism destroys them and hurts the country. I have to think America peaked in the early sixties.
I agree with all you have stated, as that was the America of my youth. From 1967 on we were in a decline. I was in college in San Francisco in 1968. I was there, I saw the beginning.
I have to think America peaked in the early sixties.
My belief also..I think it all started unraveling on 22 Nov, 1963.