Posted on 06/14/2018 7:17:38 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Ron Howard has one question on his mind, and it has nothing to with his latest film, “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
“Honest question to #MAGA minders,” the 64-year-old tweeted Thursday. “When was America at its greatest? Can you tell me an era that reflects the ‘Again’ that you hope to return to?”
The Oscar-winning filmmaker and former “Happy Days” actor quickly started a conversation with users who had different opinions of President Trump’s famous slogan.
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What month?
Much of the civil rights legislation was needed, particularly in regards to voter access and non-discrimination by public entities. The poison pill came in the non-discrimination provisions governing private transactions. For centuries, if not millennia, one commonly accepted provision of contract law was that no contract could be considered valid if any of the parties were coerced into entering the contract against their will. The civil rights legislation undid that. If an hotel owner is not willing to rent a room to somebody based on race, color, creed etc. they are now compelled to do so by force of law.
You and I may think he’s a rotten person, but the success or failure of his business should be left to the free market to decide. This compulsion to force people into contracts against their will (see “Obamacare”) has set a truly bad precedent and become a very steep, slippery slope.
Pre-Johnson - he turned a strong movement in the right direction into the crap sandwich we have today...
“1964 when the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act...”
To go there you’d have to dial back all the way to 1861 - 1865 when Americans put their lives on the line to rid themselves of the institution of slavery left over from British colonial days.
600.000 Americans lost their lives in the struggle for human freedom/dignity.
That modern day Democrats have corrupted that sacrifice on the alter of Socialism doesn’t negate that fact.
“If JFK were alive today, he’d be considered a conservative.”
Often quoted tripe. Seriously would you want to claim Kennedy, with all his baggage, as an example of a Conservative? I wouldn’t.
Well, Opie, that would be any year without Barry Soetoro and any Democrat wreaking havoc and destruction on this nation.
Back when America was great your mom/women were chained to the oven not the kitchen sink.
JFK facilitated tax cuts and believed in a strong national defense. Honestly, I don’t know what happened to Bobby and Teddy.
April 19th, 1775.
“The WW2 generation was the greatest.”
They gave us the hippie generation.
The answer to your question is in Mayberry ...
Until they voted in JFK and LBJ ... been downhill ever since ...
Before the US was looked upon as a push over, before we financed our image of being “caring” by dumping b(tr)illions into waaaaay too many countries problems, before the govt decided they needed to be involved in every aspect of everyones lives, before we opened the floodgates to immigrants who not only forgo the legal methods of entering but milk them system hard once they arrive....
They fought the worst war in history, just kids out of the Depression.
40’s and 50’s.
Passed by Rockefeller Republicans and liberal Democrats.
The Civil Rights Act was opposed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and virtually every other conservative of the day. Hannity, Limbaugh and Glenn Beck stupidly claim that it was some conservative idea but it absolutely was not.
The bill gave government employees the ability to prosecute other Americans for thought crimes. See if you can guess how it is that political correctness has been forced on the American public. See if you can guess how a Colorado baker could be sued into oblivion for refusing an order for a gay wedding cake.
I was mostly trying to make a rhetorical point.
When Trump says MAGA, plenty of Liberals interpret that as “Bring back Jim Crow! Bring back slavery! America was great when blacks had no rights! That’s what Trump really means!”
It’s stupid.
So — when was America great? When we gave full civil rights to everyone regardless of race. And the Democrats mostly opposed that. Liberals pretend that wasn’t so, but it was. Civil Rights regardless of race became a law because of overwhelming Republican support.
You may find fault with the law. As you note, Goldwater and Reagan found fault with it. But, as a rhetorical point, for the Liberal who think Trump’s “MAGA” is some kind of racist dog whistle, I think that declaring 1964 as a great year in American history is a clever way to say “Republicans are not racists; Democrats are.”
Slavery , but this time for ALL Americans, was reintroduced by President Taft on June 16, 1909 when his speech before Congress gave birth to the 16th amendment. This cancerous poison pill to our Constitution essentially nullified the whole document. The income tax is unlimited in it's power to steal the work of all Americans turning every one of us into little more than free range slaves.
So when was America great? When liberty was maximized: May 13 1865- June 15 1909. How to make it ever greater? The amendments that made black slavery illegal are no longer needed and should now be repealed because they centralized federal power. Gut the income tax as well. Ultimate greatness is still possible, our American Founders gave us that chance for an ultimate cure with Article V.
“, I think that declaring 1964 as a great year in American history is a clever way to say “Republicans are not racists; Democrats are.”
It’s a foolish argument unless the point is to denigrate conservatives because the Civil Rights Act broke along liberal/conservative lines and party affiliation had little to do with the vote.
“Under President Lyndon Johnson, who had an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of Congress, liberal Democrats, together with Conservative and Liberal Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, convinced all but six Republicans to vote for cloture on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This vote broke a Southern filibuster led by Senators Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Strom Thurmond (D-SC). Though a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats (about 80% versus 60% respectively) voted for cloture and for the bill, the 1964 GOP Presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), voted against cloture; before his presidential campaign Goldwater had supported civil rights legislation but opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on constitutional grounds, believing private individuals had the right to choose with whom they engaged in business. The GOP was massively defeated in 1964, but recovered its strength in the congressional elections of 1966, and elected Richard Nixon president in 1968. Throughout the 1954–1980 era the Republicans were a minority in both the House and Senate, but most of the time they cooperated with Conservative Democrats.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_coalition#Decline_and_end
For a dissent on the idea that the Federal Government should be dictating employment preferences to private enterprise: "Civil Rights" vs. Civil Liberties.
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