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In reply to the discussion: Does this atmosphere, this feeling in the air, remind you any of the late Sixties...? [View all]onyourleft
(726 posts)129. The generation gap...
...is no different now then it was when I was 20 or 30. My parents, staunch Republicans, couldn't believe the obscene rent I was paying for a three bedroom condo ($350) and couldn't believe I would have trouble supporting two children on $1,500 a month. The problem was the fact that they bought a house in 1954 (I was ten years old) for which they had a mortgage of $50 a month. They didn't realize, not being in the market, how much prices had gone up.
I don't refuse to believe that wages are a fraction of what they were, I know. I don't know anyone in my generation who believes what you stated above, except for Republicans. Most of us were working when wages stopped going up. We, too were caught in that web.
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Does this atmosphere, this feeling in the air, remind you any of the late Sixties...? [View all]
kentuck
Jul 2013
OP
Feels more like the twilight years of the USSR, slowly the conditions getting harsher
Katashi_itto
Jul 2013
#33
To say nothing about the secret off-budget programs. How many billions there? We'll never know.
AAO
Jul 2013
#94
Can we have a Great Society without war and surveillance? Seems like the Dem leadership want both.
Erose999
Jul 2013
#21
In a perfect world, yes.But I'll take imperfect Dems over Repubs any day. n/t
displacedtexan
Jul 2013
#24
It's interesting that in the first Presidential election that 18-20-year-olds
Art_from_Ark
Jul 2013
#116
Well, if we complain too loudly about our Constitutional rights being stripped away...
Maedhros
Jul 2013
#81
We can count our "friends" in the house and senate lately on one hand. And still have fingers left.
Erose999
Jul 2013
#20
My friend...some of the things I have been hearing in the back country
nadinbrzezinski
Jul 2013
#111
No, not at all. Then there were two things we do not have now, Unity and Unifiers.
1-Old-Man
Jul 2013
#35
in the 60's a couple of kids with minimum wage jobs could have shared a flat in the village
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2013
#41
I agree. Plus the viscious clampdown on dissent from the prig Woodrow Wilson. Seems
byeya
Jul 2013
#65
Not at all. If people march for voting rights it will. LGBTs stood strong and changed America.
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#95
I was there. I agree, more mid than late. Just warming up the engines still.
bemildred
Jul 2013
#125
Nope, in fact just the opposite. Back then they actually talked to each other face to face
1-Old-Man
Jul 2013
#127