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In reply to the discussion: Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden. [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I'm just not seeing the point of bringing up a past that can't be changed that bares no relation to how things are today.
50 years ago was good and bad in a lot of ways. In 1963, for instance, one could work as a clerk in a drug store yet still be able to afford a home, a car, have a wife that didn't work and more children than couples normally have today. We had strong unions that even Republicans supported, people were valued as employees, we didn't send our jobs overseas or import foreign workers to do them, we didn't have an epidemic of homeless people, the wealthy were taxed at a FAR higher rate than the bloodsuckers are today, monied interest trying to bribe politicians for laws tailored to them was called bribery rather than lobbying, adults behaved like adults, people were much more civil and courteous to one another, there weren't dozens of crazed people with guns or bombs conducting mass murders, no drug epidemic, good public schools, people were actually proud to pay taxes, the media did what it was designed by the founders to do by being government watch keepers, we had no opinion in news reporting, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather were anchors that acted adult rather than the screaming nuts that shout over each other today, etc., etc., etc.
Here's something that a DUer posted in another thread that should blow anyone's mind in how different in a good way we were just a mere seven years before 1963...
In some ways we've gotten better, but in other ways that effect far more people we've gotten so much worse.