Ok... I'm Doubling Down... No Poll... Can We Just Admit That Bi-Partisanship Is Dead And Gone ???

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35. People on this site tend to view things from a very white, straight, middle class perspective.

We forget just how many oppressed people have been suffering underneath these regimes. This is why FDR is hailed as a hero of the liberals, despite the fact that he was a part of the elite that used tactics designed to minimize social change in a time of massive social upheaval. He reined in the socialist movements and blunted much of their effectiveness in affecting change. There is a reason many on this site refer to the 60s and 70s as an incredible time, because it was: if you were straight and white and male. Even straight, white, and female to some extent. Life was drastically different for those who were different: it was not easy to be black in the 50s and 60s, and it still isn't today. It wasn't a great place to be if you were gay. You were pretty much fucked if you were a black lesbian. Things have gotten better, but we forget that most of what was so "incredible" about the economic booms after world war ii only applied to a relatively small chunk of the population. Everyone else was too busy dealing with being attacked, being desperately poor, dying from a cureless disease, etc., to really enjoy the prosperity and middle class boom.

Yeah, it won't be forgotten by those who experienced it. I only hope that the rest of us can remember it.