Over the decades, America has changed. Hell, the demographics ALONE show that. More people of color, for instance. Fewer people who are white.
Let's look at the changes that we've seen in society that have necessitated, even forced, changes of mind:
It used to be that...
Blacks were considered 3/5ths of a (white) human being.
Mixed-race marriages weren't allowed.
Gay marriages weren't allowed.
"The Gay" was something one never talked about, much less came out about.
We had ONE big-ass enemy as a country, known to one and all as the Soviet Union. THAT changed.
We used to have what was called the Common Market in Europe. THAT changed. And because of Brexit, the European Union is changing AGAIN.
We used to have segregated schools. As policy.
Women used to have to resort to coat-hangers and back-alley abortion providers to end a pregnancy.
There were no contraceptives.
Women weren't in the workplace. We used to call it the "pink collar" workers - who were manicurists, secretaries, and nurses and teachers, and that was pretty much it.
No woman was a CEO. Now there are many.
No Black person was a CEO. Now there are many.
Latinos were almost exclusively known as migrant farm workers.
Blacks couldn't vote.
Women couldn't vote.
NOBODY could vote - til they were 21.
The President of the United States was always an old or middle-aged white guy.
The minimum wage was $2.50 an hour.
There was NO "Information Age."
The "Rust Belt" wasn't. There were viable factories that featured well-paid workers who could raise their families and afford college for the kids.
ONE paycheck COULD support a family.
Dad was the one who went out to work, while Mom stayed home, and those were basically the options.
You could count the number of women in elected office pretty much on the fingers of one hand. Actually used to be that ALL the EVERYBODIES in elected office ANYWHERE - were men-only. Specifically white-men-only.
The Pope did NOT acknowledge a changing world or changing times. It took awhile for the Vatican to acknowledge that Galileo was right.
The Pope did not acknowledge "The Gay." Now (and ONLY now) we have one who asks - "who am I to judge?" when questions about gays come up.
We hadn't left the planet to land humans on the moon.
It took all day to fly from Chicago to New York, with multiple stops.
There was no such thing as jet travel.
There wasn't even propeller travel.
There were no nukes.
There were no vaccines. But there were polio victims everywhere.
There was no AIDS.
There was no recognition that AIDS was a health crisis and not "God's Revenge."
We once believed that the Sun, stars, and planets revolved around the Earth.
We once believed the world was flat - that if you reached what you'd seen as the horizon, that was the end of the world and you fell off.
The list goes on.
CHANGE HAPPENS. There is new information that arises, and arrives. And woe to us when our leaders won't acknowledge that or adjust, or expand their thinking and their worldview to address, adapt to, and work within those changes.
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