What is keeping idiots like you from living back in the glory days? All people like you do is whine because America is changing and there isn't one GD thing you can do about it...

Idiots like you need to pitch in and by you a piece of property and have your own little utopia compound with a 8' electric fence around it all and watch reruns of Leave It To Beaver, Father Knows Best, Donna Reed, I love Lucy, Dragnet and anything else that makes you happy. All your houses could have white picket fences and just think of the glorious church you bible thumpers could have. You could pray your little hearts to all the fictional characters and places all day if you like. After a spell you idiots would find something to bitch about since that's all you do here. :thumbup: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I am only 62 but I had a taste of what America was like before the coup d'état in 63. People were alive in that you had no idea what was going to come out of their mouths but it was going to be witty, funny or provoke thought. Every other person in my parents generation could play an instrument well. Social interaction was more than showing each other pictures of what you had for dinner. When the President spoke to the citizens it was with respect to all and down to none. Black musicians were the source for the most fascinating music you will ever hear not potty mouth nursery rhyme to a simple beat. In junior high you could obsess over the opposite sex without fear of offending anyone. Food was not as processed and family dinners happened every day. Musical artist earned there way to the top by popular demand not a platinum record deal done at Warner Brothers before anyone even knows who the artist is. I could go on and on but now is not the time to write a book. I would like to hear others talk about the qualities of life in America pre 1963.

Well, in the 50's when rock music was really getting it on, that's about the only thing that was. You couldn't get laid to save yourself, rapists were seldom prosecuted and child molesters were laughed at, "Chester the Molester" was a joke.

Teachers still dealt out capital punishment on the kids with a ruler, thick paddle with holes drilled in it, or whatever else came to hand, and a lot of those teachers weren't wrapped too tight.

Wages were steadily getting better, tho, and our roads and other infrastructure were improving like crazy. Smog was only beginning to become a problem and it was still safe to swim in the ocean. The water was clear for many feet, not muddy brown from pollution like now.

America's Golden Age ended around 1971 but after WWII and up until then, things were mostly pretty good and getting better. Now we're in reverse again and have been ever since the Bush's and Clintons.

A lot more could be said but someone else will have to keep writing this.

"I certainly don't want to go back to that time in our history and a majority of people don't want to either."

Why not, it was a heck of a lot better then it is now. We didn't have to worry about the dollar collapsing like we do now. We didn't have to worry about a President that was ruling by decree rather then a semblance or lawful order and respect. JFK had a lot of faults, but he also had a lot of good ideas. Unfortunately he was shot for his ideas and we started down this road thanks in a large part to Johnson.
WOW! You're really out there aren't you. Abortion has actually gone down by 65% in the last five years. Before Rowe v Wade in was still done but it was back alley done with a coat hanger. Lost a lot of women and girls that way. But I suppose you are one of those pro forced birth people that think it's just fine to make a woman have that baby even if she may die in the process and if she survives she's on her own. Don't matter that the father left her as soon as she said she was pregnant. Not his fault.
The gay people just want the same rights you enjoy. I bet you even know a gay person or two.
We didn't have abortions on demand and killing babies left and right. What is it, almost 58 million now? I'll bet you are just thrilled at that number. They called us baby killers when we came back from VN, but you have proven who the real baby killers are.

We did have problems back then and thanks to the progressives they have continued to this day. You got off to a good start in 1913 and have been escalating things ever since. You have taken religion out of school and almost every part of our lives. I don't care that you don't believe, that is a freedom you have and I would never think of changing that. You do not however have a right to take it away from me and the millions of people that do believe. I really don't care what your thoughts are on religion. I have mine and so do millions of others. We also have thoughts about you and your non beliefs, but we mostly keep that to ourselves. We never force things on you, but you love to force your ideas on us.

We didn't have to worry about gays getting in our face ever time we turned around, but thanks to your gay President, we now have that problem. You force your life style on us and don't care how we feel about it. In fact you don't care about anything except that if it feels good, do it. You don't care if it is legal, just get your courts to change the laws. You don't care if it is moral, just change morality. In fact, you don't care about anything as long as you are happy. The fact that you are bringing the rest of the country down to your level only encourages you to go to farther extremes.

In short, you make me sick. You don't care what you do to this country and that shows in everything you do. The only thing you care about is you. Nothing else matters. Well, I hope you are happy, because you are the ones that are going to suffer the most in the end.

I am only 62 but I had a taste of what America was like before the coup d'état in 63. People were alive in that you had no idea what was going to come out of their mouths but it was going to be witty, funny or provoke thought. Every other person in my parents generation could play an instrument well. Social interaction was more than showing each other pictures of what you had for dinner. When the President spoke to the citizens it was with respect to all and down to none. Black musicians were the source for the most fascinating music you will ever hear not potty mouth nursery rhyme to a simple beat. In junior high you could obsess over the opposite sex without fear of offending anyone. Food was not as processed and family dinners happened every day. Musical artist earned there way to the top by popular demand not a platinum record deal done at Warner Brothers before anyone even knows who the artist is. I could go on and on but now is not the time to write a book. I would like to hear others talk about the qualities of life in America pre 1963.

Kennedy called the Federal Reserve "a plot to destroy American's freedom." He actually gave an EO replacing Federal Reserve Notes with US notes, for which the Congress, rather than the Fed, was responsible. After his assassination, one of LBJs very first acts was to rescind that EO, and replace it with one of his own re-instating Federal Reserve Notes. Most people don't realize that JFK disliked LBJ, who was foisted off on him as VP by the even then, left wing of the Democrats. JFK opposed heavy troop deployment to Vietnam. He also opposed gun control. (Little known fact: LBJ's VP, Hubert Humphrey, the Liberal's Liberal, also opposed the Gun Control Act of '68 as being unConstitutional. LBJ pushed it through. We also have him and a Democrat Congress to thank for robbing Social Security.