The 50s to early 60s was good stuff

[ginscpy]

a gentler more decent more moral time

 

[uscitizen]

Korean War, Vietnam War. Polio, Thalamide Babys...

 

[Emma]

Korean War, Vietnam War. Polio, Thalamide Babys...

Let's not forget ol' Jim Crow. I think that's what he's really pining for.

 

[007]

Korean War, Vietnam War. Polio, Thalamide Babys...

... and far less government and far more freedoms. It was great.

 

[rightwinger]

a gentler more decent more moral time

You must have not lived back then

Rampant political assasinations, race riots, unjust war, lynchings

 

[rightwinger]

Korean War, Vietnam War. Polio, Thalamide Babys...

... and far less government and far more freedoms. It was great.

Freedom if you were a white, heterosexual male

 

[ginscpy]

People left their doors unlocked in the 50s......................

 

[ginscpy]

Petula Clark sang about Downtown in 1965.

Big hit back then.

Werent low-lifes loiotewring around back in thoise days with bad intentions,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[bobcollum]

Oh, Ginny, you just don't get it.

You know that feel-goodery of the 50's and 60's led this country down the path of over-complacency, and in turn toward it's own downfall?

 

[rightwinger]

50s and 60s were great for music, great films, cars, sports and space exploration

Socially and politically they left a lot to be desired

 

[zonly1]

Korean War, Vietnam War. Polio, Thalamide Babys...

and azzhats like you

 

[jillian]

a gentler more decent more moral time

unless you were black or female!

yeah, hell of a time.

 

[Unkotare]

a gentler more decent more moral time

Your belt is buckled right up around your armpits, isn't it?

 

[editec]

That was a period of hope and growth. The American dream actually seemed attainable back then.

That is the primary difference compared to the USA today.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The time was amoral, violent toward minoritys, hostile toward women, and awful to our "enemies" in other countries.

a gentler more decent more moral time

 

[rightwinger]

Great cars

 

[JakeStarkey]

Great baseball: Dodgers, Yankees, Giants.

Great distance running: breaking the 4min mile.

Great surfing!

Not a good era for women and minorities.

 

[Katzndogz]

The 50s and 60s were a much more decent time. No time period is going to be universally beneficial to everyone. But, by far blacks were better off then they are now. Even with the terrible burdens of discrimination and jim crow laws they were better off. They had strong intact families, they had integrity and honor. With a dubious and artificial sense of equality mandated by affirmative action, they got failing schools, drugs, gang warfare, and a murder rate that would make any African country proud. They got generational welfare and abandonment of fathers to their children. By no stretch of even the most active imagination can anyone say that blacks are better off today then they were in the 50s and 60. In the 50s and 60s a black boy was pretty much assured that he would someday be a man, That's not true today. Our cities have become killing fields of mostly black people killing other black people.

This is progress? Not to any reasonable stretch of delusion.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yup, blacks continued to get beaten and lynched.

Yup, being jim crow'd and discriminated and lynched was great.

Nope, you go down to the black churches and tell them they are worse off than in the 50s, they will beat your lily white ass, you stupid, ignorant idiot. And St Peter and St Paul going to hold you up while they do it.

 

[rightwinger]

The 50s and 60s were a much more decent time. No time period is going to be universally beneficial to everyone. But, by far blacks were better off then they are now. Even with the terrible burdens of discrimination and jim crow laws they were better off. They had strong intact families, they had integrity and honor. With a dubious and artificial sense of equality mandated by affirmative action, they got failing schools, drugs, gang warfare, and a murder rate that would make any African country proud. They got generational welfare and abandonment of fathers to their children. By no stretch of even the most active imagination can anyone say that blacks are better off today then they were in the 50s and 60. In the 50s and 60s a black boy was pretty much assured that he would someday be a man, That's not true today. Our cities have become killing fields of mostly black people killing other black people.

This is progress? Not to any reasonable stretch of delusion.

JFK
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
RFK