1950 vs. 2020

[rightwinger]

What is better today than 1950

Entertainment
Sports
Communications
Civil Rights
Cars
Transportation

a woman can decide her own destiny & choose when or if she wants children.

at least for now.

Women also have many more career opportunities today than in 1950

 

[Devils_Advocate]

I’ll take 1950 any day. I know...I know...that automatically makes me a racist, sexist, and homophobic by the dim witted. Oh well, I’ll risk it.

America 1950 vs. America 2020
In 1950, Texaco Star Theatre, The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy were some of the most popular shows that Americans watched on television.

In 2020, a Netflix film entitled “Cuties” is so trashy and so disgusting that four states have sent a letter to Netflix asking for it to be removed because it is “fodder for those with criminal imaginations, serving to normalize the view that children are sexual beings.”

In 1950, television networks would not even show husbands and wives in bed together.

In 2020, “adult websites” get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

In 1950, people would greet one another as they walked down the street.

In 2020, Americans are too enamored with their cellphones to be bothered with actual human contact.

In 1950, gum chewing and talking in class were some of the major disciplinary problems in our schools.

In 2020, kids are literally gunning down police officers in the streets.

In 1950, people would make an effort to dress up and look nice when they would go out in public.

In 2020, most of the population has become utter slobs and “People of Walmart” has become one of our most popular memes.

In 1950, the typical woman got married for the first time at age 20 and the typical man got married for the first time at age 22.

In 2020, the typical woman gets married for the first time at age 27 and the typical man gets married for the first time at age 29.

In 1950, a lot of people would leave their homes and their vehicles unlocked because crime rates were so low.

In 2020, many that live in urban areas are deathly afraid of all the civil unrest that has erupted, and gun sales have soared to all-time record highs.

In 1950, Americans actually attempted to parent their children.

In 2020, we pump our kids full of mind-altering drugs and we let our televisions and our video games raise our children.

In 1950, Baltimore was one of the most beautiful and most prosperous cities on the entire planet.

In 2020, Baltimore regularly makes headlines because of all the murders that are constantly occurring. Of course the exact same thing could be said about many of our other major cities.

In 1950, 78 percent of all households in America contained a married couple.

In 2020, that figure has fallen below 50 percent.

In 1950, about 5 percent of all babies in the United States were born to unmarried parents.

In 2020, about 40 percent of all babies in the United States will be born to unmarried parents.

In 1950, new churches were regularly being opened all over the United States.

In 2020, it is being projected that 1 out of every 5 churches in the U.S. “could be forced to shut their doors in the next 18 months”, and the mayor of Lubbock, Texas just said that opening a new Planned Parenthood clinic is like starting a church.

In 1950, we actually had high standards for our elected officials, and people actually did research on the candidates before they cast their votes.

In 2020, more than 4,000 people in one county in New Hampshire voted for a “transsexual Satanic anarchist” in the Republican primary, and she is now the Republican nominee for sheriff in Cheshire County.

In 1950, children would go outside and play when they got home from school.

In 2020, our parks and our playgrounds are virtually empty and we have the highest childhood obesity rate in the industrialized world.

In 1950, front porches were community gathering areas, and people would regularly have their neighbors over for dinner.

In 2020, many of us don’t know our neighbors at all, and the average American watches more than five hours of television a day.

In 1950, Americans used words such as “knucklehead”, “moxie” and “jalopy”.

In 2020, new terms such as “nomophobia”, “peoplekind” and “social distancing” have been introduced into the English language.

In 1950, the very first credit card was issued in the United States.

In 2020, Americans owe more than 930 billion dollars on their credit cards.

In 1950, one income could support an entire middle class household.

In 2020, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and filed for unemployment, and more than half of all households in some of our largest cities are currently facing “serious financial problems”.

In 1950, the American people believed that the free market should govern the economy.

In 2020, most Americans seem to believe that the government in Washington and the Federal Reserve must endlessly “manage” the economy.

In 1950, “socialists” and “communists” were considered to be our greatest national enemies.

In 2020, most of our politicians in Washington have eagerly embraced socialist and communist policy goals.

In 1950, the U.S. Constitution was deeply loved and highly revered.

In 2020, anyone that actually admits to being a “constitutionalist” is considered to be a potential domestic terrorist.

In 1950, the United States loaned more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.

In 2020, the United States owes more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.

In 1950, the total U.S. national debt reached the 257 billion dollar mark for the first time in our history.

In 2020, we added 864 billion dollars to the national debt in the month of June alone. In other words, we added over three times more to the national debt in that one month than the total amount of debt that had been accumulated from the founding of our nation all the way to 1950.

In 1950, most Americans were generally happy with their lives.

In 2020, the suicide rate is at an all-time record high, and it has been rising every single year since 2007.
America 1950 vs. America 2020

Nah, even though it sucks the older I get the reality is if I went back in time to the 1950’s I would also hate it...

 

[Superbadbrutha]

First, blacks had it better in 1950 in almost every economic and societal factor than they do today.

Economically, blacks may have had more opportunities in the 1950s than today. Low skilled manufacturing jobs were in abundance. However, advancement beyond menial labor was generally not available to blacks.
There were few blacks in management and no blacks were allowed to supervise white workers. There were no blacks in mid or upper management.

To claim blacks had it better societally in the 1950s shows outright ignorance. In most of America they were treated as second class citizens and were restricted from public access

No. Blacks and whites were separated. Blacks had their own neighborhoods, schools, and businesses. Many were thriving. Of course, poverty still existed, as it does today. However, black children had both parents in the home, no drugs, no crime, no gangs, no prostitution, and public schools worked.

Separated but hardly equal.
As a whole, blacks did better economically because cities had large numbers of good paying low skill manufacturing jobs.
Blacks with good paying jobs bought houses, raised two parent families, didn’t have to resort to crime.

Once those jobs disintegrated, so did the black family structure.

You can focus on the bad while ignoring the good. We sure have a lot of bad in 2020.

It's hard not to focus on the bad when it would have affected you personally...

If you’re referring to black Americans, you might read the comments of Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell. Both black men who grew up during segregation. They prefer it to today.

Of course 2 bootlickers would prefer it.

 

[gipper]

First, blacks had it better in 1950 in almost every economic and societal factor than they do today.

Economically, blacks may have had more opportunities in the 1950s than today. Low skilled manufacturing jobs were in abundance. However, advancement beyond menial labor was generally not available to blacks.
There were few blacks in management and no blacks were allowed to supervise white workers. There were no blacks in mid or upper management.

To claim blacks had it better societally in the 1950s shows outright ignorance. In most of America they were treated as second class citizens and were restricted from public access

No. Blacks and whites were separated. Blacks had their own neighborhoods, schools, and businesses. Many were thriving. Of course, poverty still existed, as it does today. However, black children had both parents in the home, no drugs, no crime, no gangs, no prostitution, and public schools worked.

Separated but hardly equal.
As a whole, blacks did better economically because cities had large numbers of good paying low skill manufacturing jobs.
Blacks with good paying jobs bought houses, raised two parent families, didn’t have to resort to crime.

Once those jobs disintegrated, so did the black family structure.

You can focus on the bad while ignoring the good. We sure have a lot of bad in 2020.

It's hard not to focus on the bad when it would have affected you personally...

If you’re referring to black Americans, you might read the comments of Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell. Both black men who grew up during segregation. They prefer it to today.

Of course 2 bootlickers would prefer it.

Yeah...blacks have it GREAT in 2020.

Yet, 23% live in poverty, 45% of black children live in poverty, 70% are born without a father, drugs, gangs, crime, prostitution are rampant. Many fail to graduate high school and many who do, still can’t effectively read or write making them unemployable, thanks to a failing government school system.

 

[Gdjjr]

A whitewashed, scrubbed down version of milquetoast bland that glossed over history,

Still is in unconstitutional schools.

 

[Coyote]

I think the main point is...the 50's were great, for certain groups of people. I would not have liked it, as a woman.

The job gains women made during WW2 were all erased when men came back from the war, and old barriers reinstated as well as pay equities and perceptions of women and what they were allowed to do.

Not a golden age for women or minorities or gay people, but it was a prosperous positive age for all that.