Were the 1950’s - 1970’s the Best Decades?

[leftwinger]

I can afford a home and two vehicles on one income....

Enjoy your bugs snakes possums and humidity. With your Police and Ambulence an hour away. Enjoy plucking your chickens. Be sure to cook them past pink.

 

[leftwinger]

Another simple one from 1983. Girls absolutely swooned over this one and Sting too.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Just compare to what you get today.

Music.
Think of all the groups you still hear today.

Sports.
Think of all the players in those decades.

Personal welfare.
Common for lower class families to own homes. With one income.

Health.
Look at any picture of crowds in the 50’s - 70’s.
Few fat people.

Politics.
Left and Right disagreed. But both wanted America and its citizens to succeed.

Technology.
We went from everyone having phones to computers, internet, satellites, etc.

Work careers.
Very common to work in one company your entire career and get a pension.

Entertainment.
Think of all the shows and movies from those decades still around today.

Yay! Another boomer thread shitting on ensuing generations. These are always healthy.

 

[whitehall]

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. We had Harry Truman's war in Korea in the early 50's at a cost of anywhere from 35,000 to 50,000 Americans and LBJ's war in Vietnam in the 70's at a cost of 50,000. The music wasn't that good either.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I saw the Beatles in 1966. My ticket cost $5.50.

I assume you’ve seen the movie Yesterday.

 

[my2¢]

The 50's and 60's life were good for me as a white kid. But it all started to go to hell beginning in '68 and by the 1970 things really sucked. Watergate, inflation, shitty cars struggling to adapt to new environmental and safety regulations. Oil embargos near the decade's start and end. The Double Nickel speed limit. Flights hijacked to Cuba and elsewhere. The Munich Olympics massacre. The situation with the Shah of Iran and resulting hostages.

Oh, I forgot. The Three Mile Island nuclear incident. That one caused the company where I worked to change its name from Industrial Nucleonics. Anything "nuclear" became the opposite of trendy.

 

[Mr Natural]

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. We had Harry Truman's war in Korea in the early 50's at a cost of anywhere from 35,000 to 50,000 Americans and LBJ's war in Vietnam in the 70's at a cost of 50,000. The music wasn't that good either.

And then there was The Draft.

You kids today can thank us Boomers for ending the slavery known as The Draft.

 

[Blaster]

My dad grew up in the 50's and recalls that decade with fondness. Americans loved President Eisenhower and treated one another with respect.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I think the consensus here is that our civilization is in decline. Yes, there’s been economic declines in the past which have greatly impacted generations, but those declines were all economic related.

This is an across the board decline we are in.

 

[Blaster]

We are in moral decline.

 

[Moonglow]

Enjoy your bugs snakes possums and humidity. With your Police and Ambulence an hour away. Enjoy plucking your chickens. Be sure to cook them past pink.

I do indeed while I grow veggies, weed, berries, and nutz that I pay nothing for..

 

[Moonglow]

We are in moral decline.

We have never had morals..They did a good job at pretending we had morals but still they had no morals...

 

[Mr Natural]

And in 50 years from now, These will be the “Good Old Days “.

 

[Moonglow]

And in 50 years from now, These will be the “Good Old Days “.

Indeed, probably a golden era....

 

[jknowgood]

Fuck no!

The 80's all the way baby!

I cannot believe I agree with you on something. Need to play the lottery.

 

[LeftofLeft]

If you were white, those were really good decades.

Many people will tell you and live like nothing has changed today compared to those decades. Instead of celebrating progress, we hear the ills of white privilege and the existence of systemic racism and oppression.

If you were Black in the 50s and 60s, you were more likely to live in a 2-parent household with a working father and you were more likely to graduate high school…. All of this despite lack of civil rights and being subject to outright racism.

How and why is it that the passage of the Civil Rights and Great Society legislations we as a nation experienced a decline in the two-black parent household, a spike in out of wedlock children, increase in welfare, and struggles in education??

Seems to be an unnecessary, tragic tradeoff.

 

[sartre play]

Being a Boomer it was absolutely great being a child in the 1950s, a teenager/young adult in the 1960s (except for that Vietnam thingy) and starting a family and career in the 1970s.

I wouldn't trade that life timeline for any other in the history of the world.

UNBELIVABLE, Except for that VIETNAM THINGY?

 

[BS Filter]

I assume you’ve seen the movie Yesterday.

Nope.

 

[FranklinRoosevelt_FTW]

I can afford a home and two vehicles on one income....

Homes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average American

Home prices have jumped so much that Americans must pay a third of their income on housing, according to one study.

www.cbsnews.com

That’s what Biden blm radical feminists gets us..along with neocon policy


Trumps economy was much better for the middle class

We have record crime waves across the country record homelessness in this country under Joe.

 

[skews13]

Just compare to what you get today.

Music.
Think of all the groups you still hear today.

Sports.
Think of all the players in those decades.

Personal welfare.
Common for lower class families to own homes. With one income.

Health.
Look at any picture of crowds in the 50’s - 70’s.
Few fat people.

Politics.
Left and Right disagreed. But both wanted America and its citizens to succeed.

Technology.
We went from everyone having phones to computers, internet, satellites, etc.

Work careers.
Very common to work in one company your entire career and get a pension.

Entertainment.
Think of all the shows and movies from those decades still around today.

And that was because of the largest middleclass economic expansion in history. All due to New Deal policies, and taxes.

In those decades, workers pay increased at a faster pace than company CEO's did. Companies avoided paying the higher tax rates by reinvsting into their companies for employee pensions.

This is how a one income earner, mainly the father, was able to support a family, by a home and put kids in college.

Speaking of which, college was free in many cases, especially tate colleges, and the for profit colleges were affordable for a middle income family.

This all changed with the Reagan era, and the end of anti trust laws, tax rates, and regulations that the country did just fine under during the 1950s-1970s.

The national debt was less than $1 trillion. Every decade since, with tax cuts for the rich, the repeal of anti trust laws, a regulatory policies, has seen that middleclass disappear, the rich become morbidly rich, and the national debt explode to over $30 trillion.

And the people that continue voting for that destruction of their own best interests continues still, after it has been clearly spelled out for them year after year.

You can't fix stupid.

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