Nope beg to differ.
Remember my Dad had to leave MA to work in Shitcago in order to pay the mortgage.
Even though the country was in the dumps there wasn’t this pervasive evil that seems to be in the air now.
At one level yes...
I remember my old man having to drive to Canada with a truck load of Jerry Cans to get gas for the farm.
Filthy hippies and cults all over VT (woodstock refugees) doing unspeakable things to kids. Bernie became Mayor of Burlington.
Commies on the march everywhere.
Cars didn't start the day they were new.
Japan was going to own us all.
Ted Kennedy was going to be President and destroy America with his 'tard Jameson-fueled anti-gun socialist bullshit.
So... it's bad now. Really bad. But we see more shit because we have more communications media. Back then, we at least had an 'almost' unbiased media (they hated Reagan) and were feeling their oats after killing Nixon. But the weren't as bad.
Then again, I'm the world's greatest optimist. I think our greatest days are ahead of us.
But if worthless commies come along and try and take my optimism away, I'm also not going to be a very nice person to those who didn't leave me and my types alone. ;-)
So there is that.
But I'm optimistic. America never succumbs to minority idiocy. We always bounce back. It's just not always easy. Think about how guys like us would have been communicating in 1933... Would not have been pretty.
Chin up America. Don't lose hope. We are gonna be ok. Or, if not... it will be a lot of fun! For those of us who know how to have fun in the suck.
Cheers,
Sirhr