My favorite part: "My country isn't the way it used to be when I grew up, and I miss it so much." She admits to being 49. That means she was born ~1959. She was roughly 6 years old in 1965, amidst the battle for civil rights. That qualifies as "growing up", right?

RACIST!

People who yearn for the "way America was" obviously never picked up a book and didn't pay much attention during the 60s and 70s. They were a pretty shitty time, actually, full of problems ranging from war to terrible inflation to social unrest.

Exactly how I feel, especially when people look back to the fifties or the forties.  There was a risk of the entire world being englufed in war (and it largely was for awhile).  Those were some scary times, not to mention the coming Cold War with Russia.

In the fifties, racism was at its height, and the country was projecting a very superficial image of the stability of capitalism and the nuclear family with an endless stream of TV propaganda.  During those times, a man could still kill his wife and essentially get away with it since juries and courts were still relatively comfortable with the "pater familias" idea.  The fifties were so bad that in many ways they gave rise to the hedonism so many people detested in the sixties.

No time is inherently better than another, and anyone who thinks that some "golden age" in the past wasn't racked with problems too is ignoring the truth behind that era.

Weird coincidence they had a "Bullshit" on yesterday about the "good ole days".  Hilarious.

The 50's and 60's sucked.

Interracial marriage was still illegal (until 1967), and there was no intramarital rape law, so a man could rape his wife any time of the day and she'd legally have no right to say no. Every state had a spousal rape exemption, so if a man rapes his wife, he gets a slap on the wrist. Nebraska was the first state to remove this exemption in 1976. Today in 2008, spousal rape is finally recognized as a crime in all 50 states, but 33 treat it as a lesser crime than real rape. You can get 1 and a half years in jail instead of 14, even though it's much more psychologically traumatic.

And Little Richard was out there inventing rock and roll, but he had to sleep in his car when he played a show because the racist hotels wouldn't give him a room!

We had the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Immigration Act of 1924, favoring only immigrants from northern and western Europe, because it was our foreign policy to be racist and pick and choose our immigrants, UNTIL 1965.

And even in 1978 you could assassinate Harvey Milk and get away with it because YOU ATE TOO MANY TWINKIES. (Because the justice system turns a blind eye when you kill a homosexual.)



America gets better all the time, just really really really slowly, because it's a huge fucking mess.



Anybody who misses the good old days is a sexist, racist, heterosexist bigot.

Or they're a Christian fundamentalist and the only issue they care about is "family values," in which case they've interpreted every step of progress America has made as an attack on "family values" and they go crazier and crazier as the country gets better and better!!!

Or they weren't around then and get their entire idea of the 50's from leave it to Beaver.

I mean if Hogan's heroes was all i knew of WW2 i'd of wanted to be a german prisoner of war as a kid.

I still do.

Is that wrong?

This is my argument that if we let christian fundamentalist start to have their ways, i.e. illegal for gays to marry, etc, we will eventually end up with the our own christian taliban. Why can't people see that? Its the same logic and eventual result.

All you have to do is study Islamic history for the last couple hundred of years to see that same progression towards extremism.

Oh well, OBAMA FTW!!!

It's too bad WW2 wasn't more like Hogan's Heroes.

That show was (and still is) awesome.

We should have a reality TV show where all of these right and left wing nuts are put on an island together, and one of them is killed off each episode. We can give the one who survives some glorified public service position with no real power.

I think it's a shame WW2 wasn't more like bionic commando. That guy kicked hitler's ass!