(09-05-2017, 11:12 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-02-2017, 11:30 PM)wrong_box Wrote: That's not the point of my posts either...

The point of my posts has been that every generation makes changes...Change is not always a bad thing, but a lot of what and how things change is not good...

It's not good that the racial divide is growing...

It's not good that schools teach less actual curriculum and omit certain things because they are ugly parts of our history..

It's not good that hate groups are springing up all over and rioting and such under the guise of protesting...

It's not good that the hate groups can call for the killing of cops and no one is trying to stop it...

It's not good when Congress and the people are focusing more on trying to find things the POTUS is or has done wrong than they do trying to pass laws...

It's not good when young people have no idea what gender they are or parents start telling kindergarten age kids that they can pick which gender they want to be...

It's not good when corporate greed shapes the work force...

These are the kind of things I am talking about in my posts, not just because things are changing from generation to generation...

1. Yesterday was the anniversary of the integration of public schools. The idea that racial relationships are worse today than they were in ya'll childhoods is silly. We have a political movement using race to cover their intentions, but the overall relationships have improved and continue to do so.

2. You're old enough to know that history is written by the winners and they often gloss over their own foibles. You've got people from your generation in this very forum who insist that slavery wasn't the primary cause of the War of Northern Aggression and that FDR ended the Great Depression. Let's not lose sight of the simple fact that every generation has false narratives of the way things were.

3. Hate groups today are LESS active than they were in the last 50 years. When the Klan rallied in your day they had manpower, wealth, and sometimes the law in their favor, today they are pretty much just a bunch of yahoos confined to the kid's table by the population who've grown past their idiocy. Antifa is not a "hate" group, they are a political group using the same tactics Commie Lefties have used for more than 100 years.

4. It's like the 60s never happened for you.

5. It's best when Congress is occupied with things other than passing laws. Gridlock is the best concept the Founders put in the Constitution and we need more of it.

6. I agree on the gender thing, but the other side will tell you it's no different that homosexuality or inter-racial marriage, both huge social taboos of your generation.

7. Have any idea why the Gilded Age was bad? When the Military-Industrial Complex came to power? Who created the workplace law that we all now toil under? It sure wasn't the Millennials. 

All in all, the things you and JIB are bemoaning aren't that different from your own lives, you simply have a different perspective on them now that you're older. That's what bugs me, the rose-colored glasses effect of old age. I really see it in my parents as they talk about how great things were in their schools and neighborhoods growing up, knowing full well they were sheltered from the difficulties of life in the 1950s.

wow talk about  missing the point on everythig....I said the racial divide  had gotten better thru the years,  but now it's growing apart (getting worse again)...I dont believe slavery was the single cause for the civil war...it was about the federal government interfering with the states right to govern themselves...congress sucks at everything and needs to concentrate on things that will make us grow and prosper..JIB and I have both acknowledged that every generation has changes, it's just that the direction this generation is headed is driving this country backwards, back to like the 60's and 70's..Black only college graduations, BLM anti everything white and rioting and looting has replaced protesting

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