(09-05-2017, 01:14 PM)wrong_box Wrote:

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

it's just that the direction this generation is headed is driving this country backwards