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A small thought

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I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna tell the truth. I just got off my yearly (sometimes semiyearly) fit where I start to thinking about the 50's and cry for a 45 minutes or so wishing I could've lived in the 50's and wondering where it all went wrong. I've had them ever since I was very young and I'll probably have them until the day that I die. But, I got to thinking about the term "summer of love" that's used to describe the 60's. If that was a summer, then the 50's were definitely a spring. And the world wars and the Depression were most definitely a winter. But if the summer was in the 60's, where did the fall come? I'd say it was in the 90's when we started fooling around in the middle east. And all winters have a first snow, and I'd say that the first snow, in the grand scheme of things, was 9/11. The previous winter lasted about 30 years. I hope for the sake of the US that the winter we're in right now doesn't last another 15, and that it doesn't take another world war to bring us out of it. And I hope that we can muster the values and morals like that of the 50's that were responsible for creating that idyllic decade. We certainly aren't going to do it arguing about bathrooms and fighting for rights that don't exist. I hope it gets better, because I don't know if I can handle it getting worse. I swear to God that we need another Joe McCarthy to shock everybody out of all this liberal, spineless, valueless, immoral, socialist, communist bullshit. I'm just afraid that it might be too late. Just a thought, I know it isn't much, but it's all I have.

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Dear me, dear me, I am hyperventilating and moaning for a safe space after seeing the word "thought" (eek eek eek) in your post title.

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I grew up in the 1940s and 1950s, and it really isn't a myth that things were more free and more civil then. Even slums were safer and more livable then -- which I know because I grew up in one until 1952, with a school that was almost 100 years old and had the 3d Ave "El" tracks roaring past the windows at frequent intervals. But kids, both black and white, played (and fought) together in the (concrete) schoolyard; kids could go out to play all day all over the neighborhood without supervision, as long as we were home by dinnertime; no one had much money but no one thought this was unusual; and although there were gangs, they pretty much fought with each other and left the rest of us alone. No one ever got mugged, as far as I can remember, because someone was always watching, i.e., minding everyone's business and ready to question strangers and chase away troublemakers.

I might add that my elementary school had a "bad kids" class -- for kids who talked back to the teacher. We used to tiptoe past the closed door of that class, whispering speculations about what went on inside. To do more than talk back was simply unthinkable.

Can we go back to that kind of society? Probably not. Too many generations have passed; few are left who actually remember that kind of life, rather than having read or heard about it; too many have now been brainwashed into not even wanting it. Sorry to be so pessimistic. As my friends Of A Certain Age and I often say to each other, "I'm glad I'm old -- but I'm afraid I'm not old enough."

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what a delightful euphemism, nowadays, we've become the 'class of bad kids', whispering speculations about what goes on behind the closed doors of our benevolent government. To talk back is simply unthinkable, racist, homophobic, islamaphobic, xenophobic (what has a fictional TV character have to do with this, anyway?), misogynic, supremacist, etcetracist.
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Report to the nearest re-education facility. Bring warm clothes.

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The 1960's is the well today's leaders sprang from, most notably, The Queen of Drones:

Image Liberalism 101 Lesson 113:

In the 1960's Liberal Progressive Socialists put as many of Amerika's families on the dole as possible, replacing fathers with a check from the government and fracturing families. We increased taxes on those we did not put on the dole forcing stay at home mothers to work to make up the loss of income that the taxes represented creating “latch key kids” and fracturing families.

In the 1970's Liberal Progressive Socialists demonized corporal punishment and promoted “No Fault” divorces, fracturing families and threatening them if they dared to discipline their children.

In the 1980's Liberal Progressive Socialists created the “Year of the Child” and promoted their “Self Esteem” whether or not the children had done anything worthy of esteem.

Now, decades later, when you see the cretins that Liberal Progressive Socialist policy has turned Amerika's children into, remember that we did it “for the children”.

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There is this theory I have, "Peak Korrectness".

Once you have a population of which 50 % is one of the following:

1. government employee,
2. unionised,
3. on the dole
4. muslim immigrant, ...

you can no longer lose elections.

The roadmap for every Utopian Elitist politician (like Angela Merkel or Bernie Sanders) is to make sure the population of your country reaches "Peak Korrectness" as soon as possible.

Once "PK" is reached, the general short-sightedness of the average human will make sure all these four subcultures will surely vote for the Utopian Elitists. And thus, society will keep spiralling down until a collapse occurs (failed state, or a new Hitler or Stalin taking over).

Then the British and the Americans come to save the day. O wait, that will not happen anymore... Well, no hope for Europe I guess?

But at least we had a good time right!

Greetings, Minitrue

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With the danger of repeating myself: a roadmap for all Utopian Elitist politicians tryin to make the world a "Korrekter" place:

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