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Making America Great Again
#11
You know, the Leave it to Beaver years.... Before Archie Bunker screwed it all up by saying on TV what people were hearing everyday in real life.
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#12
1945-1968
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#13
OK, I'll bite.

When a family could live comfortably on one income. When they could afford to take vacations. When the wage-earner had a good pension and could retire without working until s/he was 70. When there were good American production jobs. When people had good medical benefits, like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, covered by their employers.

So t-RUMP is going to bring jobs back here and restore pensions across the board to all workers? RIGHT.
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#14
His supporters don't (or refuse to) understand "You can't go home again."

That is, the "home" of the past you long for no longer exists. It's not a place you can go back to.
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#15
Deux is right, that America left you long ago.

I was a right in the middle of that era. As a teen, I could school and work (after a 90-minute bus trip) part time at the not so local Stop & Shop for the astounding benefit of $1.25/hr. So long as I lived at home and didn't need to pay for anything else I could save up enough to buy a 1953 Buick Super Convertible outright for a mere $300. No insurance, seatbelts or inspections needed.

I could then buy 18-28ยข a gallon gas and not worry about the 5-6 MPG average and cavort throughout New England listening to WooWoo Arnie Ginsberg at the Adventure Car Hop. Fun was stuffing 3 buddies in the trunk while buying two tickets at the Meadow Glen Drive In, better fun was leaving them there for the first 1/2 hour of whatever horrible movie was being shown.
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#16
Looking back from a white, middle-class perspective, I'd say the fifties were "great". Yeah, yeah, it's not true but it certainly feels true if you were a kid back then.
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#17
My guess would be some time before the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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#18
Obviously the only answer is when Pres. Ronald Reagan was in office.

$tevie wrote:
Looking back from a white, middle-class perspective, I'd say the fifties were "great". Yeah, yeah, it's not true but it certainly feels true if you were a white kid back then.

FTFY.
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#19
Speedy wrote:
Obviously the only answer is when Pres. Ronald Reagan was in office.

[quote=$tevie]
Looking back from a white, middle-class perspective, I'd say the fifties were "great". Yeah, yeah, it's not true but it certainly feels true if you were a white kid back then.

FTFY.
I had already covered white in my previous sentence. All the sentences in the post were related to each other.
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#20
Redundancy provides emphasis.

$tevie wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Obviously the only answer is when Pres. Ronald Reagan was in office.

[quote=$tevie]
Looking back from a white, middle-class perspective, I'd say the fifties were "great". Yeah, yeah, it's not true but it certainly feels true if you were a white kid back then.

FTFY.
I had already covered white in my previous sentence. All the sentences in the post were related to each other.
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