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Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman
I agree. This country is going down the crapper. You can erode only so much of the foundation of an instution before the whole thing comes crashing down.
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Postman, I agree things are bad now. But then when things seem bad I try and get some perspective and remember how bad things were during the 60s. Civil rights movements, Kent State, the Cuban Missile crisis when the world was just minutes away from an all out nuclear war, JFK shot, MLK shot, Veitnam, etc.
Before that there was the Great Depression, and before that was the Civil War when we were literally killing each other. Before that, there was slavery, and taking N. America from the Indians.
So what is so bad about these times Postman that we say NOW our foundation is eroding? Randolph, in light of all these events throughout the history of the US, do you think it ever was America the Beautiful?
I'm trying to quantify what is it that made America great, and ask is that really being threatened now?