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re: When Did America’s Decline Begin?
Posted on 5/7/23 at 5:28 am to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 5/7/23 at 5:28 am to SaintlyTiger88
Early 60’s when the welfare rolls were expanded to buy Democrat politicians voting.
Made for a sit on your arse, big brother will take care of you slice of population that grew very fast.
Made for a sit on your arse, big brother will take care of you slice of population that grew very fast.
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Posted on 5/7/23 at 5:30 am to SaintlyTiger88
When states couldn't secede, as the Constitution gave them the right to do.
Posted on 5/7/23 at 5:32 am to mahdragonz
take your head out of your arse, then you can see the decline
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:35 am to fr33manator
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LBJ and his damned "great society" put a long acting poison in this country. The effects get worse by the day
THIS
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:41 am to SEClint
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September 11, 2001
Party was over and everyone got in everyone's shite. Politics became foremost importance and the music industry that had been going to shite since 1998, fully went to shite.
Damn, I would have typed this word for word.
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:43 am to SaintlyTiger88
#1 (1964) when the Welfare System was signed into law.
#2 (2008) Obama being elected as President.
#2 (2008) Obama being elected as President.
This post was edited on 5/7/23 at 6:47 am
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:50 am to SaintlyTiger88
A major case was the Mike Brown shooting
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:50 am to Wally Sparks
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Gang crime was much worse 30+ years ago.
FIFY
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:50 am to SaintlyTiger88
When the Europeans arrived and started claiming shite as their own.
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:54 am to SaintlyTiger88
When boomers started having political clout that they still haven’t relinquished after 65 years.
And Sept 11, 2001.
And Obama’s election.
And Sept 11, 2001.
And Obama’s election.
This post was edited on 5/7/23 at 6:55 am
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:55 am to SaintlyTiger88
quote:
So when did we become a country that was no longer the greatest?
Boomers and the aftermath of the WWII generation.
Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:57 am to SaintlyTiger88
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When Did America’s Decline Begin?
In the late 80s when fight ro remove prayer from the schools began.
They told us that's all they wanted.
Sound familiar?
Posted on 5/7/23 at 7:02 am to SuperSaint
This is a message board meant for discussion right? Well, if I have some shite to say I am going to say it and not keep it simple (which I should because most the idiots here can't comprehend anything more than 3 sentences.
Posted on 5/7/23 at 7:11 am to ElderTiger
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Boy, the way Glenn Miller played
songs that made the hit parade
Guys like me we had it made
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state
ev'rybody pulled his weight
gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
People seemed to be content
fifty dollars paid the rent
freaks were in a circus tent
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin
go to watch the Dodgers win
Have yourself a dandy day
that cost you under a fin
Hair was short and skirts were long
Kate Smith really sold a song
I don't know just what went wrong
those were the days
Posted on 5/7/23 at 7:44 am to fr33manator
100%
Posted on 5/7/23 at 7:57 am to SaintlyTiger88
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When did the United States of America begin its decline?
Good question, but to really get an answer you only have to specify when it was at its apex. The decline began Apex plus 1 day.
It is increasing at an alarming rate IMO.
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My position is that WW2 era America was the peak, we were the greatest country in the world
Pre WW2 America was a sleeping giant, WW2 awakened our industrial might. Ultimately, we switched from a producing economy to a consuming economy and our industrial prowess began to decline as the cost of producing goods in the US shifted manufacturing to other markets.
There was also a segment of the US population that was marginalized and often oppressed pre and post-WW2. I doubt they usually think America post WW2 was the apex of America (From a purely economic standpoint, it is difficult to argue that it was, though). Prior to that era, America was looked at as a nation of almost limitless opportunity but not necessarily as the greatest Western power, I would say Great Britain was probably viewed as such.
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So when did we become a country that was no longer the greatest?
I am not sure we still aren't or if we aren't who is? Or is it just a sort of logjam near the top?
Posted on 5/7/23 at 8:08 am to GreenRockTiger
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I encourage all of you to read CS Lewis
which books?
The Abolition of Man covers it, but it is pretty intense in the way that he writes indirectly about things and inserts a Christian message by using the concept of the Tao - he does this mainly to not scare off people who will just stop reading if they see something clearly Christian. The point of that book is mainly that if we let truth, real truth, be taken out of education and other aspects of society, man and society will basically be abolished. I'm reading it now, so I am sure I can add more later.
The Weight of Glory is a compilation of speeches or sermons that he gave, and I found that even though they were 80 years ago, several of them relate directly to now. Some also got deep into theology, which is interesting.
I also think everyone should read Mere Christianity, which came from a series of talks he did on the radio in the 40s during WWII, and he took time to write around each of the talks to build up the message more. Same as The Weight of Glory, the messages come from that time but so many of them relate directly to what we have seen happen recently.
Posted on 5/7/23 at 8:12 am to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 5/7/23 at 8:13 am to calcotron
In the Garden of Eden
And yes, I know that’s not in the United States.
And yes, I know that’s not in the United States.
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