re: The America I was sold and told about as a kid was a complete lie.

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Still can't believe people voted Obama without knowing his Commie past.

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his supporters referred to him as "the one we've been waiting for "

I’m much older than you

And sadly I agree with you

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Born in 82, I’m 41…

Whatever this shite show is does not line up with the world I remember growing up.

The political establishment in this once great place have rendered it unrecognizable.

Let’s not kids ourselves… they’re all stupid puppets and the manipulators on top of the stage hate people like you and I.

ETA: the down votes can rain down for all I care. The truth hurts.

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you should watch the men who built America episode on how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and JP Morgan held so much power in early America that they bought William McKinley the presidency. Unluckily for them he was assassinated and the guy that replaced him went on a monopoly busting spree.

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you should watch the men who built America episode on how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and JP Morgan held so much power in early America that they bought William McKinley the presidency. Unluckily for them he was assassinated and the guy that replaced him went on a monopoly busting spree.

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Yea I watched that when it came out. Was eye opening.

America was a wonderful dream in the 50s-60s; at least for the largest number of people in the historical record. Freedom, security and prosperity was there for any hard working and honest citizen. Of course, the 'Jim Crow' stuff had to go, but even those citizens who were indeed 'oppressed'/discriminated against, were for the most part virtuous, honest, good parents and hardworking people.

I don't know about the city, but rural life was wonderful especially if one loved hunting, fishing, sports, community and all manner of folly under the sky.

It was Egalitarian Marxism that creeped in and began to undermine the foundations of freedom and merit based affluence. And of course, personal greed re our 'public servants' who realized they could prosper by handing out other people's money.

"The Fourth Turning" is a good Book to understand the cyclical aspects of cultural/political rise and fall.

It'll crash, we'll regroup and move forward. Likely with Jesus bailing us out on this one.

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America was a wonderful dream in the 50s-60s; at least for the largest number of people in the historical record. Freedom, security and prosperity was there for any hard working and honest citizen. Of course, the 'Jim Crow' stuff had to go, but even those citizens who were indeed 'oppressed'/discriminated against, were for the most part virtuous, honest, good parents and hardworking people.

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I lived in Bucktown/Metairie recently. My 92 year old neighbor still cut his grass with his shirt off and worked on his own truck.

Direct quote from him: “livin’ in N’awlins in the fift-uhs was as good as they say it was.”

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Born in 82, I’m 41…

Whatever this shite show is does not line up with the world I remember growing up.

The political establishment in this once great place have rendered it unrecognizable.

Let’s not kids ourselves… they’re all stupid puppets and the manipulators on top of the stage hate people like you and I.

ETA: the down votes can rain down for all I care. The truth hurts.

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Sounds like some personal stuff. I might be able to help. And I don't mean that in a bad way.

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Honest TuneHonest Tune

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Born 1976. It will be our generation that makes a change if there ever were to be one, and we are capable of doing it. We are the last hope. Don't give up. Keep plucking away.

Again, I do believe our generation is the last chance of keeping things somewhat in order. I will give some born in the 90's have a chance to make a impact. 2000-to now? Don't hold your breath.

I grew up on being disciplined by my parents. I didn't agree with them some of the time, but now I see what they were trying to show me and that I wasn't making good decisions. If I did something bad, I had to pay the piper. That meant being disciplined. I could go outside and pick my own switch or mama or daddy would go do it for me. They never beat me. They just put something in my mind that made me know right from wrong and it stuck with me. They kept their children safe. Discipline is the only way to do it. That is what's lacking today.

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nd LBJ wasn’t the starting point.

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He damn sure put the icing on the cake. He started what is happening today.

The way he handled things, and I can say I heard it from someone who actually knew him... His wife lived in Billingsley, Alabama for periods of time, because of family here. I know most every old person that is still alive that was around Lady Bird and LBJ. He DID start the push to get the black vote on thier side and it still works till today. He basically was saying they were too stupid to think for themselves. He could round all of them up and they would vote democrat. This is not me (it's from LBJ). This is what I was told also from the small town 15 miles from where I live and where Lady Bird visited.

'I'll Have Those N*****s Voting Democratic for 200 Years'

That is your democratic party today. They followed his rule.

He is the reason you have so much diversity today.