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**Serereids** · 01-19-2011, 12:49 AM

You've got to ask yourself what was so different from the 50's-60's, than from immediately before and since.

Basically you've got the greatest generation at their peak. They grew up in the depression, and survived the war. Now that they were home they where building homes, having families, going to the Moon, building cars and highways, waging the Cold War, ect. The costs of the New Deal/Great Society didn't seem to be a big deal because, hey, look at all these kids. They knew what was real, they saw what really mattered during the war.

Of course in the 30's everyone was scared and cornered and not terribly rational. They wanted hope, and didn't much care about the long term costs. The 70's featured a bunch of spoiled and drug addled baby boomers who knew little of the struggles of their parents. If you go as far back as the 20's you find the first true urban generation who lack the natural protections of the self sufficient rural life. No doubt that is why the depression was so deep. Fast forward to the 80's and you've got baby boomers at their peak, living off the infrastructure their parents built, and still contributing far more to the entitlement system than it needed. Going foreword, one technological advance after another kept us busy. But most of it was so far removed from what was real and what kept things humming. Fat pensions, fat entitlements, ect.

The American people are waking back us to what is real. The regime is trying to cling to what isn't

The main difference between the 50's/60's and every other time is that the rest of the civilised world had just blown itself up with weapons made by the USA which was unscathed. If we didn't become the world's biggest power after that we'd have had to have been the world's biggest schmucks.

The Cold War then came along to keep up on top for another generation as Russia tried to secure themselves by becoming the "Gendarme of Europe" again. It didn't work any better in this century than it did in the last, and finally burned them out. Meanwhile the rest of the world rebuilt.

Since then we've had to readjust to being just another nation in the world. A pretty good one by any measure but that's not enough for conservatives. We have to be "Number 1" by their yardstick since all of them believe that everybody everywhere is really an American trapped in an ungodly foreigner's body

01-19-2011, 12:49 AM	#21
Serereids Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	You've got to ask yourself what was so different from the 50's-60's, than from immediately before and since. Basically you've got the greatest generation at their peak. They grew up in the depression, and survived the war. Now that they were home they where building homes, having families, going to the Moon, building cars and highways, waging the Cold War, ect. The costs of the New Deal/Great Society didn't seem to be a big deal because, hey, look at all these kids. They knew what was real, they saw what really mattered during the war. Of course in the 30's everyone was scared and cornered and not terribly rational. They wanted hope, and didn't much care about the long term costs. The 70's featured a bunch of spoiled and drug addled baby boomers who knew little of the struggles of their parents. If you go as far back as the 20's you find the first true urban generation who lack the natural protections of the self sufficient rural life. No doubt that is why the depression was so deep. Fast forward to the 80's and you've got baby boomers at their peak, living off the infrastructure their parents built, and still contributing far more to the entitlement system than it needed. Going foreword, one technological advance after another kept us busy. But most of it was so far removed from what was real and what kept things humming. Fat pensions, fat entitlements, ect. The American people are waking back us to what is real. The regime is trying to cling to what isn't The main difference between the 50's/60's and every other time is that the rest of the civilised world had just blown itself up with weapons made by the USA which was unscathed. If we didn't become the world's biggest power after that we'd have had to have been the world's biggest schmucks. The Cold War then came along to keep up on top for another generation as Russia tried to secure themselves by becoming the "Gendarme of Europe" again. It didn't work any better in this century than it did in the last, and finally burned them out. Meanwhile the rest of the world rebuilt. Since then we've had to readjust to being just another nation in the world. A pretty good one by any measure but that's not enough for conservatives. We have to be "Number 1" by their yardstick since all of them believe that everybody everywhere is really an American trapped in an ungodly foreigner's body
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