MCCarthy was right!
Absolutely, there's nothing wrong with reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries; all without any evidence or supporting substance. Let those
commies and (insert latest political challenge) burn! Or anyone who stands against or questions our
personal views!
Or... one could side with reason, logic, honesty, and integrity... To each their own though, that's life!
Rampant crime? In the 50's we could leave our doors unlocked, go walking downtown any time of the day or night and be safe, kids could play outside any time of the day or night and be safe.
Yes, rampant crime, granted that is subjective of course. There are countless social and criminal studies on the matter though, and attempting to marginalize the subject of thousands of thesis's to a few sentences is silly. I'll just state, the actual statistics and their variance from commonly held perceptions and memories are ...interesting.
Also interestingly, I can pretty much do all of those things where I live. There has always been
safer communities and
not-so safe communities.
I believe the majority of families went to church at least once a week and taught their children to be honest, moral people.
That would be an incredible, IMO, society. Unfortunately, I'm not so sure it existed or is different than society now. Statistically, weekly church attendance of the 1950's was about the same as it was in 1999, according to readily accepted Gallup Polls.
VONNE, I was a teenager in the fifties. I lived it, did you?
Certainly not, in fact my parents weren't even teenagers in the fifties!
Sure, there were wrongs, but they were being delt with peacefully and within the law.
While this is subjective, personally subjective, I'd be inclined to question how peaceful and legal many resolutions came. Certainly, they weren't particular peaceful or legal ramifications, for those whom were different or ran afoul of McCarthy's version of America.
As for segregation, schools should have been intergrated beginning in Kinder Garten and moved up one grade each year.
Anger and hate still resonate from the violent way our schools were intergrated.
I'm actually inclined to agree with you, perhaps completely. It was handled poorly, albeit purposefully at time :-\
I rode a school bus by a new school with central heat and air and attended an old school with antique radiator heat that seldom worked and no air conditioning at all. The new school was for the black kids, so don't even start with the poor pitiful black crap with me.
I attended a school, in the nineties, that still had those antique radiators and no air conditioning. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!
I get the impression you're a Liberal, in which case I'm wasting my time replying to your senseless posts. You don't even rate a reply.
I'm actually quite conservative with my
personal views, albeit conservative is certainly subjective. However politically, I tend to hold a quite moderate approach that I
attempt to base on reason rather than emotional responses. I feel that the political pendulum is always moving and dangerous when ever it leans too far in any direction.
