MAGA - describe when America was “Great”

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Anonymous wrote:Asking MAGAs honestly - please describe when America was “great” and what you want “again”. Thank you.

1980’s. Silicon Valley was crating innovation without own children

Business would hire US citizens and train them

College grads could find entry leve jobs and afford a house in 5 years of saving

It was immoral to fire someone and replace them with cheap temporary foreign worker

NP
Politics aside I think this is the first time I've ever heard anyone look back at the 1980s fondly.

Do you associate in any way with actual humans that were alive at that time? Or do you spend all your time grinding your teeth about politics and reading the internet?

80s were fun! And race relations were great then as reflected by appreciative pop culture. America was a big hug. The only thing we had to fear were the Ruskies, and yes, that was scary but it united us .

Was also the decade of AIDS and gay people were heavily discriminated against. There’s that heart wrenching story of the woman in Little Rock who took care of more than 1000 dying AIDS patients whose own families disowned them and had no one else to be with them on their deathbed or claim their bodies for burial.

Read this https://www.today.com/today/amp/tdna223666

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asking MAGAs honestly - please describe when America was “great” and what you want “again”. Thank you.

1980’s. Silicon Valley was crating innovation without own children

Business would hire US citizens and train them

College grads could find entry leve jobs and afford a house in 5 years of saving

It was immoral to fire someone and replace them with cheap temporary foreign worker

NP
Politics aside I think this is the first time I've ever heard anyone look back at the 1980s fondly.

The music of the 80s was awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the last time:
9/14/2001 when W united the country with a bullhorn. It did get highly partisan after this and has progressively gotten worse to this day because of morons in both parties.
It shouldn't take a terrorist attack for this sentiment and patriotism to happen more frequently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvsjOEzhzQ

Agreed. 9/11 was the beginning of hyper-partisanship and a race to become more patriotic than thou. Distrust of immigrants also accelerated after 9/11.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asking MAGAs honestly - please describe when America was “great” and what you want “again”. Thank you.

1980’s. Silicon Valley was crating innovation without own children

Business would hire US citizens and train them

College grads could find entry leve jobs and afford a house in 5 years of saving

It was immoral to fire someone and replace them with cheap temporary foreign worker

NP
Politics aside I think this is the first time I've ever heard anyone look back at the 1980s fondly.

The music of the 80s was awesome.

Some of it. A lot of it was electronica atrocious. The emergence of Hip Hop and Rap though, was pretty awesome.

[Anonymous]

Every time period/decade in American history can be viewed as both good and bad, depending on where you’re sitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before the neocons took over in 2001. 1980s Reagan era-1990s Clinton era were a peak for America.

Trump was right. The best thing he is doing is kicking the Cheneys, Bushes, Wolfowitzes, and the rest of the chicken hawks out of the Republican Party and giving them an unceremonious exit.

+1

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"When them thar ______ knew their place."

They'll lie and say that's not it, but that's it.

Trump probably has more black, Japanese, Arab, Latino, and Jewish friends than you ever had and people of all these races rented rooms at Trump Tower . He’s a New Yorker but keep on, bro.

Trump is right that the wars and political correctness destroyed the US

Nobody “rents rooms” at Trump Tower. It’s a condo.

[Anonymous]

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Trump probably has more black, Japanese, Arab, Latino, and Jewish friends than you ever had and people of all these races rented rooms at Trump Tower . He’s a New Yorker but keep on, bro.

Trump is right that the wars and political correctness destroyed the US

"political correctness" is people asking to be treated with equity and referred to how they want to be referred to rather than how white male culture wants to refer to them. Why is that a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time period/decade in American history can be viewed as both good and bad, depending on where you’re sitting.

Sure and some periods were objectively worse than others — for example when some people were legally allowed to hold other people in chattel slavery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time period/decade in American history can be viewed as both good and bad, depending on where you’re sitting.

But would you ever return to the time before the civil rights act passed, s a black person? Would you go back as a woman to before the 19th Amendment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite. Broadly, I'd take anytime before early 2000s (I distinctly view forever wars that started after 9/11 as NOT great) but in particular, 1960s- technical innovation, rigorous schools, low crime, civil rights, nuclear family still intact, low cost of living, cheap college. Very much admire President Kennedy and what he wanted for this country.

The 1960s: you mean when higher tax rates on the wealthy balanced the budget?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"When them thar ______ knew their place."

They'll lie and say that's not it, but that's it.

You are just a gross person who has no clue. You just want to think things are tbmhat way because it justifies you disregarding other people's opinions about how government should be run. You have either been brainwashed or intentionally paint half the country as racist. I have grown up and lived in various conservative places my entire life and have never seen even one ounce of true racism. The only people that are obsessed with race is liberals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"When them thar ______ knew their place."

They'll lie and say that's not it, but that's it.

Trump probably has more black, Japanese, Arab, Latino, and Jewish friends than you ever had and people of all these races rented rooms at Trump Tower . He’s a New Yorker but keep on, bro.

Trump is right that the wars and political correctness destroyed the US

Nobody “rents rooms” at Trump Tower. It’s a condo.

False

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"When them thar ______ knew their place."

They'll lie and say that's not it, but that's it.

Trump probably has more black, Japanese, Arab, Latino, and Jewish friends than you ever had and people of all these races rented rooms at Trump Tower . He’s a New Yorker but keep on, bro.

Trump is right that the wars and political correctness destroyed the US

Was this before or after the Central Park 5?

[Anonymous]

Politics aside, never want to go back to a time when people smoked next to me on planes and in restaurants or where cancer was an automatic death sentence.