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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
she did say deplorable. and is she in the oval
office at the moment?
Spence, why didn’t we see this level of carnage (mass shootings and garden variety gang violence) in the 1950s? Is it because we had better laws back then? Were guns not available back then? Did Eisenhower single
handedly suppress violence? Or is it all Trumps fault?
Or is violence correlated with the breakdown of the nuclear family?
Have fun answering that. You can’t, not in a way that doesn’t take a big dump all over your worldview.
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Safer for who?
The average black man who feared being killed because he looked at a white woman?
A guy who could be picked up at random from a Georgia street and lynched?
Safer for the black driver looking for a gasoline station willing to sell to him? Or a restaurant? Or if he needed a hospital and the only one who admitted blacks was 100 miles away? 300 miles?
Safer for a union organizer who feared being shot down or clubbed to death by the company’s thugs?
Safer for people with polio?
Safer for car drivers who had no safety belts or airbags?
Safer for all those kids sitting around lead paint and asbestos?
Safer for those guys being conscripted and sent off to the hell that was Korea?
Safer for the homosexual who could be chased down and beaten and the police wouldn’t care?
Safer for the women who needed an abortion but could only seek out “back alley” operations?
Safer for the people who had to deal with the Mafia?
The answer is NO. It wasn’t safer.
Was it better for women who had no outlets for their talents except housework, motherhood, and the companionship they offered their husbands?
We did get some things in the 50s, TV, gas guzzling cars, suburbs, malls, the FBI, partisan politics, the Cold War and the Red Scare, consumerism, disposable appliances, the Pill (debuted in 1960, but “birthed” in the Fifties), Playboy, counter-culture, preemptive wars.
But don't worry Trump is the only one who can save you from something that has been improving since the 80s, just like he's saving you from the economy that has been consistently growing for a decade and he claims that nobody else could.
And remember there's always a tweet for that, if only he thought his tweets applied to him.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Leadership: Whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible.
2:01 PM · Nov 8, 2013·Twitter Web Client