(November 9, 2016 at 8:03 am)chimp3 Wrote:(November 9, 2016 at 7:51 am)PETE_ROSE Wrote: On a brighter note, I rarely watch tv. TWD is the only show I watch regularly.
With a Trump victory however Saturday Night Live should have plenty of material for the next 4 years and might actually be funny again.
I agree the comedy will get better. Can I ask you again what year America was great? What year we are going back to?
It was not one year but a whole period. After the founding father's passed, America was good for a while. then began a steady decline then the civil war happened, which was not a bad thing for this country. In fact it was engineered by the founding Fathers via the second amendment. The civil war was the net result to the right of a citizen to bear arms and take up arms to defend their rights/nation against any thread foreign or DOMESTIC. The civil war was a wiping of the slate, and a steady incline began which peaked (great depression social issues and all) at the end of WWII. From there we plateaued for a while then in the 50s forward we have been loosing ground. socially, our states began to loose the right to independently govern themselves as independent of the federal government, and our position globally began to faulter trying to be the world police force. Industrially we peaked in the mid 70s then because of the unions we began to export jobs.
The term to make america great again points to the idea that we can recapture our independence/statehood is re empowered (meaning we can live independantly of whatever we define as the nut jobs in other states./We can live with like minded people and not be forced to accept a central morality or central set of rules) It also means we will re establish our industrial base, and rebuild the infrastructure/transportation of this country.
Because during the time period I mention we were expanding all of those things and it is what made America great. It was a celebration of diversity not only of race, but of religion and creed as well. If you didn't want to be religious you could move to a less religious state if you want more there were more. if you wanted to be xenophobic there were places inbred just for that reason while others were sausage fests relatively speaking...
We lost that in the name of mandated tolerance. (the intolerance of the intolerant) We lost our industrial base, we lost our jobs for our core demo, we lost our freedoms just to paint ourselves 'educated and tolerant.'
