When was America great?

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SJConspirator
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The MAGA crowd never did answer this question.  If Make America Great Again is a campaign slogan, it begs the question, WHEN was America great?

I say we had 3 decades of greatness, roughly 1950 to 1980.  That was when America had great standing on the world stage, everybody wanted to come here, and opportunities were amazing for even average folk.  A family could be raised on one income, all indicators of quality of life were on the rise.  Of course, the caveat to all this is it was true if you are white.

After about 1980, the middle class began to evaporate.  Homelessness, poverty, sickness, drug addiction, all began to skyrocket.  

Anyway that’s my take.  I would like to know how some others would answer the question… when was America great?  And how in the world could we ever return to greatness?
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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 9:59 am » wrote: The MAGA crowd never did answer this question.  If Make America Great Again is a campaign slogan, it begs the question, WHEN was America great?

I say we had 3 decades of greatness, roughly 1950 to 1980.  That was when America had great standing on the world stage, everybody wanted to come here, and opportunities were amazing for even average folk.  A family could be raised on one income, all indicators of quality of life were on the rise.  Of course, the caveat to all this is it was true if you are white.

After about 1980, the middle class began to evaporate.  Homelessness, poverty, sickness, drug addiction, all began to skyrocket.  

Anyway that’s my take.  I would like to know how some others would answer the question… when was America great?  And how in the world could we ever return to greatness?
America was never great, but the nation established to treat ancestors equally timed apart for the first time since civilization began with a national set of guidelines for each subdivision of the continent to make up their own rules needed to survive as adapting to space mutually evolving here.

Instincts evolving over intellect manifesting ancestries to comply to idealists that work against natural positions occupying space. Realities supply self fulfilling prophecies to a species ignoring how and why living is restricted to adapting in space mutually evolving now.

Every character of reality worships God or Country, not respecting biology eternally separating each one alive now. that game of we are better than you will always be psychological bullying by mob rule over individual displacement equally occupying space now.
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omh » 23 Nov 2021, 10:08 am » wrote: America was never great, but the nation established to treat ancestors equally timed apart for the first time since civilization began with a national set of guidelines for each subdivision of the continent to make up their own rules needed to survive as adapting to space mutually evolving here.

Instincts evolving over intellect manifesting ancestries to comply to idealists that work against natural positions occupying space. Realities supply self fulfilling prophecies to a species ignoring how and why living is restricted to adapting in space mutually evolving now.

Every character of reality worships God or Country, not respecting biology eternally separating each one alive now. that game of we are better than you will always be psychological bullying by mob rule over individual displacement equally occupying space now.

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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 9:59 am » wrote: The MAGA crowd never did answer this question.  If Make America Great Again is a campaign slogan, it begs the question, WHEN was America great?

I say we had 3 decades of greatness, roughly 1950 to 1980.  That was when America had great standing on the world stage, everybody wanted to come here, and opportunities were amazing for even average folk.  A family could be raised on one income, all indicators of quality of life were on the rise.  Of course, the caveat to all this is it was true if you are white.

After about 1980, the middle class began to evaporate.  Homelessness, poverty, sickness, drug addiction, all began to skyrocket.  

Anyway that’s my take.  I would like to know how some others would answer the question… when was America great?  And how in the world could we ever return to greatness?
Race issues aside, from the industrialization era until the mass offshoring of production. So 1890-1970 perhaps? Guess we also led the dot com boom so... through the 1990s?
 
 
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Your methodology was used to becoming none effective against my brain navigating time mutually evolving here within a body never staying the total sum reached here again forward staying alive now.

When not living my body reverts to molecular content changing shape as formed apart currently. You really don't live within the kinetics of adapting to the moment anymore.
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Neo » 23 Nov 2021, 10:22 am » wrote: Race issues aside, from the industrialization era until the mass offshoring of production. So 1890-1970 perhaps? Guess we also led the dot com boom so... through the 1990s?


Race issues aside, huh?  

you can't just ignore a defining factor of the nation, of history.  I took race issues in consideration hence I excluded the years of mass lynching from our historical "greatness" 1870 thru 1935 were not great for blacks
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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 10:32 am » wrote: Race issues aside, huh?  

you can't just ignore a defining factor of the nation, of history.  I took race issues in consideration hence I excluded the years of mass lynching from our historical "greatness" 1870 thru 1935 were not great for blacks
Not great for blacks in the south. 
 
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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 9:59 am » wrote: When was America great?
Before the trespassers arrived....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNqlhPFc4Y
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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 10:32 am » wrote: Race issues aside, huh?  

you can't just ignore a defining factor of the nation, of history.  I took race issues in consideration hence I excluded the years of mass lynching from our historical "greatness" 1870 thru 1935 were not great for blacks
1870-1935 weren't really great for anybody outside of the Robber Barons.  6 year olds working in a coal mine.  7 year olds working in textile mills.  The newsboy strike of 1899:

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Newsboys and newsgirl getting afternoon papers in New York City (1910 
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 Child coal miner 1909
 
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OdeToJoy » 23 Nov 2021, 10:45 am » wrote: 1870-1935 weren't really great for anybody outside of the Robber Barons.  6 year olds working in a coal mine.  7 year olds working in textile mills.  The newsboy strike of 1899:

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Newsboys' strike of 1899
Newsboys and newsgirl getting afternoon papers in New York City (1910 
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 Child coal miner 1909


I heard about them Newsboys.  They ended up doing pretty good

https://youtu.be/2GGwL_8TBeg
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Neo » 23 Nov 2021, 10:33 am » wrote: Not great for blacks in the south. 
 
Either slaves or victims of tribal genecide. Remember blacks sold other tribe's people to other parts of the world to conquer the land their tribe occupied. last time I read history native Americans did the same **** before the whiteman landed.

mayans did the same **** to themselves also and look at the intellect they had that could chart the stars 52,000 years.. White men never did that. Oh Mayans destroyed themselves also.

Intellect corrupts what instincts navigate naturally.
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Pre women's Lib...2 wage earners now required to barely tread water..children raised in institutional centers like the USSR
Pre 50 channel cable TV and the lazy Cheeto Culture that  came with it.
Pre Dope Culture...[see Cheeto Culture]
Pre lazy, dysfuntional, mentally unstable, self indulgent, obese prescription drug dependent, fast food gorging,  culture. Body / Mind / Spirit...malfunction 
Pre ridiculous court awards / frivolous law suit culture that caused skyrocket insurance rates passed onto the public
Pre population explosion...nothing good came from that.
 
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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 10:52 am » wrote: I heard about them Newsboys.  They ended up doing pretty good

https://youtu.be/2GGwL_8TBeg

Doing pretty good?  A 7 year old standing on the street selling papers all day is doing well?  Those kinds of abuses are why we have child labor laws.



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OdeToJoy » 23 Nov 2021, 10:57 am » wrote: Doing pretty good?  A 7 year old standing on the street selling papers all day is doing well?  Those kinds of abuses are why we have child labor laws.

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I had a paper route at 11, builds character. 
 
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Neo » 23 Nov 2021, 11:04 am » wrote: I had a paper route at 11, builds character. 
 
builds character really lost its value as a sole displacement equally timed apart now.
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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 9:59 am » wrote: The MAGA crowd never did answer this question.  If Make America Great Again is a campaign slogan, it begs the question, WHEN was America great?

I say we had 3 decades of greatness, roughly 1950 to 1980.  That was when America had great standing on the world stage, everybody wanted to come here, and opportunities were amazing for even average folk.  A family could be raised on one income, all indicators of quality of life were on the rise.  Of course, the caveat to all this is it was true if you are white.

After about 1980, the middle class began to evaporate.  Homelessness, poverty, sickness, drug addiction, all began to skyrocket.  

Anyway that’s my take.  I would like to know how some others would answer the question… when was America great?  And how in the world could we ever return to greatness?
According to the right wing it was before 1860. And they wanted to kill Americans just like today. 
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SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2021, 9:59 am » wrote: The MAGA crowd never did answer this question.  If Make America Great Again is a campaign slogan, it begs the question, WHEN was America great?

I say we had 3 decades of greatness, roughly 1950 to 1980.  That was when America had great standing on the world stage, everybody wanted to come here, and opportunities were amazing for even average folk.  A family could be raised on one income, all indicators of quality of life were on the rise.  Of course, the caveat to all this is it was true if you are white.

After about 1980, the middle class began to evaporate.  Homelessness, poverty, sickness, drug addiction, all began to skyrocket.  

Anyway that’s my take.  I would like to know how some others would answer the question… when was America great?  And how in the world could we ever return to greatness?

We exterminate those who hate and are dismantling any remaining culture we enjoyed in those three decades.
Like In "Jaws", but "We're gonna need a bigger oven!"
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DeplorablePatriot » 23 Nov 2021, 12:45 pm » wrote: We exterminate those who hate and are dismantling any remaining culture we enjoyed in those three decades.
Like In "Jaws", but "We're gonna need a bigger oven!"
Your we exterminate those who hate and dismantle any remaining culture? I debunk misleading franchises of people demanding everyone ignore biology is the kinetic source of eternal separation of ancestors ever lived in this atmosphere regardless species.

chronological context doesn't outweigh genetic results occupying time now. Those prioritizing words matter most are dishonest as Hell itself COMPARED TO BIOLOGICAL TIME THAT ARRIVES ADAPTING TO ONLY LIVING IN SERIES PARALLEL PATTERNS OF ANCESTRAL PROGRESSION TAKING PLACE AS USUAL AS CONCEIVED TO DECOMPOSED currently here direct replacements of departed lifetimes since inception.

you won't find a more accurate accountability of each lifetime ever occupied space in this atmosphere.
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Neo » 23 Nov 2021, 11:04 am » wrote: I had a paper route at 11, builds character.

So did I. Today you couldn't get a liberals' kid to clean his own room for $100/hr.
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DeplorablePatriot » 23 Nov 2021, 12:57 pm » wrote: So did I. Today you couldn't get a liberals' kid to clean his own room for $100/hr.
Smart kid would take a week picking up one toy an hour. Your hypothetical didn't specify they only had one hour to get the room clean. Just hourly rate.
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