1950s Baby Boom America (I remember it): No one was obese; we were an 89% Caucasian country; and because most were of northern-European stock, and miscegenation was taboo, half of all Americans had blue eyes. Children were almost always blond.
Our women were mostly ladies, while men were mostly gentlemen (holding doors, not swearing in front of a lady, etc.), and men had self-esteem from holding down good, union-wage jobs. Even a high-school dropout could afford a family of five kids (with a stay-at-home wife), and own a little house, a Woodie station wagon, and a hunting or fishing cabin to get away to. The Cauc. population grew by an astounding 50% from 1940 to 1960, rising to 170 mio. Everyone worked, no one freeloaded. Everything was (I am quoting actual labels) “Proudly Made in the USA.”
A Woodie station wagon from Ford (made with real American steel and good wood, which created jobs for loggers):
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Cali Orbán MooreAnd those cars lasted decades. Fathers passed them down to sons. Nowadays, cars are made to last one lease term of 3 years, so you go out and waste money leasing a new one all over again. Everything is about quantity not quality now. Including relationships.
Karren Bakker And we never locked our doors
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John De Nugent Aufdeutsch Still true up here in the UP. 🙂
Cali Orbán Moore That was the America the world envied. Today’s America they watch on YouTube or on the news in horror.
Amen to that. Basic common European manners and culture. At 16 we got our military ID number. After school we were allocated a military unit for 2 years and 1 to 3 months camps every year after for 10 years. The only way to get out of military conscription was by going to university, but that only postponed it as you were drafted right after that. Or you could join the police or prison services . The first 3 months basic training was the same for all. If you hadn’t been taught manners at home, the military very quickly taught you that. A disciplined society where respect for others and especially elders was just part of life.
Jack Hamilton Then the Joos destroyed this country
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Layne Lawless I remember the saddle shoes my mother insisted I wear to school were $100, which was a huge amt of $$ then. I remember the car we drove which had a big visor over the exterior of the windshield to protect our eyes from the sun. OTOH, there wasn’t as much awareness about child abuse, violation, pedophilia, what constitutes rape, etc. We thought everything was just apple-pie-wonderful, and it wasn’t. The bad stuff was just pushed underground, and victims did not get any help. Yeah, those were the good old days of denial.
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John De Nugent Aufdeutsch Yes, so true, Layne, and I was a pedophilia victim myself in the 1950s.
But, basically, our life was defined by family, work, maybe church, by military service, and fervent patriotism. It wasn’t perfect then, and some serious things, as you say, were mostly swept under the rug (driving drunk; sexual harassment of women by factory bosses; and child molestation by clergy —not just Catholic!!), but neither was it the degenerate hell we live in now of broken homes (divorce), heavy drugs, suicide and anti-depressants.
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John De Nugent Aufdeutsch To be fair and balanced, cars had no anti-pollution equipment (and city air was a BROWN dome and we saw fiery-red sunsets from the smog). There were no seat belts. And drunk drivers got a slap on the wrist and slaughtered good people by the tens of thousands. So some things ARE better now.
John James Jones And then…jews. Loss of vigilance should be added to the list of the deadly sins…
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Chance RyalsYeah but you wanted cheap labor started to import outsiders gave your government more and more power broke your own laws sent soldiers to died for Israel ect ect ect
John De Nugent AufdeutschBoomer bashing? As if the younger set were all superheroes…… “WE” did NOT want to import cheap labor, and “WE” did not want Third-World immigrants. It was done against our will by the two captured political parties, one of which pretended convincingly to be nationalistic and conservative.
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People had no idea back then, Chance, (and there was NO Internet to inform them either) just (((who))) owned and controlled the newspapers, tv and the Fed.
Nancy Mark The way it was meant to be
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Claudia Dora ChadwickEven neighborhoods with *gasp* Eyetalians (Italians) were great places to live though the incidence of brown eyes was higher. My Italian relatives worked like SOBs. The closeness of family was great.
John De Nugent AufdeutschYes, and I grew up in a heavily Italian state, Rhode Island. Italian neighborhoods had no street crime, and black hoodlums feared the Mafia. I heard this from old-timers in Providence, Boston, Philadelphia, New Kensington, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. A white woman could walk home in an Italian neighborhood without fear.
Kristine Huddleston Same in Canada, John. Never locked a door, Churches left their doors open all night, you could go for a walk at midnight and no worries and it was considered showing off to want anything other than a 1,000 sq, foot house. People were content, no one lacked anything and now it’s a mess. Part of the problem is the people themselves who (((Someone))) gave credit cards to and then told them to “get after it” and boy did they. It is more than irresponsible Government that is way over their heads in debt now and now are facing the consequences. It’s a mess out there now.
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Cali Orbán Moore Television coming into the homes had a big hand in that I think. They started bombarding people with commercials that brainwashed people into buying stuff they really didn’t need, but HAD to get in order to keep up with the Joneses.
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Cali Orbán Moore And of course who owned the media that played those commercials, who owned the banks people ran to get a loan from in order to buy all those appliances they were told they just HAD to have, and who owned the big factories that produced those appliances?
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John De Nugent Aufdeutsch Once the war was over, and racism and antisemitism became taboo because of the Holycost, the power to wipe out careers and silence people for “heresy” really kicked in. In 1935 already Roosevelt redesigned personally the Great Seal of the United States in this manner, reflecting his own ancestors (Delano and Rosenfeld) via both mother and father, though he looked ultra-WASP-y:
Andrea Nicole Williams My parents are from the Silent Generation.
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John De Nugent AufdeutschOne of the things a (((race of psychiatrists))) do is to very gradually “habituate” us to outrages which the previous generations would never have tolerated. Mobs would have rampaged back then over stuff we n meekly swallow now.
They want us to say to ourselves: “Hell, whaddya gonna do? You gotta go with the times. The world is changing.”
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I now feel a special moral obligation to these young white people of today to say:
“Hold on — time out. None of these horrors are normal at all or necessary. It wasn’t always this way, so don’t get used to them. I remember clearly when America was totally different and a really great country.
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We just need to get rid of that one group which turned uns from almost a heaven into a miserable hell.”
Claudia Dora ChadwickThe kids are outside, not in their rooms playing video games like the new crop.
Richard ConnellyI remember those times very well. My father was a Chicago Police detective and got a months vacation. We mostly spent them traveling out West where the campgrounds were not overcrowded and were either free or no more than .50 cents a night. And yes, the kids were primarily blond…like my brother’s and I circa 1959.
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John De Nugent AufdeutschGreat genes….. Whites started families then when they were young and healthy, not like today, having one kid by accident in their late thirties from an “accident” while drunk (a one-night stand), then raising their one and only kid as a single mom. 🙁
Joseph FazioI remember the start of deer season at my high school. All the guys took their rifles into shop class for a tune up. The school was a virtual armed camp.But there was NEVER any incident involving any of these firearms.Of course my school was all white.
John De Nugent AufdeutschThis is the huge dilemma for everyone trying to uplift the human race. Example: Jesus rides into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to “Hosanna in the highest!” Then he whips the money-changers out of the Temple and says His John 8:44. (LOL) On Friday he is already nailed to a cross! “He who tells the truth should have one foot in the stirrup!”
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