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One of the "conservative" women said the same thing. Maybe Laura or Ann. I agree completely.

Ralph Nader

most conservative leaning folks like me are hesitant to refer to us as entering the post-modern era.

that happened a long time ago, but it's picking up speed?

been to the moon a time or two, onward to mars.

we're not in kansas anymore.

the rise of the mega-cities have begun.

a general consensus of no more world war to knock down populations.(i guess there's not many heathens needing killin' anymore?).

I don't agree on the woman's vote. The nation was doing fine until after WW2.

ol ralph gave us bush the younger, instead of the inventor of the internet ol al.

I have more than one. Answer for you. First of all, bad stuff has been going on since the beginning of time. There have always been sociopaths, psychopaths, murders, mentally ill. There have been thieves and robbers and crooks. Lack of universal and instantaneous broadcasting and dissemination of news and information kept problems hidden, kept them local, and kept you and me isolated from whatever happened that was not within our immediate vicinity. If you didn't read page 7 of the newspaper, you wouldn't know about some random shooting half a country away. The next day, that story is gone, not in the news, and forgotten. It is not hammered over continuously 24/7 for days on end.

Let's assume you live in Texas. The gruesome stories of a serial killer like Ed Gein in Wisconsin meant nothing to you. If his story hit today, the MSM would meltdown in sensationalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

Just an illustration that kooks are not new. Also, in 1935, America had 150 million people. It's more than double today, and that means more psychos.

Next we need to talk about the shift from small town and rural America to Urban/suburban shift in the population. Less people in the country means less interpersonal interactions and therefore less chance for trouble. Still, bad stuff used to happen at the bars and the honky Tonks every weekend when people would get lickered up. Take the case in rural Georgia you probably never heard about. Carl Isaacs, according to people I know who working in the Corrections Department, was one evil S.O.B.



Carl Isaacs was executed on May 6, 2003, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, by lethal injection.[18] At the time of his execution, aged 49, he was the longest-serving death row inmate anywhere in the USA, having spent 30 years on death row prior to execution.[19][20]

Lastly, when we are young, we are largely protected from the nasty side of the world by our elders. Who worried about mass shootings, cannibalistic psychos, or murderous escaped Cons when you were 8 years old? Even if it happened, if it wasn't in your town, nobody got worked up about it.

Lastly, there is always the copycat factor. Who shot up schools before Columbine?

Or I can just tell you the 1960's changed everything. Short and to the point.

Good points, the Cuban crises in October 62 was something I was aware of, but did not worry about, I was 18.

we know the Naked Ape is a violent species. had had to be in order to be so successful in taking over the whole planet from various competitors.

sure, things get a little aberrant at times. the news media cycle, and global reporting....everything happening at once, so to speak.

the amazon is burning. indigenous citizens wanting to keep it natural. farmers & gov't wanting to develop it for profit & benefit.

trade wars do not have to be a prelude to land-based wars. thank goodness for that. the global mega-cities are becoming a force.

Nah. We got the 16th Amendment, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson before then.

Since 24 hour news. The news business has become very competitive in order to get viewers. Before 24 hour news we only got what the news services fed us. Everything was A OK because the only enemy they ever had was Richard Nixon.

kwg

I used to laugh at hippies in the 60s even as a child. I thought they were just harmless kooks. Now we realize they were the "foot in the door" of the whole Progressive movement intent on destroying America from within. When the radicals and Hippies got elected to Government offices, I stopped laughing,

I haven't read one thing that I thought was wrong. I especially think the 24 hour news feed kind of keeps us reved to red line on a daily basis.

I believe it was Mark Twain that said "Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them". I just have to ask if that same effort was put in to being correct what a difference that would make.

We are where we are today as a result of two things in the 60's: telling God to leave the public forum to include elementary schools, and the so-called right to abortion. Both illegal usurpations of due process from the courts preempting both the Congress and the Presidency.
The destruction of the black family via "civil rights laws" that drove the fathers out, comes in at #3 and affects us all to this day and likely far beyond.

She is still the greatest nation in the entire history of the world.

Essentially so.

I believe that the beginning of our downfall was the advent of television. It quickly took the place of Family time. Fewer dinners together, Sunday football replaced church, and the debauchery of Hollywood was brought directly into our homes! memtb

so clearly we're into change, aka evolution.

we must pay our taxes. that's a given.

so, is there light at the end of the tunnel?

evolution, revolution, whatever change occurs.

The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, pushed hard by Jacob Javits, along with the rest of organized Jewry.

I think it started in the late 60's and early 70's.

Wished i knew why.