As a kid I loved to read about the long hunters and the mountain men. I wanted to live in that era. I’m in my mid 40’s and old enough that I wouldn’t want to be transported back to that time to survive. I liked the Wild West but I think at that time post Civil War America was already straying from its foundation and again to rough for me to want to try to adapt to in my mid 40’s.
I think post WWII through to about the mid 1960’s would have been a nice time to have been in my hay day in America. I’m happy with my life and where it is at but strictly speaking from a best times in America standpoint there’s maybe been worse times (Great Depression) but no doubt a lot of better times.
Would have been cool to be born about 1730. Experience the French and Indian wars. Also, it would have been amazing to experience Kentucky before it got all full of Kentuckians. The tales say it was a hunters paradise before the Cumberland Gap stuff.
In the era where the media reports facts, the democrat party is no more, the prisons full of traitors and antifa and blm are footnotes in history as POS terrorists
I think it would have been cool as hell to have lived when my great grandmother did. She was born in 1889 and died in 1992. From horse and buggy to the space age. She saw one hell of a lot in her life and from the stories she told, had a hell of a good time.
Now....We actually may have a chance to make an indelible mark on American history. A re-dedication to our Constitutional principles, a serious and traumatic blow to endemic corruption and a lawful rebellion to regain control of our government. We no longer enjoy “domestic tranquility” our “Union” is imperfect, our government is destructive of these ends....
“That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness“ Declaration of Independence.
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
Pull an abscessed tooth without novocaine before you long for the good old days.
Agreed. And is a primary reason along with refrigeration and antibiotics that I wouldn’t at this stage in life wish to go to far back in history. As a teenager or early 20’s something and feeling bulletproof. Exploring the Smokey Mountains or Rocky Mountains mostly wild and never before seen by a white man sounded like a good and free time to have lived.
Dido for the Wild West and having a half drunk Doc Holiday trying to pull it.
I like to be comfortable, for sure. But there's more to life than just comfort. Advancements, toys, and gizmos. There's a quality of society and the world around you that some of us think is more important.
I'd like to go back to almost any time before now... with the exception of maybe about 1914 through 1945 or so.
My own period of interest is mid to late 18th century, and the Revolutionary War period.
