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Your most important point was that prior to the 60's Americans still trusted the government to do the right thing. There's been a lot of water under the bridge since and a lot of lying us into conflicts/wars. Wasn't there just a poll up here on the board recently that 70% of Americans don't trust their government? And damn good reason why, it ain't the good ole days anymore Pero, and it doesn't look like things are getting any better. As American distrust for government has gone up their desire to sacrifice for the cause has gone down.
Yes there was, if it was a Gallup poll I might have been the one to post it. If not I received it from Gallup. There are a lot of things I distrust our government with and for. But even so, I would do what I did again and again. I think back in my day when my values and thoughts, ideals if you will were shaped it is true, America was a very different place. A lot of it was better and a lot of it was worse. But at least when IKE and JFK were presidents the people in government, congress were for the most part Americans first and Republicans and Democrats later. Today our elected leaders are Republicans and Democrats first and sometimes I am not sure they realize they are Americans too.
Back then America was known as the melting pot of the world. People came here and integrated into American society. Today we are segregated as politicians and parties divide us up into groups and turn us against one another in search for votes. I guess it is called diversity now. Back then as a kid born on a family farm the American dream seemed achievable, today I am not even certain that it exists. Yes, this is a completely different America, in so many thing much better and in so many other things much worse.
Government was small and Washington D.C. might as well have been on Mars for all they had to do with our daily lives. Now everything is top down, government involved in everything we do. We had no gun control, we left our homes unlocked when we went to town and left the car unlocked while in town. There were no school shootings or carjacking, there wouldn't have been any NSA spying or anything like that. Times change, so too does trust in ones own government.
I guess this is the ramblings of an old man, you did give me some things to think about.