Divided we stand?

[Vertnut]

It was just about as bad in the 60's, but I was just a kid then and politics didn't yet matter to me.

I was pretty young during the '60's (I was born in '60). Most people wanted equal rights for blacks, and most people disliked Viet Nam, but the smaller, louder anti-war folks got all the press, just like now. Sure, there was the "klan", but most Americans knew it was wrong. A lot of folks forget that the Dems fought the hardest against "equal rights", and they also drug us into Viet Nam. After his first term, "Tricky Dick" got us out. Man, how the parties have changed. The division I see now is closer to a "Civil War"-type division: Democratic controlled states in severe debt due to poor management and out-of-control social programs, vs. Republican governed states that aren't giving away the house. We are talking about two VERY different philosophies, from cradle to grave.

[The King]

I always liked Nixon. The "crimes" he commited were nothing compared to what the current POTUS is doing to the Constitution.

[Vertnut]

I always liked Nixon. The "crimes" he commited were nothing compared to what the current POTUS is doing to the Constitution.

No shit! Two guys break in to check on some notes?

[stevo]

The US we grew up in is gone and is not coming back.

Old people said the same thing in the '60s and '70s. I don't buy it.

I buy it, how many freedoms have we lost since the 70's? The 80's? 90's? How many more restrictive laws have been passed since then? How much power has our federal government snatched away from our states, from our local governments?

It is going further and further down the shitter, year by year.

Stevo

[Zfan]

This Nation has by majority become a Nation of lazy, free loaders looking for someone other than themselves to take care of them.