Just thinking back here. I was born in 47 and thinking i lived through possibly

[bluestarone]

The best times EVER (40's 50's 60's 70's) Didn't realize it then BUT do now! Now i also feel like i'm living through the WORST time of my life!! This wonderful country is seeing changes i never thought possible! I've been very lucky, and i'm REALLY concerned what my children and Grandchildren will go through. We need to win in 2020, for our kids and for our country!!!

[rzemanfl]

1. Me too, although the '70s were not all that great. n/t

[bluestarone]

2. Haha was married in the 70's here so i HAVE to include the 70's

[rzemanfl]

7. LOL. n/t

[bdamomma]

3. for the world too

we need to eradicate this cancer that has plagued all of us.

[bluestarone]

5. So very true!

[secondwind]

4. You are not alone, my friend.

[bluestarone]

6. TY not feeling alone!

Lot of GREAT people here!!

[Greybnk48]

8. Born in 48 and agree with much of what you've said, though

I wasn't a fan of the 70's either, and I hated the Reagan era in total. Hated it. I see that as the beginning of the end.

My saving grace for the 70's was the birth of my first daughter!

[bluestarone]

9. Yep my family started

In the 70's! Was hard to raise them BUT didn't have to deal with tRUMPY'S then.

[Stonepounder]

23. I was born in 48 as well and the Mrs. in 46.

[Rebl2]

10. I don't

think the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s were so great. A lot of racism was accepted at that time. Riots and Vietnam war in the 60’s into the 70’s.

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R

[bluestarone]

12. TY

Back at you!

[sprinkleeninow]

13. 👍

[AJT]

14. If you were a white man then those decades were great.

If you were black, then Jim Crow in the south and institutional racism in general made them less than great. I can say as a woman that those decades were oppressive to women. My mom had 6 children in 8 years before female birth control was available(only to married women who had a child), men could beat their wives without consequence, decent jobs and pay were for men. I think those seem like great times for many of us because most of us were kids and didn't really see the country as it was for so many adults. It did seem we made great strides over those decades, and I had hoped we were going to continue moving forward. I guess most white people long for the 40s and 50s, all that privilege, all those good middle class jobs that white men could choose from. To republicans equality = oppression. The middle class has been gutted and white people need someone to blame, and the use of religion gives them cover for their behavior.

[bluestarone]

16. Everything you mentioned i've seen!

And it's true. But looking back compared to today? wow this country is in deep trouble!! We ALL need to fight like hell for our families and country!

[AJT]

17. Yes. All that slow forward motion, and their tearing it all down

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. And spousal rape was not prosecuted as a crime until the 1980's in a lot of places (n/t)

[watoos]

15. I too was born in 47

I played bass guitar in a band, what a blast growing up in the 60's, except for fucking Nam. Long hairs v the whiskey people.

[bluestarone]

18. GOOD music of the 60's!!!!

YEA!

[albacore]

19. Whippersnapper! Born in 1943. Southeast Asia War Games with Uncle Sam's Misguided Children...

Taught US history in high school for 30 years.

NEVER saw anything like this.

90% of Republicans approve of trump.

How can we ever forget... or forgive?

I don't intend to.

[bluestarone]

21. Haha had a brother born in 44

i do not intend on forgetting what they are doing!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. Child of '47 here and I thank you for your service as a teacher....

especially in that subject for which the entire nation needs a refresher course....

That and civics, U.S. government, and world history......

My daughter is a 5th grade reading teacher and for that I am very proud.

[elevator48]

22. Born in '48

And from Georgia. It was a bad time to be Catholic, Jewish or black where I was then. Life was definitely simpler and music was great. A lot of the ugliness was not as public, but still there.
I believe the majority of the culture has changed for the better for gays and minorities. Politics not so much. We are definitely living through the worst Presidency in history. We also had four political assassinations, Kennedys, King, Malcolm X. !968 was the most tumultuous year in our history.

[patphil]

24. I was born in 1946

We sure have seen a whole lot of change in this country over those 70+ years...the good, the bad, the ugly, and the magnificent.
So, we know what its like to be a true patriot, and how important it is to defend the republic from a domestic enemy.
As they say, "the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance".

Patrick Phillips

[AwakeAtLast]

26. I was born in '70

People my age have been eating shit sandwiches all our lives and told to like it.

[DangerousRhythm]

27. 1974 here.

Unless I win the lottery, I won’t be retiring.

Seconded on the shit sandwiches.

[whathehell]

32. Every generation gets their "shit sandwiches" to eat..

I'm a Boomer and can attest to it.

[Hoyt]

28. All decades in my life have had problems. This is bad, because we are in it, but we'll

get through it, just like before. Question is, better or worse/worst?

[mountain grammy]

29. Depends on who you were and where you were..

Also born in 47, but grew up on military bases for the first ten years.. America sucked for a lot of people

[whathehell]

34. That is the case in every era, actually.

If no time can be celebrated until the happiness of every living thing at the time can be ascertained, I guess we can forget celebrating. Just sayin.

[INdemo]

30. Well I was born in 1946.I never in my lifetime thought we would

threatened with Fascism or Nazism.
Where are those sons and daughters of those that fought to preserve our Democracy Why aren't they standing against this Democracy threat?

Is it a fact now that Republicans in Congress go along with Trump are vying for a position in Trumps dictatorship, fascist Government? It appears that way.
Do we not have defenses against this guy...I mean suppose we win the election by millions and have it called back because Trump declares voter fraud or something. Or the Russians are able to flip millions of votes..I am scared.

[moonscape]

33. My parents escaped Eastern Europe at the end of WWII ...

and I am very glad they didn't live to see this.

Sometimes I despair that I don't have enough years left to see this righted, if it can/will be.

[COLGATE4]

31. Me too (1942). Wish I had appreciated those good times more.

Certainly very pessimistic about the future of this once-great country, particularly if Dumpy manages to engineer his reelection.