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Originally Posted by Cowperson
In the 1950's, the American military industrial complex was three times the size it is today as a percentage of GDP . . . . Eisenhower would be quite pleased at the reduction.
Your school children were practicing hiding under their desks to escape a nuclear bomb . . . . . and they were warned of the assault on morals by the likes of Elvis Presley.
Sex was a sin and an unwanted pregnancy was a thing to take care of with a coat hanger instead of going to a real doctor because of the shame brought on yourself and your family.
The McCarthy Era was running rampant, with Godless Communists seemingly everywhere.
If anything, paranoia is significantly less today than it was in the 1950's . . . . and the very nature of being "conservative" was being reinforced far more forcibly then by churches and government than it is today.
Not sure why people would pine for a time like the 1950's . . . . although, coming out of WWII, it was certainly a period of vast economic expansion and vast hope.
Yet it also yielded the Protest Generation which attempted to break free of those same conservative shackles.
"Trust no one over 30" was aimed at the leaders of the 1950's.
Cowperson
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True. But I should have elaborated that America's enemy today is almost an invisible one. It was easy to put a face on everything war related back in the day. Just point to one of those countries. You can't put a face on the war on drugs. They've put a face on the War of Terror (Bin Laden) but that got all mixed up with Iraq and Saddam Hussein so it's almost a moot point. The paranoia of terrorism I would say is pretty high. See now obviously I wasn't alive in the 1950's so I have no idea what the life was like, nor did I claim to. It was just merely my take on American today as I see it. Perhaps the government manufactured the propaganda in that time, but I would argue that today it's the 24 hour news stations are that are making the propaganda.