Saturday, 5 PM...

It was indeed a lovely time, for kids at least.  Neighbors gathered outside in the evening, and at the river for picnics (the moms, dads, and kids) at least twice in the summer.   Christmas started after Thanksgiving and not before.  Houses began to be air conditioned.  TV was a big deal (rabbit ears and all). Community events, centennial celebrations, decoration day.  Mom sewed cowgirl outfits for sis and I to go to the rodeo, Gene Autry there in person.  Sis and I rode the city bus downtown, by ourselves, to have a hamburger and malted milkshake in a real drugstore.  I can still taste them, a long gone taste.  Fun was catching lightening bugs in a jar.  Or finding four leaf clovers, stringing them into a necklace.  Basically no pressure back then...for kids at least.

What a beautiful ceremony. President Trump continues to make great decisions to further Make America Great Again. That being said, let the lying liberal bashings begin...

We'll render Trump's Nazi girl irrelevant in a few months. In the meantime, conservatives can caper and gibber and drool.

What a wonderful time!

Nonwhite people were third-class citizens. A Black man could be, and often was, killed for looking at a White woman.

Only the rich had access to decent healthcare.

We were in constant danger of nuclear war.

US life expectancy was ten years less than it is today.

If anyone developed cancer, they were basically doomed.

Everyone, at least seemingly, smoked.

Black people could not attend the same schools as White people, and could not ride the same buses or even drink from the same drinking fountains.

We were involved in a horrific war than turned out to be the precursor to another even worse war.

People were driven out of jobs and communities, and sometimes imprisoned, without due process because of the "Red Scare."

Car safety rules were almost nonexistent. Seat belts and safety glass were well in the future.

The poor received very little assistance of any kind. They often starved, or sickened and died.

Those weren't exactly the "good old days." Conservatives, being mostly old, failing white men. remember it as a time when the uppity Negroes knew that the White man was supreme, the wimmenfolk knew their place, and "men were men." For many conservatives, that was the last time they had sex (consensual, at least). So naturally, they view it as a golden era.