Posted on 08/18/2015 8:08:48 PM PDT by grumpygresh
Now that Obama has largely fulfilled his objective putting America on a trajectory of irreversible decline, it's time to assess when America was at its greatest. Was it 1945, the year America won WW2, or perhaps 1969 with the Moon landing? Or perhaps a year in the 1950s.
I’d view the high point as likely being some time in the early-to-mid-1950s. Before the culture started its gradual decline, with intermittant respites and upticks.
Been a lot of low points and a few high points (the Reagan era) reached ever since. But starting with Clinton and reaching its grim conclusion with Obama, it seems like the longtime interlocking historical threads holding everything together have become completely severed. America just no longer seems like America to me anymore. More like an evil opposite of everything it once was and once stood for. Wallowing in one-party corruption and cultural depravity. Fag-marriage was the final straw. I no longer sense any personal connection to the country nor the people in it. I’ve become emotionally divorced from it in just about every conceivable way.
1957 the best chevy maybe the best car ever came out. Rock and rock was really getting good. and we weren’t fighting a war anywhere.
Great chart. I well remember the mini and hot pants worn with white patent leather boots that zipped up the front or those white Green sandals that laced up to the knees. What a hoot!!!
Now many young girls probably don’t even have a skirt in their closet.
Irreversible decline?
Bull.
1962 bump. Good times.
Thanks for the delightful video.
The 80s were good years for me——hectic but terrific.
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I wasn’t born yet, but after studying different times in US history, I think that period was a pivotal one.
1962 the last year before all the BS started!
1859, before Fedzilla came of age.
“1962 bump. Good times.”
The year I was manufactured.
1788.
Constitution ratified.
We then spent the next 227 years, and counting, trying to pick it apart
1901
First cities with electricity. USA had just gained a world empire. No income taxes, real money, rapidly growing economy
1962 the last year before all the BS started!”
Great time of our lives. Living was sure a lot easier then.
I would’ve loved to live in Southern California in the late 50’s to early 60’s as a young man.
1989.
absolutely...magical year....best of times.
the question was the BEST years in US history not the WORST!!!!
1952 .
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