Why is it that progs associate American greatness with lynchings, Jim Crow, and slavery? I've never ever heard a Trump supporter or conservative or even a Republican make that association, or even hint that that was when America was "great". So why are all the progs insisting that it is?
I remember when someone would have a campaign to "take America back" or some such, the same kind of issues get raised. And the complaint goes something like oh you want us to go back to say, the 50's when America was wholesome, prosperous - and *RACIST*?
And I answer oh, EVERY time people say, let's go back, we ALWAYS mean, let's go back *IN TIME*.
Because for some people, going back or returning to or resetting the clock always means, returning to a time when stuff was WORSE.
I don't know where this idea comes from, because to hear the same people - it's never actually gotten BETTER. It still sucks big time.
Of course it doesn't mean, restore every stupid assed thing that has ever existed. It doesn't mean let's go back to mullets or bell bottoms or beatniks or zoot suits.
It means restoring the kinds of things we all cherish - families that actually stay together, companies that reward people who've given their career to them, neighborhoods where neighbors actually know each other, and streets where kids can play without being beaten by gangs or shot at by drug dealers. A time when Americans were actually liked abroad and we had respect, where Made in the USA used to mean very well made (I remember - as Doc Brown observed in 'Back to the Future' - a time when Made in Japan meant it was cheap crap). All across the board stuff. Like parents who didn't get into fights with other parents over their kids' soccer games.
These kinds of things.
I don't know what people who bristle at this must have in mind. They must think that - since all white people are racist - a better time would always point to an era when stuff was worse, for them.
As every nation that has dominated the world culturally or economically - there is a time of ascendancy - and a time of decline. I think there's little doubt that America is in a time of decline.
