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@Rich et al,
You're clearly distorting my entire meaning!
Obviously things weren't perfect before Trump,
before Reagan as well.
The issue here is only the degree to which matters
became way more exaggerated from Reagan on.
The "good old days" were plenty bad for women,
so-called "minorities" and for those unfortunate souls
not deemed the cleverest in class. Far too many American
families would simply abandon these poor creatures to society,
as the expression was in those years, and they were avoided
like the plague.
On the other hand, pre-Woodstock Era, the average American
might make a play, chuck a bluff, and pretend that the less
successful deserved the same quality of life as go-getter success.
While perhaps not exactly honest, it opted for social peace
rather than social warfare and no one way any the wiser.
Before the advent of the Civil Rights Era, minority groups
were shamefully marginalized in schools, in the workplace
and elsewhere, left often without much if any recourse as
the largely unstoppable phalanx of a mostly white, systemically racist society,
prevented many from ever being able to crawl their way out
of poverty without some sort of public assistance.
For the umpteenth time, the problem is, as is frequently the
case here in the US, that the pendulum gradually swung in the
opposite direction, whereby merely because a pupil, student,
job applicant were a minority, they felt erroneously entitled to
privileges to which they honestly were not entitled.
Naturally, the latter is as bad as the former.
