1950s Nostalgia

Sounds a lot like today

White people need to be silenced
All men are bad
Trump's a Russian operative
We're going to war with NoKo
Lol at red scare... We have political leaders embracing communism

Rite

Corporate welfare is socialism for the super rich..... While the rest of us are forced to fend for ourselves in capitalism.... That's Fascism not Communism. And the Trump being a Russian tool is bs. Democrats and republicans are two faces of the same coin.

Now if we had a Republican like Eisenhower at least....

Wow... "Forced to fend for ourselves". Do you really want someone taking care of you???

Civilized societies have adequate social safety nets.

And you really need to look up the definition of facism

Are you saying America has no safety net??? You're ignorant if you think that. We have so much help available for the poor.

@Icey : "Corporate welfare is socialism for the super rich..... While the rest of us are forced to fend for ourselves in capitalism.... "

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Some or this is accurate in the present context. The only major piece of legislation in the past three years was a corporate tax cut which went primarily to stock- buybacks and did *not* stimulate business investment. The tax cut pushed our deficit over one trillion, and I guarantee the deficit will be used as an excuse to cut entitlements if Trump is reelected.

Something is wrong when top 400 individuals have same net worth as bottom 160,000,000.

I love people that need to be victims not realizing their lives are better than 90% of the people in the world. Talk to a refugee about escaping their country to get here and how amazing it is here. The church I grew up in was 1/3rd African refugees, I will never forget the girl that wouldnt leave our house for weeks without someone with her cause women got raped, kidnapped, killed where she was from or my friend yelling me about living behind 2 walls of security fences, and trained dogs to be safe. America is terrible to people here, yet millions of people want to come here because their lives will be better from every part of the world. But some people only live to be victims, spoiled kids dont realize they are spoiled compared to someone better.

Classic cars, stores closed on Sundays, 4 television stations, Saturday morning cartoons, riding bikes, paper boys, milk and bread men, less violent crime, very few single parent homes, more polite society.

I wasn't born in the 50s but I do remember Star Wars and the Reagan nutty x-ray laser defense proposal of the early 80s. I remember being preoccupied with WW3 and nuclear annihilation. That's what you get when you mix a senile TV actor with the reality of science and engineering. Even nuttier than building a wall to keep the Mexicans out...

Lol at "keeping Mexicans out"

Whoever said the wall was to keep Mexicans out? The wall is to keep people from entering the United States illegally. The USA is not the only country in the world that protects its borders. You guys make it sound criminal to prevent crime.

Go to bed tonight with your garage door open, your car unlocked, and leave the keys on the seat.

Reagan was ahead of his time. Laser weapons are only now becoming a reality. Defending against nuclear warfare was and is a reality. Anyone in the military up to the 1990s can vouch for the fact that real equipment and training time was provided to fight on a nuclear battlefield. We lost focus on this while we concentrated on fighting third world wars in the middle east. But with the Dems apparently focused on starting a war with Russia, it may be wise to pay some attention to this.

Should this be in the political room?

1950s America was great.

But no one is as great as 21st century Japan. 2,400 felonies committed in a country of 125 million people. There are more people murdered in Baltimore alone than in the entire country of Japan. On top of having the lowest rate of crime in the world, it has the highest life expectancy, a minuscule rate of obesity despite being a rich country, a legal, booming prostitution industry with very hot girls despite low prices, and of course, possibly the cutest and most feminine girls in the world.

I remember in the 1950s we didn’t even have a lock on our door. You could trust your neighbors and you had an account at the local store without a credit check, it was because you were neighbors.

Everyone wants to do well, they are not born lazy or drug addicts. They only get that way when frustrated and humiliated beyond the point of tolerability. The current political arrangement does not utilize the talents of our people. Instead it shuts people out, and then blame this on those shut out.

SJG

Some of you have myopic visions of society and are just intent on defending your class and race positions

^Its not entirely due to restrictive gun laws. Restrictive gun laws probably reduce it once all the other factors have been contained but restrictive gun laws alone will not do that. Mexico has very restrictive gun laws and that didn't do anything. Honduras attempted to control crime by cracking down on firearm ownership in 2007 and it did absolutely nothing. Crime has actually increased in the Honduras since 2007.

Restricting guns works once you have gotten everything else under control. It didn't work in Mexico and Central America because they already had a crisis of criminal violence going on. It has reduced crime in Japan because they never had a crisis of crime to begin with. The country has had very low rates of violent crime for decades. Gun control measures are unlikely to work in the United States because we already have so many guns floating around and we have a small crisis of criminal violence (although nowhere near as bad as Mexico's obviously).

Japan's success in having extremely low crime rates is really more of a cultural success. They have created a culture where crime is not seen as an option, and where excuses for crime are mitigated. I also will say that America has a rage problem that Japan doesn't have. There are a lot of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum who are extremely angry at certain groups of people. This phenomenon largely does not seem to exist in Japan. I'd say that curing the rage problem will go much further in reducing crime than restricting guns would.

^^ “Yes it is dipshit”!

Well there you go, the liberal left’s answer to anyone that disagrees With them. As a firs resort call them names even when they propose facts and intelligence. It’s people like VD_Kicks that will get Trump elected again. By the way, CC has never claimed to hold any political leaning. He is as Independent as they come, and sees things as they are, without political bias.

Good job CC, you’ve shown maturity beyond your attacker from the left, VD_Kicks.

If anyone here thinks that if guns were illegal in America and also thinks that criminals would then not use guns, well... I have a little surprise for you. Spoiler alert... Criminals don't obey laws.

^^^ rite

That's the problem with the gun control crowd is that they just think banning guns will solve everything.

@VH_Kicks

If Japan was to completely reverse their gun policy, I wouldn't be surprised if crime went up a little bit, but I'm willing to bet it would still remain at extremely low levels well below the US and Europe. Japan doesn't have the gang problem we have, they don't have ethnic tensions, they don't have political divisions, and family values in Japan are very strong so it cuts down on domestic violence. All of these factors are what has eliminated the rage problem that does exist pretty much everywhere else in the world. The criminal culture in Japan largely just doesn't exist. Even the Yakuza gangs only have 40,000 members across all of them and their membership is constantly declining because pretty much nobody has any interest in being a part of that lifestyle.

Japan, the UK, and Australia have all had relatively low rates of crime compared to the US for decades. The UK's crime rate has actually risen if you look further back in history. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the UK's homicide rate hovered between 0.60 to 0.75 per 100,000. The police infamously didn't even carry guns back then. During the 1980s, it was just starting to consistently breach 1.00 per 100,000. In 2002, it peaked at 2.1 per 100,000. Since then it has gone down to about 1.2 per 100,000.

Australia in 1989 and 1990 had a homicide rate of 1.8 per 100,000. A little higher than it is today but it still had a very low crime rate compared to the US. In order to go back to a time when the UK and Australia did have significant problems with criminal violence, you probably would have to go all the way back to the 19th century.

If the US outlawed guns, we'd be much more likely to face an increase in homicide rates than to become like a Western European country. The gangs would illegally keep all their weapons and all the lawful citizens would give their guns up. So as far as criminals go you'd accomplish nothing. If your country is already having a problem with criminal violence, then disarming the citizenry is a really bad idea. Disarming the citizenry is only a good idea when the reasons for criminal behavior happening in the first place have been addressed.

And this has something to do with 1950s nostalgia how ?

The amount of gun violence would be reduced if gun ownership could be severely restricted.



About the 50's, good book:
https://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Never-Were…

SJG

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