Donald Trump has a slogan that says
“Make America Great Again”
My question is when people use that
term when do they think America was great?
Personally I think this country has
always been great. We have had a lot of times where there have been
difficulties, but that doesn't mean the country wasn't great.
When you ask the question of the people
who spout such nonsense to give you a time when they think it was
great you get nothing.
I am sure most of these people would
say during Ronald Reagan's terms as President. Of course we had
interest rates about 15%, unemployment that ran in double digits for
awhile. We also has a President who ran like a scared rabbit when
we lost over 200 marines in Lebanon. He also was illegally selling
arms to Iran. I guess maybe they wouldn't call that great if that
happened today.
We can go back to the 1930's which is
as far back that anyone alive today could possibly remember. We had
the great depression, 25% unemployment, and I am sure since the
President was a Democrat they wouldn't consider that great.
The 1940's we had the Second World War,
no one in their right mind would consider that great. And besides we
still had a Democratic President.
The 1950's We had a Republican
President, but we also had those very same Republicans on a witch
hunt for communists. I guess the people who want great would think
that was just fine considering some of the things they propose today.
We also had school children who learned to hide under desks in case
of a nuclear attack. People lived in fear. I can't see that as a
decade that was great.
The 1960's again we had a Democratic
President, but he was assassinated along with Martin Luther King, and
Bobby Kennedy, Republicans might think that was great, but no sane
person would. We also had the Vietnam war which was a disaster that
caused protests and riots.
The 1970's All I need to mention is
Watergate and all the unseemly thinks Richard Nixon was doing should
take the 70's out of contention for great, plus Jimmy Carter was
President for 4 years, a Democrat.
The 80's I have already mentioned.
The 1990's again a Democrat President.
The 2000's a Republican President.
9/11 happened, can't call that great. The economy tanked, can't call
that great.
Now we have a Democratic President who
the Republicans hate. They have no real reasons to hate him, so they make stuff
up. Can't call this time great.
I guess there really is no time that
the Republicans can actually point to as great, but like everything
else they do or say they'll lie, and after awhile they start
believing their own lies.
