[ LONG ] Make America Great Again, just like it was in 1957.

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I just found a couple of photos... all *from* 1957...




An another (undated - but I found a version of it with the year 1959 in it):


The Jesus figure in the window is a really nice touch, btw... It adds class and sophistication, doesn't it?

Interesting post and yep, i agree with Fnord in that i do not want to turn back time so that all the progress for various factions of human rights are lost.

It is hard to tell what President Trump means with his slogan "make American Great again",
although, if past events in history are anything to go by, the use of such a slogan is worrying.

The reason why I say this, is because Hitler also used a very similar slogan and strategy to gain the people's
vote, "make Germany Great again!".

A strategy that President Trump will surely have been aware of, and if not, his chief advisor and strategic advisor Steve Bannon was definitely aware of. (Steve Bannon, self taught self styled military and strategic advisor to President Trump and CEO of controversial company Cambridge Analytica).

One book that you may find interesting, is "The Bubble of American Supremacy" by George Soro's, which explains some of the problem that we are encountering in at the moment. Interesting read.

And then "Jesus And Mary" Came;
Yes, "Elvis Presley and Marilyn
Monroe"
Saving
The World
From Just 'Know'...
Just No And More NO!
Go Away 50's And Never
Ever Come BacK Now Shed
All Those CuLTuRaL Clothes
Keeping uS iN PriSoN Then YucK
Of Labels And Categories ColD... God YeS NoW
Breathing Free As Naked Winds Dance And Sing...

The 3 main take-aways on any truthful study of America in the 1950s are:

1) LGBTQ types lived under the Tyranny of Heterosexuals.  In the 1950s, your family could still involuntarily have you committed, so few gays wanted to risk "Coming Out of The Closet" for fear of entering an insane asylum.  Before the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973, aversion therapy was used routinely in hopes that it would prevent or eliminate homosexual behaviors.

2) Blacks lived under the Tyranny of Whites.  "Separate but Equal" has always been a flawed concept -- the "Equal" never measured up to the "Separate".  The schools that black youths attended were often poorly run and failing apart.  The health care black citizens received was often way below the standard offered in white areas.  The infant mortality rate in central Harlem was three times higher than that of white areas.  Black unemployment was more than double that of whites, and when they could find jobs, blacks earned half of what white workers earned.

3) Women lived under the Tyranny of Men.  Working women were paid much less than men and were largely regarded as submissive and inferior beings who were wholly defined in reference to their husbands and their husband's jobs.  Just 1.2 percent of women went to college in the 1950s; and, throughout the decade, the joke was that they were there to get their "MRS" degree - that they only went to college to find husbands.

This is the state that some people consider "Ordained by G^D" and to which they want to return -- such people have probably never really studied their Bibles, but only picked and chosen those parts that seem to support their homophobic, racist, and sexist ideology.

Straight, white males ruled 1950s America; and while they still do (mostly), they are finding their "privilege" of abuse and exploitation toward LGBTQs, non-whites, and women is being steadily diminished -- at least in public -- and they seem ill-equipped to deal with the concepts of "equality", "fairness", and "equal justice under the law".