What scares me about the passage of time.

[Chasstev365]

Most people under the age 45 have no concept of the golden age of the Democratic party and the accomplishments of the New Deal/Great Society (1933-1968) and all they know is the Reagan Revolution and beyond.

How will that effect the future of this nation? We need a new Democratic leader who can show them the way!

[enough]

1. Or maybe we need a new Democratic party that can figure out how to

bring about a way that works for the people. I say this as a life long Democrat, 73 years old.

I don't put much hope in the idea of a "leader" at this point. It has to be much broader than that.

[CrispyQ]

2. If you were born after 1980, all you've ever heard is that unions are bad.

I don't know if they even teach about the labor movement in high school anymore. Vacation & sick pay, paid holidays, safe working conditions, the 40-hour work week, health benefits - none of this came about because of kind-hearted management. Labor fought & died for these benefits.

[Solly Mack]

3. Remember the stories of Russia removing chunks of its own history to reflect

how the "Communist" (totalitarian) regime at the time wanted Russia to be viewed by subsequent generations - completely erasing large portions of history from memory as older generations die out.

To some degree the same has happened in America - with conservatives in Texas writing most of the textbooks, and how a settled point is turned into a debatable issue, thereby changing how events actually played out. Like torture, for example. As well as slavery, the labor movement, and civil rights in general.

How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us

Link included in case someone doesn't know of the harmful influence conservatives have had on public education across the nation.

Yes, there are other books available that give a better, more accurate, account of history BUT that first introduction and those first (alternative) "facts" learned in school from biased and fictitious textbooks carry the most weight for many. Those textbooks, reinforced by so-called news such as Fox and Breitbart, are all some will ever be exposed to - either through choice or conditioning.

So, really, it's a lot like the actual facts of America's history being erased. Deliberately so, to be replaced with a view of an America that never existed.

[Solly Mack]

4. That has bothered me for a very long time now.