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In reply to the discussion: A Romney presidency will NOT take us back 50 years [View all]MineralMan
(146,308 posts)4. 1962, eh? The civil rights movement was just getting underway and
blacks were still being lynched. Contraceptive devices were still illegal in many states or had to be marked, "for protection from disease only." Women were still being prosecuted for having abortions, and those illegal abortions were unsafe and killed many women. Women's pay was hugely lower than men's for the same work. Smog was choking cities like Los Angeles, and my father was building a fallout shelter under our house. Cancer of all types was still a death sentence.
No, things weren't good then at all, unless you were white, a man, and had a good job.
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I think he is trying to say it would be even worse than 1962, not saying that 1962 wasnt bad
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#27
While most of your post is a nice read, I just can't let those last 2 paragraphs go unanswered.
DRoseDARs
Nov 2012
#31
Romney would take us places none of us have ever been reserved for Central Europe in the 1930-1945
gordianot
Nov 2012
#7
The post you are referring to was not intended to be a historical comparison between now and
plethoro
Nov 2012
#12
Everyone I know has started preparations, from cursory to exhaustive. I am in the middle....Good
plethoro
Nov 2012
#24
Take it back about *150* years and you'd have that about right - The Robber Baron/Gilded Age
We People
Nov 2012
#33