06-29-2020, 05:39 PM
(06-29-2020, 10:42 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-29-2020, 09:58 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: ... I count the progressive era as lasting from FDR to LBJ. The conservative era runs from Nixon to hopefully Trump. LBJ by going after the black vote ended the time that America was Great.
Hopefully, the current rejection of racist violent policing marks a time where this might turn around.
I actually push the Progressive era through Carter, but that's it! Nixon was a scumbag, but he created the Environmental Protection Agency and opened the door to China. That has to count for something. Carter made the tragic error of being in the job at the wrong point in history.
The disasters, in terms of Watergate and the Fall of Saigon, started on Nixon's watch. America failing started a bit earlier. Still, it seems traditional that everything can be argued about here.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.