Ex-Obama attorney general stuns: 'Exactly when did you think America was ever great?'

Ex-Obama attorney general stuns: 'Exactly when did you think America was ever great?' Link: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/eric-holder-when-did-you-think-america-was-great

A good question! What is your opinion? When do YOU think America was great, or, greatest?

You may change your vote, and please note that I have tried my best to make this a fair question, put forth without bias or textual manipulation. Have fun, and feel welcome to elaborate!

 

Eisenhower administration was when America was the greatest.

A very prosperous middle class who were the majority.

Most Americans were American nationalist.

Even a ditch digger or a burger flipper at the corner pharmacy lunch counter could purchase a home.

You didn't have to "Press ONE for English" and political correctness was cultural-marxism and Marxism was the enemy back when America was great.

Even high school kids (The Luckiest Generation) could go down and buy a freaking new car..-> http://time.com/3544391/the-luckiest-generation-life-with-teenagers-in-1950s-america/

 

Hey Poly.

America certainly was greater (by any reasonable definition of that word), before Donald Trump became president.

So I vote for "anytime before Trump."

 

Ayuh,.... That was also before LBJ destroyed the black family unit with his Great Society,.......

 

What he said.

 

I was just a elementary school boy when President Eisenhower was in office. I remember that my family liked him a great deal, even though he was a Republican and nearly all of us in Texas were Democrats. I also remember that my parents bought a new house, a new car, a house full of furniture, and we seemed to want for nothing, even though my father certainly was not rich -- and, my mother did not work. None of our neighbors' wives worked.

I tried to structure the offerings in a fair, unbiased way, and since the Trump Administration is still an 'open book' with just about anything possible, I did not offer it. I did not go back further than Carter because I knew I was "running out of room" and wouldn't have been able to go back further than Gerald Ford. Besides, nobody under the age of about 50 would really have had any memory of anybody before Carter anyway.

Full disclosure: I voted that we were great (and greatest) during President Reagan. During his presidency, we saw inflation in all prices drop dramatically, our economy started really BOOMING, the American Dollar was a strong currency, and we took positive steps to get totally rid of the greatest threat we faced -- the Soviet Union.

In my long life, nothing really could compare with the 1980's. We made money, we developed great careers, we grew strong, proud, prosperous, and we were happy after all those long, miserable years of Vietnam, phony 'gas' shortages, recession, wage-and-price controls that only controlled wages, and skyrocketing inflation.

How I WISH we could have another president like Ronald Reagan!

 

I think we may be confusing America's greatness with an evaluation of our own lives. America always has been great, always will be and our personal sense of it depends on the social structure. For that reason the post WW2 era probably fits most of our ideas of greatness. We came out of the war untouched at home, our industries were thriving while the rest of the world was rebuilding, largely with American made materials. My idea of the ideal social structure is the '50s because that was my childhood and how I still see America. My values are out dated.

 

FDR's administration.

 

Reagan by a country mile. Nobody else even comes close to giving America its greatest period in time in the last 100 years at least.

 

We were a much stronger and better country all the way around during the Reagan years. You would have to be brain dead not to see that. How many people did we have on welfare back then? How many homeless camps did we have then? Plus anybody wanted to work could get a good job and get ahead. No comparison in my lifetime.

 

The 80’s? Crappy music, lousy architecture, crappy cars, what was so great about the 80s?

 

Eisenhower years would be one of the better times. Stronger middle class earnings and very little National debt.

Starting with the Reagan times, the debt exploded (up 180% while Reagan was in charge ) government started using "fake" money to make their economic numbers look better than they really were. Violent crime was also worse around the Reagan years but has been improving for the most part since then.

 

Is prosperity the same as greatness?

 

It depends on what 'great' means. The truth is that The nature of this nation's greatness has changed from a moral and philosophical sensem to an economic and or military sense, then back again in cycles. We tend to gain then lose our focus and our perception of priorities changes and that underpin the form of our 'greatness'.

 

It is to the filthy rich.

 

Depends are a great product.

 

Eisenhower built FREEWAYS
not Toll Roads with funding from
the Eisenhower Tax Code that makes politicians today
cower in fear today.

The Eisenhower Tax code retained a Central Middle Middle Class.
A Factory manager made more than labor, but not the obscene disparity we see today.
A disparity made possible via repeated bipartisan Tax Cuts from
Saint JFK 1960.
Tax Cuts that barely amounted to "dinner and a movie" for us with loss of services and a dissolution of the
Middle, Middle Class with a new, smaller Uber Wealthy class.
A joke at the time was fear of a pay raise costing a net loss via boosting to a new tax bracket.

 

I don't mean to bad mouth Ike but I will offer this criticism of him.
There was a bad recession which hit the steel industry hard. Ike didn't like unions. He spent a lot of time golfing too.

When compared to reagan he was a great president, though.

 

When distributed most evenly
unlike the Clinton-Bush, Jr.-Obama 24 years.
What a rip off for real, working people.
Sanders knew it.
Trump knew it.
Bipartisan Party Leaders didn't or never admitted to it.
Working people were struggling harder to stay even for 24 years if not more.
Working people replied at the ballot box as UnFree Parliamentary gov't denies
when seemingly all their party leaders, don't get it.
Brexit When? Just Do It. See what I mean?
The date now expired yet, No Brexit.
Got Democracy?
Got It most!

 

Even though I don't agree with your opinion, I hate it.

 

There is more to greatness than money.

 

There is also righteous behavior
we all assumed was foreign policy in the Ike years
although the Dullus influences created otherwise
in the name of "containment".

 

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Right now. In 50 years, the #MeToo movement will be viewed in the same light as the suffragette and pro-choice movement for advancing women's rights.