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[sophiawestern]

The America I saw in the 1950s forced homosexuals into hiding, ignored or derided the disabled, withheld rights from suspects of crimes and kept women in their place. It foisted prayers on schoolchildren, paid no attention to the health needs of the impoverished or the elderly and endangered endangered species. In certain states, it denied black Americans the right to sit where they wished on a public bus, drink from public water fountains, eat in restaurants, go to public schools with whites, or vote.

Tell this to kids today, and they think I'm talking about another country. I am.

Every one of these conditions has been corrected or improved by laws and attitudes derived from a philosophy that is held in such low esteem today that the worst insult one political candidate can fling at another is to call him or her a LIBERAL.

- Roger Rosenblatt