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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump wants to go back to the 50's "Happy Days."
Well, those days weren't so happy for women or minorities and we WILL NOT GO BACK!
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Trump wants to go back to the 50's "Happy Days." (Original Post)
Kath2
May 2017
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dalton99a
(81,570 posts)1. It's further
Rhiannon12866
(206,006 posts)3. In behavior as well as appearance...
SeattleVet
(5,479 posts)2. More like the 1954 and the Army-McCarthy hearings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmyMcCarthy_hearings
duncang
(1,907 posts)4. I think it more robber baron days.
When they paid workers in company scrip instead of money. And you could only redeem them from company stores. They were useless if you left the company. And made a new form of indentured servants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
33taw
(2,447 posts)5. Let"s start with the tax table of 1955. Top rate 91 percent for income over $400,000.
randr
(12,414 posts)7. He wants to go back to the 30's
In Germany.
And that scares the hell out of me.