It's just bitter to think about how the economy hadn't been completely destroyed by then, the racial makeup of the nation was still 90% white, etc.
The cracks were showing sure. But we weren't anywhere near as bad as now. It's troublesome that I know for a fact that I cannot offer my children a better world than I had myself, because the generation before me sold us all out.
Same, and I was paying attention then too.
It's just bitter to think about how the economy hadn't been completely destroyed by then, the racial makeup of the nation was still 90% white, etc.
The cracks were showing sure. But we weren't anywhere near as bad as now. It's troublesome that I know for a fact that I cannot offer my children a better world than I had myself, because the generation before me sold us all out.
For me it's not that I thought it would last forever. It was that I assumed that was the default state of things.