Yeah the Mayberry 1965 where blacks had to ride on the back of the bus, use separate restrooms, sit in the back of the movie theatre.
Oh baloney.
Women had little job opportunities and rarely could escape the daily grind in most cases and very little help to escape a abused spouse.
More baloney - My great aunt, never married, left a 50 flat apartment building to our greater family which has paid for college for everyone who came after me.
Religious dogma was so strict a woman thought she would go to hell if she left her worthless husband
More baloney. No fault divorce is precisely what wrecked the place. The result? poor single-parent women, poor bastard children, poor men destroyed by alimony and child support, and a burgeoning federal government, taxing the crap out of everybody to pay for ever more poor women, bastard children, and destroyed men.
Sexual molestation was covered up and hid away. No help for the abused.
Like there's less of a sex abuse problem today?
No vested pensions laws yet so companies would fire a worker or workers a week before retirement so they did not have to pay out the pension
Right. Now the companies go broke because no one can sustain a pension system where two are retired for every one working. And the pension fund goes to the lawyers.
No air conditioning.
I have never had air conditioning. I take that back - I have a minivan that has it, but the belt to the compressor has been busted for years.
Very little education opportunities beyond HS unless your family came from means.Smart people stuck in dead end manual labor jobs.
My entire family is only high-school educated, until my Great Aunt died, and established a college fund... My sisters and my brother went to college, as did two of my aunts. One of my sons, and probably both of my daughters too... That's it.
Every one of them from my great-grandfather on down are entrepreneurs, to include me. All of them, every one, is successful at their business, to include me (until illness took it all). All of them made their own retirement, only three in my entire family (somewhere near 50 houses in the Greater House) have become divorced (again, to include me).
Smart people don't get stuck. Smart people DO.
1965 Mayberry was not as great as you make it remember.
yes, in fact, it was.