How Is Dismantling A Century Of Progress “Making America Great Again?”
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by David P. Greenberg
In 1906, Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle.” Sinclair was a Socialist and the book is about the mistreatment of workers and immigrants in the meatpacking industry. But – as is so often the case – the book Sinclair wrote, and the book the public read, are two different books. What the public learned from The Jungle, was that our food industry was filthy and toxic.
In 1908, legendary Liberal Republican Theodore Roosevelt, signed the “Pure Food and Drug” act into law, in response to the public outcry to the revelations in Sinclair’s book.
Before the PFDA, the only protection Citizens had, was the maxim, “Caveat Emptor” – Let the buyer beware.
People used to sell, snake venom mixed with homemade grain alcohol and kerosene, as medicine. In 1880, the standard medicine cabinet in America contained 3 items. Cocaine, strychnine, and morphine. King Gillette hadn’t invented the safety razor until 1904, and contrary to every Western you ever saw, most men didn’t shave. That’s what Barbers were for.
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Coca-Cola got its name from its recipe. Kola nut syrup and cocaine. A popular wine was produced, by the name of “Vin Mariani” – wine of Coca. The term “Quack,” referring to doctors, came from the old name for Mercury. Quicksilver. In Old English pronunciation – Quacksalver. A “doctor” was someone who gave you Mercury as a treatment for everything from syphilis to depression.
If you were injured at work, you were not only fired – because what good were you to a boss, bleeding all over the factory floor – but your medical bills were your own problem. If you owed money to the Company Store – your family took on your debt and worked in your stead. That was if they were males. If all you had was a daughter, chances were good she’d be sold into a life of prostitution.
The “good ol’ days,” weren’t all that good.
Liberals – and YES, SOCIALISTS – were the ones who fought, and in many cases died, so you can have things like a 40 hour work week, clean, safe drinking water, food free of Botulism and Salmonella, and Health Care.
What do the “Pro-Life” advocates say to an infant mortality rate of 40%? That’s what we had in 1870. You know what changed that? Regulations. The “Nanny State.” Mississippi didn’t have compulsory education as a law until 1917. Of the 1M soldiers America brought into WWI, almost half couldn’t read. A large percentage of the enlistment papers signed in ’17 were signed with an “X.”
So which two regulations do you think we should eliminate? What makes this sophistry a good idea? Which part of the destruction of our way of life, don’t you understand? How is dismantling a century of progress, “Making America Great Again©?”
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I do not believe America will ever reach the point that is in people’s mind of greatness because it was never there in the first place. There is an illusion that people get when they think about the past and all of the accomplishments and good times that overlooks the bad things and the bad times. Therein lies the problem, people are looking for a time when there was nothing but good times while others are remembering the bad times. Trump has no idea what made America great because all he ever saw was “the good side of town.” Being just a few years younger than I we lived through the same times. He lived a life of wealth in the big city and I lived in a housing project in the South. While his father and my step father both likely worked hard his father made millions and mine made just short of enough for us to get by. He saw a great country because of all he had and I saw a great country because of what I enjoyed having. In general today people are largely spoiled and want things exactly the way the want them or they pitch a fit (that is a tantrum to the more learned of you). In the past some of us were glad for anything we had just because we did not think we were entitled to anything more. America is as it has always been but the expectations of people are changing and not for the better for a lot of them.
We are a dying empire. It will take time, but die we will, and painfully I suspect.
It’s just begun, our century, and already we are looking like a dying empire thanks to Trump.
“Dismantling a century of progress.” Stark, frightening reality. #fuckdonaldtrump
Nothing says the Orange Peel makes sense David. Nothing, and I don’t see that changing.
Yes, I know.