[quote author=Herbert link=1370231974/388#388 date=1450296062] Wrong!
We older folk aren't ready to be warehoused yet! In the 50's we had the formula right. Socialism wasn't a rampaging bushfire as it is today.
Socialism isn't the problem today, it's a solution.
The kids still had respect for their elders built into them.
Flogged into them, don't you mean?
There really
was a Conservative Party in both the UK and Australia - not the
faux 'Tories' we see today that are nothing more than the rightwing of the Labour party.
Well off-base there. One thing these pieces of faeces are NOT is a Labor faction (although Labor has its share of right-wing tools as well).
Crime was still a punishable offence that attracted decent sentences that fit the crime and met the expectations of the public.
It still does - in fact crime figures are dropping over most offenses. People are going to jail for misdemeanours, victimless crimes like drug use, or mental illness. Now, if you're talking about crimes like rape, murder, armed rob etc, then I'd have to agree.
Hangings wuz still in fashion in them days. (Good morning, Bobby. I trust you slept well?)
Hanging is barbaric and uncivilized, and lowers you to the same (or lower) level as those you 'execute'.. No country which practises state-sanctioned murder has the right to be called civilized.
Politicians were still thinking in terms of prioritising the needs and wishes of their indigenous voting public - with a care for preserving the generational identity of Western nations.
Ah! The White Australia policy. Thank Christ THAT got abolished!
Schools were still being taught the 3 'R's - and were unashamedly monoculturally Anglo-British or Anglo-Australian without any PC knee-bending to 'multiculturalism' in the classroom.
Yes, and the kids WERE all the worse for it. In fact, it goes a long way towards explaining the parochialism, xenophobia and resistance to change that many older Aussies exhibit.
There was one flag on the classroom wall - not a dozen to 'represent' the immigrant kids there.
See my previous comment.
There were virtually no mosques, no hijabs, and no city streets blocked with hundreds of aliens kowtowing to their foreign god.
Not mosques, perhaps. But there was growth of many other 'non-traditional' churches and religions - some were accepted, some igored, and some actively discriminated against. So, nothing really new there.
The police did their job without any let or hindrance from 'cultural sensitivity' directives.
The police were often thugs, drunks, bullies or out-and-out criminals who used brute-force to intimidate anyone they thought they could.
A man's wages was enough for the wife to stay at home and look after the 2.75 kids.
Only just, in many cases. My mom returned to work several times between 1959 and 1972 to boost the family's finances. That's not counting the fact that she did the books for Dad's business for nix, to save the cost of him having to pay a clerk.
Politicians took their instruction from the public - not the other way round as it is today.
Yes. And no. While they don't take their instructions from the public, nor do they themselves dictate to the public - well, not directly. They relay the demands and wants of big-business and big-money.
Universities didn't turn out graduates who needed to do an English Grammar (and spelling) evening course for 12 months as a pre-condition for being accepted as an apprentice legal secretary in a law firm.
I have to give you that one, unreservedly. I left school at the end of Year 10 (4th Form) in 1973, and my spelling, grammar and comprehension runs rings around today's school-leavers. Yes, I was in the Advanced classes and got an Advanced in the Sch. Cert. , and yes, I was lucky enough to score some absolutely inspiring teachers, but still.
... and the rest.
And then the universities across the Western World fell into the hands of rampant socialists
A myth, rabidly propagated and fertilised by conservatives. Not actually factual.
who were only a tiny minority of the total population - but just as with Islam today,
Well no - nothing like Islam today really.
these radicals
You DO realise, I hope, that it IS possible to be a socialist or have socialist leanings WITHOUT being a radical. It's true, you know.
dictated the agenda to the exclusion of any one else 'getting a look in'. Their influence was complete.
You can check with The Grappler on this one if you wish, but from my point of view (step-dad of 4 kids, dad of 1)watching their schooling (1986 to1998) the biggest 'evil influence' has been lrabid feminists.
They predominated in key positions - with the result that they developed highly successful socialist 'madrases' within these campuses which produced clones of themselves on conveyor-belts that led to positions of power in politics, the media, the law courts, the teaching professions ...
See above
The 'Long march through the Institutions'
of conservative imaginations
had begun .. with the result that we see today.
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