NorthOfNorth wrote on Mar 2
nd, 2021 at 8:01pm:
Melanias purse wrote on Mar 2
nd, 2021 at 7:47pm:
Memories, no? My dad regales me with tales of pub fights back in the 60s. And I remember suburbs in Sydney you couldn't even go in the 1980s.
I remember wars between punks and skinheads, and I know people who were poofter-bashed close to death. Back then, you'd actually see groups of kids on trains on Friday and Saturday night, heading out for a blue. Back then, violence was literally a recreational pastime.
Modern Australia is far less violent.than it was.
Who knows? They say it has something to do with taking the lead out of petrol, but then, from what I hear, the 1920s and 30s were even more violent still.
Yes... It's never the times that were great when we look back... It's the fact we were young.
After all, the great depression and WW2 don't sound like compliments of the times from a Shangri La... But ask uber-geriatrics (if you can find them, they're getting rarer) and they'll tell you it was a bloody paradise.
Violent crime has dropped by over half since the 1950s. It's called the Great Crime Drop. It happened all through the Western world from the early 90s on.
Some put it down to taking the lead out of petrol, but prosperity has also grown. While wages growth has continued to stagnate after the GFC, it grew after the Hawke/Keating reforms - nearly 30 years of steady economic growth.
Part of that is liberal market reforms, but immigration has played a critical role. Far from creating violence, immigration has added to economic growth, and this has created a safer society.
There's no questioning these facts. We're living longer, we're richer and we're a far less violent society than we were in the 1950s.
What has changed is equality. Inequality of wealth has grown, becoming more concentrated than ever. This leads to the resentments posted by Moses et al. What they see in the politics of race is actually class. The Nazis exploited these resentments just as the Trumps and white nationalists do today.
Get busy living or get busy dying, leftards. From ancient Rome and Byzantium to modern Manhattan, London and Sydney, cosmopolitan cultural diversity has made us all richer, and ultimately stronger. We beat the Nazis, no?
We will make America great again, yes?
Abortion.