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How refreshing this was. Tells it like it is.

In reality, the socio-economic phenomoa known as the 1960s REALLY began with the Kennedy Assassination and ended with the Arab Oil Embargo in 1973. The first 3 years of the 1960s were really an extension of the 1950s

Adrienne, I’m progressive and I think my political beliefs, in order are; 1. Human life/safety 2. Freedom 3. Financial security 4. Education 5. Pursuit of Happiness When your party preferences changed how did your values change? Thanks.

45:00 Slogan: Housing is for people, Not investors.

The Trump version leaves out, even a facade of respect from young men around women. It's shocking to me how crude males who have latched onto Trump mania. Instead of taking responsibility for feeling rejected by the opposite sex, they're lashing out and painting young women as being gold diggers and 2 dimensional. Women seen as the enemy rather than having to deal with the same insecurities. It saddens me to hear how twisted young men can be. They never have to feel predated on the way, even girls are. We've had to be wary of men from such a young age and that's so deeply immoral and wrong, then grow up to deal with viral videos "your body, my choice". Many of us already know that control exerted upon them by adult men as prepubescent girls. So back the eff off. Be kind, show respect and you'll eventually gain the regard of women.

22:30 Rosie the Riveter, Pamala the Pilot, Wendy the Welder, Trisha the Truck driver, Carrie the Crane operator, Connie the Construction worker, Brenda the Bricklayer, etc.

Look at all of the women from her generation and the immediate changes they made in the late 60s and early 70s. They were the ones who grew up in the 50s.

Great video. Truly. Thank you.

You can't go back in the past, because everything new could never work like that. Chld abse was normal, wages were many times higher, free range k!ds? Not today! Jobs aplenty, not today. Cheap everything, fat chance. Toys were extreme, fun, and ☠️, but lawsuits aplenty today. Jim Crow, really? Endless BS. Perhaps we should find a 1950s time porthole for those nastalgic people, and send them through, to have them regret it.

If only we weren’t so tribal and were willing to share.

- [ ] Equality is much easier for the affluent and well educated. - [ ] Equality always feels like a loss to the people who were previously unfairly ahead.

I’m 38 my great grandmother would tell me stories from the time she was born in 1929 on upwards… she never reminisced about the good ole times… her life wasn’t great….

Oh, must every discussion be about white privilege?

Fantastic. Looking forward to the rest of your videos. I love it. 61 y/ o here wondering what happened. Hearing the history through your mom's experiences and voice is excellent, she explains everything so well and is relatable in her personality. Thank you.

You don't know what president Trump is thinking. You are full of it😊

This lady is brilliant,

I LOVE YOUR MOM. Sadly, writing this after they voted the clown show back in. Oh, & I am from the BEAUTIFUL STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA!!! noem 🤮and she grew up on a farm not a ranch. Eastern state is farming. Maybe she is confused due to Corey L won’t stay off her 🤷‍♀️

I am glad I watched this. Your mother is right. Yelling, or being condensending to someone is no way to convert them. It will only make them dig in deeper. I am so glad I watched this. It brought back some memories I would like to forget. This was great.

Television is one of the most valuable things to keep people informed. We have lost that. I don't know what we can do now. There is no news on national TV that I would trust anything they tell us anymore. I don't know the answer.

Holy wow. You totally just stopped me in my tracks. I grew up in rural Central New York in the 90's. My mother is a feminist at heart and my sister and I didn't put up with much from the boys. The boys called me femi-nazi all through high school. Never heard that term outside of that. Obviously they must have heard that from their fathers

Personally I don’t “believe” anything. I know certain facts but the idea of believing presupposes fallacy. You believe in Santa Claus. You believe in God. You don’t believe that 2 + 2 = 4.

Your mother is so right and so true. I was born in 1944. She is right that liberals are not really liberal. I hold quite a few very conservative ideas. But I believe a country with so much riches and help our poor and the black people that were still being terribly mistreated.

She is right about the religion. People like me who did not believe in any religion. Now I did not believe that religion should be abolished. Just it had no place in government and that forcing children in PUBLIC SCHOOLS a Christian prayer had to be said every morning and even the Jewish, and Budist kids had to do this. Now people like me, did not care if the Catholic made their student fourtimes a day to say prayers. So the church lied and said that is what we were trying to do. And we were accused of being communist because we wanted the church and the state to be separated as the constitution said. So the religions made it so that people like me to be terrified to even admit they did not believe in religion. It was a trying time for everyone. And as your mother said all the welfare programs were always communist things and we should not. McCarthy was a disgrace. He was a witch hunter and he ruined a lot of people's life for not good reason.

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You had to score very high on the Regents Examinations to get into City College.

I love your mom and the relationship between you two. I would love to hang out with your mom, but this is the next best thing 😊

This really helps me understand how so many people fall in line with the conservative storyline.

Interested to hear what you and mom have to say after the dreadful election.

I think this was so great and so educational. We as a country don’t know our history and it allows the special interest to play us. I think of the next four years and I’m terrified, scared and angry. And I’m mad the Democratic Party screwed this up - you are right they are awful at messaging .

Imagine all the things we lost because women and black people were not allowed/able to get a higher education. This is no telling what they could have done or invented had they been allowed.

What is your catholic faith like now?

We were middle class. My dad worked, my mom did EVERYTHING IN THE HOME! MY DAD DID EVERYTHING OUT SIDE. We took vacations every year, a house. We had big family parties and get togethers. Christmas was filled with piles of presents. We also had one phone with a really long cord, one TV, one vehicle! Children took the bus, trains or walked. Do you think anyone these days will live with a TV with out so many options, no cable, no streaming, gameing? Live without your own cell phone or vehicle! Because of all of our expenses these days we can NEVER GO BACK. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. Both men and women need to work and still can't meet expenses. We are so spoiled now. Think it through!

So only countries want power? Or is it countries with power want more, or not lose power?

No more talks with mom?

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The 50's bloomed from the complete pile of 💩 that we call the 30's. The 20's/30's were so bad that those who grew from them and had their own kids in the 50's wanted to give them a way better childhood.

Please make more.

This is absolutely brilliant, and SO important for us to keep discussing. An entire nostalgia politic has been crafted around the ideal of the 1950s Americana. It’s a toxic one, whose push towards such will only disenfranchise whole swaths of people in a futile attempt. You can’t get back to an era whose unique circumstances created it, and didn’t involve sharing its wealth with everyone anyway. We have to punch holes in the rose colored spectre. I hope you’ll do more of these. It’s even MORE important now that Trump won. And please please more of your mom. She’s just brilliant! 👏

Oh and teen pregnancy was extremely high. It has not been higher since. The baby boom included a lot of pregnant teens.

Thank you! It’s going to take a while to wrap my head around this! But… thank you thank you thank you.

Sorry, she is not the poster child for this baby boomer.

This is an excellent presentation, it describes the context, and it illuminates how political opportunists utilize fear to manipulate the masses. And it is also a great example of projection : The Republicans couldn't be trusted, and so they fostered the view that anyone who wasn't in lockstep with them couldn't be trusted.

The 50s may have been fine for those who were white and Christian. Not so much if you were black, mixed, Jewish, Asian, Native American or some other minority. And G-d help you if you were gay... And if you were a woman who was in an abusive environment or one who couldn't fit into the role...

I agree with 100% of what you said. And I’m not happy with the outcome of the election. But who are we kidding that Harris and Walz could have changed things? They’re as dependent on corporate donors as the Republican party candidates. The majority of government policy that is enacted in this country is now orchestrated by big industry. How do we get Citizens United repealed? I worked my tail off for Bernie Sanders, an uncompromised politician who was the obvious choice of the majority. And the Democratic Party sabotaged him. We’re getting what we asked for.

It’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face.

This just popped in my feed. Please, do more of these with mom. I'm 57 from south jersey full blooded Italian catholic family who never would talk about anything. I need your mom's experience. It's so very vital and important.

Go raibh maith aghaibh as an bhfíseán. Now that Trump has won and ground hog day on steroids is about to explode, I do wonder and hope that you will return with a new video. Your stories are important. They are lived history. It seems the majority of young people voted for Trump (People made apathetic by the system, whatever age, don't vote). Peopled were energized by "cleaning" your country and a return to regimentation. They want to be lead to a new promised land. The question: it there a plausible promised land that is economically viable and not based on totally immersed self-interest, war, fear and hate - an imperfect world that normies can navigate?

HouseWife? The reality was Mrs. House SLAVE! 1953 here. I knew my dad was in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and fought in the Pacific against Japan. He spoke very little of his experience. He did belong to the VFW. We got piecemeal snipits of what happened in WWII Nothbmy parents were practically teens in1929 when the stockmarket crashed.

I grew up in a working class Canadian household in the 1950s. It definitely wasn’t a golden age. Whenever I hear those people who wax nostalgic for the 1950s, I can’t help but get angry with them, because they actually know nothing an about the 1950s. I want to shake them and tell them to study history instead of basing their opinions based on sitcoms from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Im a gen x raised in the San Francisco bay area. Raised by hippies. I will never support the progressive ideology.