What happened to the America that I grew up in?  I miss those days.

As I grew up, I was taught to treat adults with respect. I was taught to respect my teachers.

..I had respect for my family and, while my father passed away when I was six years old, Mom carried a big stick. Or should I say a wooden spoon. It left an indelible mark on my character and my outlook, and I appreciated her, and respected her for all her 84 years until her passing. She was a 28-year-old widow who raised five children (one girl, four boys) and did the best she could while working in a factory. She never gave up on us.

..I grew up in Chicago, but it was a different place than it is today. The school system enforced discipline, allowing us to learn. Most of us could write a letter adequately by the time we graduated eighth grade, since most of us would not end up staying in school long enough to receive a High School Diploma. Yet, we had common sense, and many went on to progress through the workforce to become successful in our workplaces and make a decent living. We did not eat Tide Pods because they did not exist, but we would have been smart enough to know not to eat them if they did exist. We did not need instructions that the cup of coffee we bought was hot, because that was common sense. Sense is not common anymore. ..Auto owners’ manuals explained how to adjust the engine valves, but today they tell you not to drink battery acid.

..Many went on to start their own businesses and become corporate CEO’s, regardless of not having a High School Diploma. Now, a college degree is no more than a High School Diploma with lessons in indoctrination. They are useless.

..Our nightly newscasts used to tell us what happened, and it was up to us to decide what that meant. Now, journalists and newscasters tell us outright lies, innuendos or falsehoods intended to manipulate our opinions and direct our viewpoints. Most legacy media is nothing short of propaganda arms of the democrat party. Sad, but true! Thankfully, podcasts, internet videos and commentaries and the like are replacing the legacy media. Even the White House has rearranged seating in the Press Room to put more modern-day media up close and moved the legacy media to the rear of the room.

..We grew up knowing that boys were boys, and girls were girls, and that nothing can change one into the other.

..We grew up believing in the sanctity of life and thought it a travesty that the Supreme Court manipulated the right of abortion from of the Constitution where there is no right stated. Wholesale manipulation of the Supreme Law of the Land, and viola, sixty-three million babies were aborted before that erroneous ruling was corrected.

…We learned the US and State Constitutions, along with our God-given rights, and we understood the three branches of government. You cannot control what you do not understand, and that is why we have the deep-state bureaucracy that we have today. Unelected bureaucrats have been allowed to fester and multiply for decades, and we pay the price daily.

We were lied to by our government, even then, and global cooling was the trend taught in schools. We were taught that we are headed into a pending Ice Age. In later years, it changed to global warming, and since they have no idea now, they are playing with the words like Climate Change. None of any of this has been proven, nor can it be at this stage, since our weather professionals cannot even get the weather forecasts for the week correct!

I could go on and on, but we all know that we must fix what is broken, but to do that, we must understand how we got here and not allow people to take us here again.