I was just about to nudge you and yell, 'look alive', but you have beaten me to the punch.
Did it well, too, imo.

Ha @freebornangel ... probably telekinesis or something like that; you made my fingers start tapping at the keyboard.

My purview says you lived during a time freedom was still an option.
When seatbelts were for sissies, and dui's got escorted home, not robbed.
Those days were gone where i grew up in the 80s.

You are so correct friend; I was fortunate to live a short time in an 'America' which was quite different in nature. The fifties and pre-late sixties were very similar, and in looking back, I wish it could be the same in many ways (people conscious)- 'WITH' our current advancement in technology.

Yes, the Cops were very different back then, even with some on the take ;>/ They used 'discretion' much more/better when handling situations; and they were not trained to keep firing their weapons at a threat until the body 'stopped moving'...I think 'overall' there existed more 'compassion for our fellow human beings.

I once had a turn of the century (1900) NYC Police Manual which I think I gave to a family member who was becoming a cop...One of the rules I remember was - 'Upon coming across a man drunk on the street, escort him home to his wife...' Kind of reminds me of 'Andy of Mayberry' with Barney Fife, and this was 'NYC'.

The sign of the 'times to come' were very much there by the start of the 70's...in large cities like New York. What seemed to be the right things to support socially and politically on the 'Liberal' front (of which I was at the time) turned out to be disastrous.

Not sure how much of this was planned, as opposed to how much just went wrong...but, in the 'people' sense, it all went South so to speak...all of it...wages compared to cost of living, Union support of workers, constitutional rights, general freedom of movement, crime rates, lopsided penalty sentences, so, so much...It is a sad thing to have witnessed.

So, yes...you are right. By the eighties, the most self-serving, psychopathic, malevolent individuals had grasped the most power here, as well as world-wide and it has just continued that way since. Today, both sides of the 'peoples movements' are confused and duped every day. The controlling malfactors, 'shadow masters' have successfully unleashed such a barrage of convoluted, twisted truths upon the masses - hence...we remain divided and conquered.

I probably should have made a separate post in reply, but hey...had to get it out while it was fresh in mind and heart.

Thank you my friend...Nice to hear from you.

Ciao