Great memories! Especially about the "talks" in the car...lol... We could talk about the cruising strip in Elkhart, but that's for another day...lol...
I will go out on a limb and say that things were definitely better back then, and even far better the generation before ours. The radical feminists, cultural Marxists, "higher criticism" set, professional psycho babblers, LBGTWRSJVUs, had not yet taken over and diluted the "ties that bind."
We had our disagreements, sure. But never about whether Communism was better than capitalism, or unassimilables made better immigrants than people who came here ready and willing to contribute, or what your genitalia said about your gender, or whether God should be worshiped or not, or whether the flag and The Bible should be respected or not.
These were simpler days. Simply better. We were a country, not a hodgepodge of hyphenated "Americans."
Yep, in those days if you were confused about your gender you looked in your pants to know for sure.
LOL... Which was largely un-necessary because we gave boy toys to little boys and v.v. AND, we didn't have change agents in pre-school talking about "gender options" to our four-year-olds.
And we used naughty words like He, She, Her Him. Why, because you are either a He or She or a Her or Him.
Never in my life would I have thought there could be confusion over male and female. Seemed like one of the most basic facts if life.
OK, help me out....I got some of the LBGTWRSJVUs but am darn curious about the rest of it.