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It cracks me up when I hear political candidates, pundits, or everyday folk say, we need to

return to the glory days where traditional values reign.

Really?

Okay, when were the glory days that you speak of?

The glory days of prosperity and health and traditional values?

What decade in the history of America do you deem as the best decade, economically,

socially, and culturally?

Think about that for yourself.

Which decade would you pick?

Well, across generations, across all socio-economic groups, people overwhelmingly point to one decade,

the 1950s.

Is that the decade that you were thinking about?

The 1950s is remembered as, quote unquote, the golden age of middle-class prosperity in

America.

At least it's how it's remembered.

What's fascinating to me about the nostalgia for the 1950s is how easy it is to disprove

that assertion, that we were better off than we are today.

By almost any economic or social or societal measure that there is, the median American

household and our society as a whole is so much better off today than we were in any

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