Fareed Zakaria: 'Golden Age' GOP Promises? Never Existed
For my money, this is the best video of the morning for this particular Sunday.
Fareed Zakaria takes apart the Republican Party's view of America as somehow collapsing as compared to the 1950's and 60's. He points out that in terms of energy production, the terrorism rate, the homicide rate, victimization of children, the unemployment rate...
...and EVEN the migration from Mexico into the United States, which is now ZERO...
The United States is far better off than it was in the so-called "golden age" that Republicans promise will rise again if they are in power.
"I know that fed on a diet of hype, hysteria, and relentless attacks, people don't feel this way, but it is time to point out, that doesn't make it true. Facts are facts. There is no "golden age" to go back to. What America do we want to return to? The 1950's when marginal tax rates were 91%, and in many states women could not become doctors and lawyers, and African Americans couldn't sit at the same lunch counters as whites? The 1960's where the country was consumed by war and crises? The 1970's where stagflation robbed the average American of income and opportunity?
America IS great. A country of openness, diversity, tolerance, and innovation. Of course it has problems, as do all countries, of course it can be greater still. But not if it succumbs to anger, hatred, division, and despair."
Zakaria expands upon these thoughts, tying them directly to Trump's Republican Convention, in The Washington Post: