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MAGA and what it means

Make America Great Again


This is not asked in order to jeer, really I wondered exactly what section to post this in.

But I'm asking :- WHEN was America GREAT?

I'd like to know just what those in MAGA hats see as "greatness", what age are we talking about.

(I'm in the UK and often those who voted for Brexit seemed to have some sort of idea of a golden age in the past that was lost, and needed to be regained. The days of Empire! The spirit of the blitz!)

Was it when "men were men"? An age when someone born the very lowest could yet reach the very highest? Do we go back to the Wild West?

I read once a biography of Harry Truman. I was greatly impressed by the man. Maybe others would not agree.

Well, I'm rambling a bit, but my question remains - and I have genuine interest. Not looking for disputes and mud slinging.

Just asking. When exactly was America great, and of what did such greatness consist?

Thanks
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LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!


Was it perhaps when the vast majority of Americans could read this and not laugh at its sentiments? WAS there ever such an age?
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
During the time immigrants passed through Liberty Island and subsequently became citizens, the entire country wanted LEGAL IMMIGRATION only. It worked out well. @LesDawsonsPiano
LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79
@jackjjackson So the Christian/Jewish "welcome the stranger" has its limitations?

😀

PS Did someone send out a questionaire to the "Whole Country?"
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Why don’t you like LEGAL IMMIGRATION? @LesDawsonsPiano
LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79
@jackjjackson Never said I did not.
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LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79
@jackjjackson The totally free movement of people.

That would sort it out.

People would then REALLY have to start thinking for themselves.


😀
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
O borders then. How is that working out in Europe? @LesDawsonsPiano