I still have no takers for the "Make America Great Again" challenge

[ck4829]

There are plenty of Trump supporters who want to return to their imaginary past-America with no Muslims, liberals, gay people, or uppity black people who have the GALL of saying their lives matter.

But I can't find any Trump supporters who also want to return to REAL past-America with no air conditioning, no Internet, no 911 system to call on when they see a black person standing there "menacingly", no Twitter, a 50% chance of having no indoor plumbing, no antibiotics, and having a doctor who believes that diseases are not caused by germs but by an imbalance in the 'four humours'.

Anyone else want to take a whack at it?

[lark]

1. An America where even married women have no control over their reproduction.

My 2 grandmothers had 12 and 6 children respectively and in each family one of the babies didn't make it. I would have died after the 2nd baby and my sister would have died with the first non-viable fetus. Modern medicine saved our lives when we did get pregnant and helped us stay non-pregnant.

[mercuryblues]

2. A time when a husband could rape his wife

& beat her with no repercussions. When women were not allowed to take out a loan to buy a home, or lost the home when the husband died.

[lark]

3. A time where your legal first name was your husbands and you couldn't sign for purchases.

I went to get a pair of glasses in 1973 in FL and signed the check Sandra Sweat. It was a joint account for Steven R. Sweat & Sandra S. Sweat. The doctor said my signature was invalid since I was married. He tore up the check and demanded a new one signed Mrs. Steven Sweat. I refused because that was not my name, I had never used it and never would - my married name was legally Sandra Sweeting Sweat. He grabbed my glasses, put them in a case that he locked and said he wouldn't give them to me until I paid for them "properly". Even though I was blind without glasses and couldn't drive without them, I walked away. I went across the st. to get a soda and think. I saw him leaving the office so ran in and paid for them with a check signed Sandra Sweat and ran out of the office with them.

[mercuryblues]

4. I remember that kind of stuff

My uncle would sign a blank check for my aunt to go grocery shopping.

[mnhtnbb]

6. In 1972 I applied for a credit card

in my name only. I had recently been married. I got a phone call from the issuing company telling me my application was denied. Why? Oh, they said, your credit history was fine, but there were problems with the credit history of my new husband. WTF? I didn't apply for a joint card I said. Doesn't matter, I was told. You can't get one in your name only.



I was pissed.

[NewJeffCT]

7. I think it wasn't until a few years later

that a women could get a mortgage on her own - it either had to be with her husband, or with her father/uncle/brother's name on it as a co-signer. Before that was a no.

[llmart]

10. Similar story here.

In 1970 I worked full time and was married to a guy who was a full time college student with no income of his own. I made what was considered a very decent wage because I was secretary to the vice president of the company. Still couldn't get a credit card on my own record. I paid all the bills - the utilities, the rent, etc. but that didn't matter.

[virgogal]

5. I have to admit that

living without the internet wouldn’t bother me....I miss the more personal interactions,but I am old.

[virgogal]

8. MAGA has nothing to do with modern conveniences,which everyone

likes,absolutely nothing.

[ck4829]

9. LOL. Don't do their work for them

I want to hear it from them

And I like my multicultural extended family.

[Dave Starsky]

11. Those free-spirited days when you couldn't get a hotel room...

Unless you could prove you were married to the woman you were with. You could literally get arrested for that.