The Comity of Eras

[Louisiana1976]

"Fast away the old year passes" as the old carol goes. And it is at this time of the year that my thoughts turn to family and friends who have left us over the years and the memories of them and the times we shared. And I marvel and grieve at how the world has changed over the decades of my life.

Born in 1946, my first experience of society and my fellow humans was shaped by the era of peace (save for the Cold War) and prosperity that was the 1950's. America was governed by men and women who had endured the hardships of the Depression and the horrors of a World War. As their sons and daughters returned to peacetime America, the unifying ethos was to make the world better for the generations yet unborn. The Republicans and Democrats squabbled and fought on the floors of Congress but when the day was done, they were still fellow citizens and the pettiness and acidity of political discourse were left behind the doors of Congress.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/30/820398/-The-Comity-of-Eras....

[damntexdem]

1. Well, unless they were Americans hauled before Congressional witch hunts.

The HUAC was not known for comity -- probably would have thought that 'comity' was a Communist front. ;-)

(And I was also born in 1946.)