The truth hurts me.  We are not the people I thought we were.

I am 71 and think I will die before America will ever see what it once was, a light in the world in 1918, with POTENTIAL for good that was unmatched in any time.  Then there was Eisenhower!  What a president, with wisdom and maturity unseen since.  While some have judged "Ike" as not so great as President, at least he seemed like a good man, a true man's man, a father you could respect with a legacy that makes Trump look like a total ass-hole, a bastard, criminal, bully, the anti-Christ.

There are a lot of comparisons to 1918 that make 2018 look good, but they are not culture or political comparisons.  Culturally 1918 had flaws as many blacks were lynched and women could not vote while people for peace were beaten, but the POTENTIAL for good was there.  People's choices in 1918, political choices were botched, we f**ced it up, the potential was lost, but the possibilities of that time for the United States doing good is so tantalizing I cannot help but wish for a do-over of 1918!

Woodrow Wilson almost pulled it off, even while being an overall idiotic racist, with a vision of the United States role in the world that was beautiful, even while likely impossible to fulfill.  Yes, it was a fantasy, but what a great vision! 

At 71 I feel almost depressed that my country was never the country it wanted to be, it said it was, and it tried to be.  We did not try hard enough to be good.  Truth is we have always lied, for the most part, about being good.  We lynch and murder blacks, and, then the white people say some white people get killed too . . . an choose to ignore the and find a logic and rationale for the disproportionate killing and imprisoning of blacks, and other ethnics.

White people like being dominant.