America before I Want to Hold Your Hand;
Children respected the opinions of their parents.
Parents controlled the living room television.
Young people were well groomed. No beards outside of Greenwich Village.
Black people kept to their own neighborhoods or lived in the South.
Mexicans lived in Mexico except when they were needed to pick crops.
Women took care of the children but did not have to work outside the home.
Gays were forbidden from teaching in schools.
No Black History Month.
No Women's History Month.
No Cinco de Mayo in the United States.
No such thing as trans rights.
Gasoline, coffee and eggs were cheap.
Secretaries made coffee for the men in the office.
Now with our new administration we are going back to those years before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. Everything that happened after that time will be gone, forgotten. We'll go back to the halcyon days prior to 1964. Men will have to start wearing ties again. Women will have to start wearing skirts again. The one exception is that women will have to take care of the children except now they will still have to work outside of the home.
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