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Comments on: The Good Old Days https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/04/11/the-good-old-days-2/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/04/11/the-good-old-days-2/comment-page-1/#comment-51704 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:00:25 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=13827#comment-51704 The thing with Everett Dirksen is that he was a good man with some bad ideas. In those days the ideas were attacked, not the people. No one attacked politicians families, or questioned their sincerity, just their policy. That’s one of the reasons that the McCarthy problem lasted so long – no one was willing to questions Joe McCarthy’s motives until the end.

These days actual policies get scant attention, it’s all about personality, so you get Barack Obama and Sarah Palin as major political players.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/04/11/the-good-old-days-2/comment-page-1/#comment-51703 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:31:27 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=13827#comment-51703 Even in my own childhood, I remember thrilling to the 4/$1.00 hamburgers from the Someburger (chain? what chain?) a couple blocks from home… and they were big, satisfying hamburgers; two would fill a growing boy. Yes, that “million here” was indeed real money then.

Despite his extreme political ideas, Dirksen was reportedly a deeply decent guy. He obviously believed his job was governing, not arranging to sweep the next election for the GOP.

“Still, when I think of the road we’re traveling on / I wonder what went wrong.” – Paul Simon, American Tune

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