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Targetpractice2/03/2015 7:06:29 am PST

re: #137 HappyWarrior

True to all of that. I think it’s frustrating. I think we deal with that and a bit of amnesia as a society about past achievements. Things like clean air, water, and food are definitely taken for granted for by the average American yet they’re all things that conservatives fought or rather continue to fight the regulation there of.

Josh Marshall over at TPM pointed to this poll

And pointed out that the reality is that the dividing line for people who seem to think vaccination should be mandatory as opposed to a choice is roughly around age 30. Then he ended on this:

I think the reality is that society seems to has lost the historical memory of various horrific endemic childhood diseases.

And I think it’s not just vaccinations, it’s a lot of issues. The Millennials and the generations after them are indeed growing up more open-minded, less racist, less homophobic, but they’re also growing up with no understanding of what life was really like even a generation ago. And it’s that lack of understanding that, I fear, is going to lead to our society backsliding as the forces who oppose all the progress of the last century play on the ignorance of the younger generations to dismantle it all.