The Good Ol' Days
There were no good ol' days. The world has not gone to hell. Things are not worse "now-a-days." To what utopian past are the people who make these claims comparing the present? When people talk about how bad things have gotten on the floor of Congress, that politics have "gone down the drain," do they really not know United States History? Do they not know that Charles Sumner was beaten with a cane on the Senate floor? I'm sure they are unaware that he was preceded in being beaten with a cane on the floor of Congress by Matthew Lyon , Horace Greely and Josiah Grinnell . That didn't even include people like William Stanberry who was caned in the street by Gov. Sam Houston or the multiple fistfights and brawls that have broken out in Congress. Those are just the canings. Do these people, who look back to America's Glory days, back before we supposedly "lost our way," consider it glorious to shoot political rivals to death? Accor