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American is not a better country than it was in the 1950s

There are many people in the United States that claim the country is better today than it has ever been . The country has undergone two centuries of transformation , as people have increasingly gained more and more rights and freedoms , technology has made the lives of all Americans markedly easier , and its citizens have elected its first African-American president only a century after slavery ended . However despite all this progress , it comes with a significant cost as people are forced to deal with threats like terrorism , unchecked scientific experimentation , and the dissolution of

the American nuclear family . It seems that much of the current line of thought in the American public came during the social revolution of the 1960s , when sex , drugs , and rock and roll were used in conjunction with far more important social issues . The social rebellion of the 1960s , along with the unpopular war in Vietnam , gave way to the depressing decade of the 1970s , and the selfishness of the 1980s , which still seem to have the public in its grasp in the quest for empty consumerism . For a look back at a time when America represented the ideals that country was founded upon , one would have to look all the way back to the 1950s . During this decade America took its place as a respected world leader , family values were still strongly in place , consumerism and technology were used to advance the country and humanity in general , and while there were still threats to the safety and...

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