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Here's what I know. When everyone smoked we were a better
people. We won wars. We executed traitors. Nobody had
health insurance, because medical care was affordable, and negotiable.
Granny still lived to 90, gramps to 92. Not a single democrat in
congress today could have been nominated, let alone be elected.
The television code would not allow a married man and woman to be shown
in the same bed. Nobody burned the American flag, because nobody would
publicly disavow their counttry - to do so put your life in danger. The
letters "ACLU" strung together were so ugly they carried the same
onus as ''communist," or "Nazi." Politicians were put-down in
debates by being accused of paying dues to them. Children said
the Pledge of Allegiance, and
listened to a bible passage every school morning; nobody was
traumatized by it. Having a child out of wedlock ended any public
career. Everybody celebrated Christmas, if only as a season of joy and
good will, and giving.
All of that changed once the smoking Nazis came to power. What am
I to think? America will not be great again until the Marlboro song is
played on every television show. Who's got a match?
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