Interesting show on Netflix entitled, The Sixties. Nine or ten parts, I believe, each one covering approximately one year.

Fun to look back at the way we were, how much in turmoil we were as a country, how many people saw JFK's death as a turning point.

The episode last night was turbulent, deadly 1968, starting with Walter Cronkite's now famous report from S. Vietnam and his subsequent t.v. news broadcast calling the war unwinnable.

The episode covered the assassinations of Martin and Bobby, the resulting violence, the party convention madness that was Chicago, when Daley turned his animals loose on the population.

I wonder, 48 years later, if we have improved as a populace. We were deadly, angry, violent people then, have been since JFK's death. Not much seems to have changed.

We lost some astronauts on the way to the moon, then stopped going. Space station trips are okay, I guess, but I am not seeing the colonization of the moon. All those billions spent just to beat the Russians to a site we now do not care about.

It's good to take a step back and look at our nation's history. Events do repeat themselves. The lack of good timbre for presidential candidates today mirrors 1960, '64, and '68. Not much new.

We remain a nation divided, infatuated with violence as a problem and frustration-solving tool, putting about 33k of us in the ground annually and solving nothing in the process.

Blacks are still mired in endless poverty, angry, and blaming everyone else, having failed these 48 years to instill even the basics of decent family standards and social graces in their young, for too many of them. Our prisons overflow, our streets run bloody, our Congress does nothing, our Court uses no common sense, and our foreign born, Muslim-leaning leader plays golf and issues dictatorial executive orders.

This is NOT, how it is supposed to be.