We walked on the moon multiple times, but haven't been back, and it was closer to their time than ours.
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We stopped taxing the rich.
I believe it would almost impossible to comprehend how massive the internet is, and how it is used by everything from washing machines to entire banking systems
"You can't smoke in here, sir."
Media literacy and its [lack of] spread to myriad methods of communication in an instantly connected world.
Once they get that they’ll easily understand why we don’t have flying cars and utopian cities.
Black people live around them, work with them, and use all the same facilities they can use. The civil rights movement wasn’t until the late 1950’s, and into the 1960’s. This (in)famous photo of Ruby Bridges attending a historically white school was taken on November 14, 1960.
It’s also a good time to remind people that boomers were born in the late 40’s and through the 50’s. The early boomers 100% remember when it was illegal for black people to use the same restrooms or water fountains. For reference, this is the same generation that was screaming behind Ruby Bridges.
That the USA is closer to fascism then ever before. i would imagine that for someone how still views WWII as recent, it would sound kind pf crazy that the nation that destroyed the fascist Nazis is going over the same mistakes.
Stop beating your wife.
Inflation.
Civil Rights Acts