If only the TV series Mad Men wasn't true

My shortest blog to date.  Frank Rich wrote a great article in the New York Magazine on the perceived decline of America. Click on the link below to read it.

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/declining-america-2012-7/?mid=nymag_press

my take is that it was never as good as they would like us to believe.

I have been bothered for some time of this great fictional love affair people have with the good old days.  They may have been for a few select groups but for the majority of people life in America wasn't what it was purported to be.

I am not by any means claiming it was better somewhere else (it probably was if you were black or Jewish or a woman).  It just wasn't the idyllic world painted by Hollywood or Madison Avenue.
Read Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle".  In the more recent past - how about the Martin Luther King led civil right marches of the mid-60's.  Smack dab in the middle of the 8 year run of the Andy Griffith show American citizens were being sprayed with fire hoses and had police dogs let loose on them.

But enough about what I have to say - Frank Rich's article is much better than mine.  His focus is on the perception and he doesn't even have to point out the obvious like I feel compelled to.