Yeah, putting up with a bunch of ineffectual liberal morons is much more difficult then the conditions one would have lived with 1000 years ago. 
The people you rail against, Ptarmy..the list of psychopaths and miscreants you so fondly post here would have been heroes and executioners for their effectively cruel natures a century ago. I'll put up with a few bleeding hearts-as long as I'm alive, ideas can still be fought. That was a difficult battle for many centuries and still is less civilized countries because your life can be taken from you for challenging the top dog in the tribe, gang,nation, etc...Important to keep perspective,it really is.
JTY, I have to agree with you on most points.
Back in the early 1960's we kids found abandoned homes that we explored and I found at one home from the 1900's a bunch of newspapers from New York. Some of these papers were remarkably well perserved and I brought them home to read as I at that age liked history.
Dear Lord, the storeys of the life in the tenements back then, raids on social clubs that were attended by wealthy men into young boys they were sold to by mothers that could no longer feed them.
The carnage that went on, desperate woman that threw their baby's off the roofs of buildings as they did not want to watch the kids starve to death.
One reads the old papers of the time Teddy Roosevelt was mayor of NY and the steps he took to rid the city of an out of control police force,.
Today we have news of horror happening every day anywhere in the country. Back then mostly local news was reported in news papers for the people that knew how to read, and was local.
Along came radio and that expanded knowledge for both the readers and illiterate.----Then the TV to actually show the news.
Now we have the web that gives access to all news from everywhere 24/7.
All these atrocious acts have been going on for century's yet only now do we have a front stage seat. The things we thought impossible are now in our livingrooms and PCs.
One does not today have to go back 1000 years to see what was going on, less then 100+ years will do and it is documented in the news papers at the time.
Check out Hoovervill in NY, the outrageous living conditions of ex solders, or the attack on the service men and family's that camped on the White House lawn waiting for their promised bonus.
Fast forward to the late 1960's and the State of Conn. Any one be it Doctor, nurse or just a man or woman on the street found giving out any information on birth controll could be jailed for up to a year. to possess the pill was a crime except for military dependents that received them on base., and the pills could never go off Government property.
Here is how the military got around State law.------ Dependents that had given birth recently or just wanted the pill were informed that a bus, military would transport them to the base at a time and date.
I had arrived in New London with a 2 month old baby was lucky to get base housing. Coming from New Hampshire I could not understand this State law but boarded a bus to the base clinic. Here to my amazement I was told that I should never carry the pills in my purse or off government property.
I was told that off base in this state if I were to speak of having any kind of birth controll device to someone off base I could be arrested. WTF----
For the military dependents that lived off base this was a huge problem, were they to stash the pills in their medicine cabinate, someone could come in to visit. use the bathroom and snoop in the medicine cabinate and turn the woman into the police. One year in jail for having those pills.
Mean while old Dr. Leary was bouncing about the country giving out LSD to College Students.
I kid you not I have seen some weird shit in my life, had we had the PC nothing like this could have happend.
JTY, what now happens in the PC era is nothing as bad as what happened before the age of information.
I wonder if Ethel and Jules Rosenberg would have been put to death if we had the Web today.
