Draggingtree Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 The New Media Journal : The Real Thing Nancy Salvato May 2, 2013 As a child, I really enjoyed candy and gum. Admittedly, I occasionally wax nostalgic about , Bub's Daddy Green Apple bubble gum, Regal Crown Sours, Swiss Colony Whiskey Sours, and Red Hot Dollars. Sadly, these products are no longer available – even in specialty stores. And this is not only because the items from my childhood are no longer marketed. Candy that has withstood the test of time has gone through many incarnations. Gum does not have the same texture and I find it tiring to chew. So much of what is sold as chocolate does not pass my personal taste test. Unless I can find a good Belgium chocolate retailer, I may as well find a good pastry shop to satisfy my sweets craving because what is being passed off as chocolate is awful. I have to qualify my generalization because Snickers and Hershey kisses still give a person a lot of bang for their buck, though they are not premium items. Unfortunately, children of today will never know the meaning of candy as defined in my formative years. It is not just candy that has gone through a negative transformation, though. In the five decades that I can categorize my lifetime, we've stopped referring to our system of government as a constitutional republic and instead speak of it as a democracy –with no consideration of the fact that our Framers despised democracy. As Walter Williams explains so succinctly in Are We A Republic Or A Democracy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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