Making America "great" again?

Oh the good ol' days! How good were they? With the election rhetoric in full swing as the country nears the day when we choose the "next leader of the free world", this question has brought up images of violent discriminationary practices to before women had the right to vote. I have a bit of a different view of making America great again but I'm sure its not what a particular candidate is speaking about. Okay, let's make this country great again - starting with minimum wage earners being able to afford the basics like food, clothing, shelter, medical care and transportation. My parents bought a house, a car, furnished that house and paid the hospital "cash" for my birth with jobs that paid just cents more than minimum wage; that's impossible today. Make America great again, when a growing economy needed skilled workers of all sorts and strong labor unions ensured decent wages, safe working conditions, medical care and pensions. Make America great again when college students could pay their tuition with money earned from summer and part time jobs and they graduated debt-free. Speaking of colleges, remember when students demonstrated for peace and saving the environment, not protesting guns in the classroom. Make America great again, when Congress, state and local government officials cared about their constituents and not the lobbyists' money. Make America great again when our schools produced scientists and mathematicians at a higher rate than the rest of the world, when we invested more in education than in prisons, when science wasn't the devil's work! Make America great again and impose those safety programs that led us out of the Great Depression and stabilized the stock markets and guaranteed social security. Make America great again when companies stayed here and paid their share of taxes, when CEOs were happy making millions not billions by screwing their workers......  Let's make America great again by fostering a sense of patriotism that includes caring for ALL of us, not just some. Our children are watching, what is there for them to believe that this is the greatest country?