Our standards have fallen since ‘Gone with the Wind’ 

 In a recent pod cast that Hunter Biden appeared on, one network said the “F bomb” was uttered 70 times by Biden — and that was before the pod cast ended.  Today these same words, or worse, are uttered by our elected officials, by rioters, by people we are supposed to look up to for guidance.  But what we get is just language that is abhorrent to most middle-class, God-fearing people.

Just when you think the words can’t get any worse or more vile, they do.

Let’s hark back to 1939, when “Gone with the Wind,” hit the big screens across America.

The film, still voted as one of the 10 best movies ever made, was blasted because Rhett Butler, portrayed by Clark Gable, spoke what critics said was his best line in the entire picture when he said to Scarlet O’Hara, portrayed by Vivien Leigh, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

And a bit more, as Scarlet packs up her belongings and leaves for her beloved Tara with her faithful maid by her side, she says, her most memorable line, “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

But to get back to Rhett’s “damn,” it brought a cry of outrage. Never had there been “that kind of language” in a film. The cry was heard from coast to coast.

And in today’s world, that word is considered “nothing,” meaningless, in the terrible drivel that is spouted out every single day.

I am not so sure our forefathers meant freedom of speech like the speech that has become common language — from young people to middle age to retirees. 

Growing up, my mother said, she and her sisters and brothers were not even allowed to say “gosh” or ‘darn.”  Those days are gone forever, and we are all poorer because of it.

Those who spew out unbelievably gross, unforgivable, hate-filled four-letter words, defending it as “free speech,” get louder and louder and more vile day by day.

It’s not just the four-letter words — it’s that everyone is either racist, Hitler, traitor, and I could go on and on.

Rhett Butler’s words “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” which drew so much ire in 1939, would be considered almost polite speech in today’s world!