Why would God Bless the "Old America?"

Our friend Grace Armstrong Lewis posted this on her Facebook page:

It started me wondering:  Why would "God" bless the "Old America" rather than the current America?  How "old"  is the "old America" that the sign is referring to?  If alive today, it must be since the 1920s during prohibition, when crime was rampant, minorities and women were treated terribly, Klu Klux Klan were freely doing lynching and many children died in childbirth or disease.  Could it be the 1930s, during the depression -- there weren't many good times then!.  How about the 1940s?  World War II, Hitler & Japan's atrocities, food and gas rationing, Japanese-Americans sent to remote camps?  Could it have been the 1950s with McCarthyism, Polio,  Korean war and the start of the Cold War with fear of global world nuclear war?  It is hard to believe we miss the 1960s when we lost 50,000 lives fighting a stupid Vietnam war, and still had the threat of global nuclear war. The US war on Vietnam killed hundreds of thousands in Vietnam and the region, and what did we gain? -- would God "bless" that?    It is possible that someone might "miss" the 1980s, but I'm not sure why.  Crime was much higher than today.  The Government created inflation that reduced the value of the dollar by about half to pay for the previous wars which decimated the savings of many..particularly retirees on fixed incomes.  President Reagan intentionally fought against rights for gays, women and blacks and refused to step up to stopping HIV/AIDs which contributed to the death of tens of thousands.
I think the world and American citizen's lives are much better today than any time in history.  I think the "moral standard" of America and the United States Government is better now than it ever has been. Crime is down, traffic fatalities down, food is safer, water and air is cleaner, education is better and fairer. We have a good national "safety net" which protects poor, elderly and disabled better than ever before.  In international relations, we seem to have relatively good relations with China, Vietnam, and now even Cuba.  We are having a rough time with Russia --but our efforts show we are trying to bring peace. Yes we are fighting some "wars" but they are all relatively low level, and the number of soldiers being killed and wounded seems to be lower than most times in history. Why would we ever want to go back to the "old days?"