1776, the 1950s and the Republican Dream.........

[BlueStreak]

In recent years we have heard the ever increasing call from the right to return to our beginning, to the days of "The Founding Fathers".

Why do you suppose this is? What do you imagine they see in this period that is so appealing to them? (It couldn't be that only wealthy, white businessmen and property owners were allowed to vote, could it?)

Lately, there has also been a flurry of nostalgia about the 1950s, and what a wonderful period it was. Now, I wasn't around in the 1950s, I was born in 1964. But according to my parents it wasn't all it's cracked up to have been. As Pops would have said; "More good ol' days nonsense.".
So; Why the 1950s? (There's something about Poodle Skirts, Beehive hairdoos and Jim Crow Laws that appeal to some of us?)

Anyhow, I'm just curious about your thoughts on this subject.

Dave

[d-ray657]

Maybe they miss the tax rates from the 1950's.

Regards,

D-Ray

[noonereal]

The 1950's was romanticized in the far right by the advent of television and the "white homey" programs produced during that period. The hard realities of life were swept under the rug and every boy had a well mannered involved dad.
My God, folks did not even have sex in the 50's!
The wacko's went nuts as early as the 60's when these same white kids had free sex! They still haven't gotten over that one.

Yes, the romance was from TV. People really believed what they saw on TV was reality. (hence sarah and dinosaurs walk with men)

thankfully we now have reality TV where we can plainly see that fat girls can make mega bucks just with their name (Kardashians, Bristol) and that there is no substitute for being at the right place at the right time (Snookie. Sarah)

The right does not seem to like these facts about life
and wants to believe life is black and white, like they saw it in the 50's.

[BlueStreak]

Let's not forget the 1920s! That too appears to have been a mythical time when all was right in the world. No crime, no poverty, no perverts, everyone was a millionaire, everyone knew their place, no one payed taxes....."Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. Didn't need no welfare state, everybody pulled his weight. Gee, our old La Salle ran great. Those-were-the-DAAAAAAAYS!"

Well, according to Glenn Beck and Archie Bunker, anyhow........................

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Maybe they miss the tax rates from the 1950's.

Regards,

D-Ray

90% is entirely reasonable when a Republican does it, and plays it off as "necessary for the national defense", Don. Get with the program, son!

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by noonereal

The 1950's was romanticized in the far right by the advent of television and the "white homey" programs produced during that period. The hard realities of life were swept under the rug and every boy had a well mannered involved dad.
My God, folks did not even have sex in the 50's!
The wacko's went nuts as early as the 60's when these same white kids had free sex! They still haven't gotten over that one.

Yes, the romance was from TV. People really believed what they saw on TV was reality. (hence sarah and dinosaurs walk with men)

thankfully we now have reality TV where we can plainly see that fat girls can make mega bucks just with their name (Kardashians, Bristol) and that there is no substitute for being at the right place at the right time (Snookie. Sarah)

The right does not seem to like these facts about life
and wants to believe life is black and white, like they saw it in the 50's.

WHAT?! Are you suggesting that sex, especially deviant sex, WASN'T invented by those damn hippies? That people actually, (GULP!), FORNICATED prior to Kennedy administration?

You're crazy! I seriously suggest you go get yourself checked out, Mister!

Dave

[Charles]

Don't remember much about them, but I liked the 50's and early 60's better.

Chas

[BlueStreak]

On a more serious note.

Honestly, I had an older gentleman tell me once that he thought the period between WW2 and the mid-sixties was "wierd", and that the late sixties and early seventies were "even wierder, but in a different way", that it was as if the postwar era held a sort of "paranoid, obssessive conformity" (In his words.) that the baby boomers rebelled against.

Does this make any sense to you who lived during that period?
Where's Rob? I'd like to see his input.

Dave

(And, to our resident righties; I have just been razzing you with this thread. Having a little fun. So, lighten up.)

[merrylander]

WW II had ended and people were trying to get their lives back together. Since NorAm did not have its cities and factories bombed flat the Big 3 started producing civilian cars again. Being the one productive area of the world there was plenty of employment, unions were strong and wages were rising.

Returning soldiers were marrying and building houses - you can see areas here where all this building was going on, typical house was either a "CapeCod" or rancher about 1000 sq feet, Google Levittown. In MD take a drive along Norwood Ave, that was probably the fringes than.

Hey compared to the crap of the Depression things were quite rosy, whether families were like "Leave it to Beaver" or "Archie Bunker" depended a great deal on where you lived. I started at Bell in October 1950.

Of course our big mills were so busy turning ot steel, cars, etc. no one thought of taking a line out of production and modernizing it. Europe and Japan built new and so used the latest technology and eventually ate our lunch. Best of it was that they did it with our help - Marshall Plan.

The one thing you could do in the 50s, at least where I lived - leave your doors unlocked, keys in the car and never worry. Here the doors are locked even when we are in the house, when I am on the tractor cutting grass and the garage door is open, the inner door is locked and I carry a house key.

[BlueStreak]

Thanks, Rob.