The other thing that gets lost in all that neo-con nostalgia for the '50s is that the tax code was much more progressive back then. Wealth was much more evenly distributed between the top and the bottom than it is today, but now anyone who bitches about social inequities is promoting “class warfare.”
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Agreed, but I think you’re talking mostly about white middle-class 50s culture?
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Oh absolutely. But even in the case of the Civil Rights movement that came about postwar, there was some shifts to conform, including some Cold War purging of leftists. They certainly downplayed some of the more radical elements, people like Ella “the most badass women in all of creation, like ever” Baker, and to some extent, Bayard Rustin, despite King lifting his non-violence radicalism wholesale - he was there, but he was certainly assigned a more background role, given his “problematic” background. Plus, we get the weird Rosa Parks story, where instead of having a very long history of activism, she’s presented as a tired woman on a bus (which she surely was - tired of living in a racist society).
But yeah, there are tons of shades of grey, but the 50s nostalgia doubly glosses over that even when it acknowledges civil rights, it’s put in a very strict dimension, that highlights it’s middle class, normal nature and the role of the federal government in “saving” African Ameriicans from individual racism. It totally ignores the structural racism that continues to exist… which I know you know! 
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I was in the waiting room of a VA outpatient clinic with a few of them about two weeks ago - close to the start of the shutdown. They were really upset about ObamaCare, apparently because the idea of people getting their medical care paid for by the taxpayers was upsetting to them. The air was simply thick with irony as well as ignorance.
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Seems to be a trend.
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“Keep your government hands off my Medicare!”
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I don’t know what’s funnier about Boehner’s Facebook page: the illiterate, rabid Koch Party posts, or Boehner’s claims that the Republicans voted to reopen government, pay the National Guard, fund important research, etc. If Boehner were to run over a homeless person, then get out and apply a bandage, he would probably claim that he “helps the needy.”
He doesn’t seem to mention the pork projects which were added to this bill, by members of his own thrifty party. Nancy “let’s just pass it and not sweat the details” Pelosi missed an opportunity, there.
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I think you’re right with the social dysfunction. The transformation came later - in the 60’s.
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First try, I get “Treasonous Traitor.”
What an outrageously redundant outrage!
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By that logic Nazi’s would be the natural ally of the Tea Party because they share a desire for strict control over immigration.
Your entire statement is absurd. There’s more to the iceberg than what’s on the surface.
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Divide et impera.
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What, like the Tea Party?
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The socialist case…
See, my point is that society was already in transformation during the entire postwar period. But given the treatment of some people, I might be persuaded back to “dysfunctional”. I just think that it implies a norm of some kind, and I don’t know if there is any norm that we can point to and say “this is how society is supposed to be”, which I think is different than a sense of morality, that “this is how society should be”.
Does that make any sense?
Because their “Republican” is Tea Party Republican (only).
True that. I’ve seen Tea Party placards misspelling the n-word.
Correctly spelling words is a treasonous, establishment, Marxist construct.
Also, the Constitution had misspellings: “Congrefs”, etc. So that must be what the Founding Heteronormative Fathers wanted.
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The stupid. It hurts.
Preſumably a long s and not an f, but I gueſs you’re perfectly aware of that. 
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