They want to take us back 50 years.

Back to when all the minorities were under control.

Back to when the white man ruled the world.

Back to when everyone was afraid to speak ill of the KKK.

They want everything to be like 1960's black and white television shows. Like Dick Van Dyke, the Honeymooners, or Andy Griffith. They want to live in some bizarre squeaky clean version of America where everyone knows their place and people don't question authority or sexual preferences. That's the kind of world the tea party wants to live in!

Except..... the reality is, some of that really did exist. Slavery and all that.....

In their minds they are so regressive and so oppressive they can't deal with the liberal concept of real equality which we are just now beginning to realize in some places.

Maybe Don Knotts still has the remote.

The Dick Van Dyke Show was more progressive on civil rights issues than most of these Tea Party yahoos are today. And the characters in The Honeymooners were among the working poor. The Kramdens didn't even have a phone. Rather, they want to go back to the world of Leave it to Beaver, The Donna Reed Show, and Father Knows Best. The heterosexual family unit where mom wore dresses and pearls and stayed home all day.

I mean, right? Of course "father knows best"! [sarcasm]

Ralph was a bus driver, and Norton worked in the sewer.

EVER! Not our fault.

"I don't want my anger quotient exacerbated. I don't want to keep punching myself in the face with it."

Applies to alot of us lately, I think.

WTF!geez Sick,sick with hate.

He has always seemed like an honest, decent, smart man with some inner wisdom. Plus he must like the same egghead things I do with his "Through The Wormhole" series. The truth is, of course, out there.

Like a twinkie...

Glad you're here! GREAT point you make! Made me laugh out loud! He wasn't talking to an empty chair, but he was talking about more than a few empty heads (and hearts).

I was a 2nd grade teacher (thank you GI Bill), and that show was a daily must see for my class. He never disappointed me then, nor has he disappointed me since.

Morgan Freeman was superb in the masterpiece, "The Shawshank Redemption"

hateful, reality denying, Jesusfreakistan! No thanks..............

...

white fuzzy testicles hanging on his chin.

I'm sorry. I apologize. I just can't get past those crazy whiskers...

Thanks for the thread, cali.

Progressives think the future is going to be great because the past sucked. Change vs stay the same (or change backwards). Its the nature of the 2 ideologies.

It may be about something specific like the job situation before women and immigrants, or the cold war. Or just a general feeling that we can do better. But people tend to focus on a few factors while ignoring the others. Some things are better and some things are worse. And this differs for various demographics.

Personally, my life is better now than it could have been at any other time in history, especially in this country.

I once heard someone from another country claim that many countries are better off because their uneducated riff raff emigrated to America. As in if you're not good enough to succeed, go to America where the bar is much lower or something.

the future is going to suck, so they have to take us to the past.

The political comments are a small part of it. They're pretty profound none the less.

because I don't know when I've ever disagreed with him. He's especially right about weed, and I'm glad to see polls showing 54% of Americans agreeing at long last.

When people snap at me they're gonna "take our country BACK, we're losing all our freedoms!" I tell them they don't own exclusive rights to it, and they haven't lost anything they had in the first place except the power to rule over others - which they never should've had in the first place.

The slogan "Take our country back!" ranks right down there with "Murika - love it or leave it!" Not only do they not care about anyone else's rights, they don't think anyone else has any rights.

That's what they're really saying

Freeman comes out with some good quotes from time to time. Smart man.

I think he is a fine actor who can pick very good roles.


What I think is interesting is the idea that conservatives keep saying they are trying to preserve or return us to a way of life which never actually existed. This public devotion to some fantastical historical ideal is a very old phenomenon of the conservative mind. On the surface, Medieval Europe treasured the tales of King Arthur and Camelot; the place where Chivalry was most pure. In practical terms, they wielded power to enrich themselves at the cost of anyone weaker then them. The antisepses of the code of Chivalry. And now as then, the ones who bear the brunt of the cost and the dying is the serfs controlled by the ones vying to preserve the fantasy.

"How about I come over there and hang my foot up your ass?"

(from An Unfinished Life)

I love Morgan Freeman!

And he's got a new movie coming out: "Last Vegas." Starring (get this!) Morgan Freeman, Robert DiNero, Kevin Kline and Michael Douglas.

Official trailer:

In Santa Monica several years ago at a movie theatre and he was in the lobby with a friend. I have no memory of the movie but being 3 feet away from Morgan Freeman is something I'll never forget!

Along with Sir Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones and the late Peter Cushing, Mr. Freeman has one of my favourite speaking voices!

When I read it, I thought God had gone all teabagger on us. Amazing what a difference the placement of end quote marks (which should really have been at the end of the line) can make.

As a huge fan of Prince in the '80s, I'm still smarting from his conversion to the Tea Party cause.

But the Bill Cosby "quote" was so off-the-wall that I immediately smelled BS.

Not to mention it actually got his age wrong.

One of my favorite actors!

from the voices in their heads.

as if the rest of the republican and democratic parties are not controlled by a small contingent of people with a lot of money (the 1%) and as if obama wasn't elected partly because of money from them, and as if many of his major decisions didn't help them.

meh. i'm looking for something considerably to the left of freeman's position.

We currently have a rabid segment of the House that would just love to whip up some radical Committee to "put them in their place".

Every prominent voice that comes out and calls it what it is, such as Alan Grayson and Dick Durbin, makes it easier for someone else to both recognize and tell the truth. Enough of this PC BS.

hell, hollywood raises an incredible amount of money for dems and liberals and famous actors speak out as openly and frankly as he does just about every fucking week. Last week it was the guy who played Mr. Big.

your claim is silly, faux victim whining.

ugh.

Edit for: My subject was racism, not funding.

Real Liberal Hollywood still lives in the shadows, thanks to McCarthy

so no, your subject wasn't just racism

and public committees against prominent Liberals putting or keeping them in line, one way or the other.

I was actually drawing a parallel between racism to communism and the intense power that still exists. I lived in LA for decades and progress is being made, but name for me more than 2-3 black, female stars on par with Freeman...not light-skinned or bi-racial or married to prominent white men...black women, other than Oprah. Ask her about it.

Same with LAPD and LA County Sheriff ... I could go on and on, but that wasn't my intent.

Sometimes when one tries to edit comments to fit on just a few lines, it's easy to be misunderstood. Thank you for the opportunity as others might have misunderstood, as well.

Peace.

You want your country back?
I want my country forward!

Simplistic, but it gets the point across...

They've done more damage to our country than Al Qaeda ever could!

It said "Pray for America". Not pray for humanity, or pray for an end to suffering, or pray for the end of the war, just America. I'm as patriotic as just about anyone, but I thought that was a wee bit selfish. And what is the deity going to do with that? "Hmm, I think you're right- Americans ARE more deserving than Canadians, or the Swedes, or (whatever)".

(sorry if I insulted anyone, but I truly just don't get it).

Did anyone else see the (admittedly stupid) movie "Midnight in Paris" where everyone is trying to live in a different era? Didn't work then, either. Of course, that may have been just because the movie starred Owen Wilson.

teapartysigns then click images. Link here
https://www.google.com/search?q=tea+party+signs&client=firefox-a&hs=ZIE&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=KNtpUqOPI8K2kAfFx4DgAQ&ved=0CD8QsAQ&biw=1344&bih=697

we sorta do need to take our country back... from the bankers!