I think I have found the reason we are all in such deep trouble

Repubilcans are still living in the 50's


A Date With Your Family


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYVh9AhtLk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrmFGSM1h44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLkOEBmi6po

MKJ

on edit, on clicking I saw it is actually said short!

:kick:, no surprise from me. :-)

the saints :cry:

Grooming is only between you and your God, :spray:

(keep watching your medicine cabinet!)

MKJ

except through old B&W sitcoms, so they only want to live in part of the 50s.

What they fail to see is that during the 50s, a family could exist on one income, even a very modest, barely above minimum wage income. They fail to see that all the protections of the New Deal were in place, taxes on working people were at a very low level, and that all this provided the means to create a very large and stable middle class. They fail to see that the daddyrabbit on the sitcoms either had a union job or had a job that competed with unions in offering wages and benefits. They fail to see a lot of things.

What they do see is a world where everybody was clean and well fed and all looked alike and everybody knew their place, especially women and blacks, and nobody ever mentioned sex and certainly nobody ever committed real crimes, just mischief.

Trying to educate these sappy fools is useless. They "know" what the 50s were like because they saw it on "Leave it to Beaver." Hell, who wouldn't want to live in such an idealized world besides a bunch of DU malcontents?

On edit: we had to watch this shit in classes in the 50s. The comments are fairly typical of what those of us hanging out in the back of the room were muttering.

All of us young ladies were supposed to aspire to be Breck girls, blech.

That was definitely my first case of cognitive dissonance, growing up middle class and seeing what was supposedly happening in households, which was so far from my upbringing it was dizzying.

The inside/outside of the homes looked like ours, the conversations and interactions couldn't have been further from my experience.

Except the sitting down at dinner, part, where we attempted to connect, sometimes successfully, often not. But, I take comfort in the fact that if one or both of my parents saw this growing up, either one would have taken it with a huge grain of salt.



MKJ

and I often wish she'd seen this dismal garbage with the class, the comments would have been priceless.

I know films like this put me completely off dating in high school.

No wonder we all turned to drugs in the 60s.

Families could have that dinner date because work hours were more restricted than now for most middle class families, and they had pretty bland but filling food on the table because they could survive fairly easily on one income, if the wife budgeted well.

And where were the "ethnic people"? They sure weren't in the movies and on tv. I really think that's how many Republicans want their entire world.

oh thanks for these.

I love MST3K

:rofl: