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Thats true, but stupid. Everyone knows those democrats would be republicans now.
Republicans are the ones that want to rewrite history - by claiming that repulican in 1860 meeant the same thing it does today. Hell, republican in 1950 or 1960 has very little to do with republicans today. Just ask George Will or Charlie Sykes they'll be more than happy to explain it to you.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/29/former_republicans_george_will_and_charlies_sykes_what_happened_to_the_gop.html
So do you reckon yourself a Republican now?
Who tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act?
How did the GOP vote on the Civil Rights act? How did the Dems vote? That's what I thought.
While the landmark act received a majority of support from both parties, a greater percentage of Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Republicans were generally more unified than Democrats in support of civil rights legislation, as many Southern Democrats voted in opposition.
Any billionaire could end up as a pauper if he just marries a few times.
2- The sense that the US was way ahead of everyone else
3- The more readily available resources, starting with space, cheap houses.
2 and 3 are gone. Won't come back, and this doesn't depend on the government. You can't wish out Europe/Japan/Korea/China. And the resources have to be shared with a much larger world population.
Nobody denies that there were racist democrats in the south in 1964. But some very dishonest republicans try to turn those facts in to something that's simply false.
The stagnation of American living standards is entirely the result of the growth of government and its hangers-on. Just look at the typical middle-class household budget, the biggest items nowadays are housing, kids' education and medical insurance . . . none of them have anything to do with Europe/Japan/Korea/China, but all of them are monsters created by government regulations.
the thread is about how the Left and their control of pop culture lies about 1950s, not how we idolize the 1950s.
We both know the answer, but you (and others) keep falsely parroting the "big switch" lie. It's pathetic.
The illegitimate birthrate skyrocketed -
NoCoupForYou saysThe illegitimate birthrate skyrocketed -
Yeah, but no one can undo the pill. You can't put back the djinn in the bottle.
Did those racist democrats STAY democrats or become Republicans?
Heraclitusstudent saysNoCoupForYou saysThe illegitimate birthrate skyrocketed -
Yeah, but no one can undo the pill. You can't put back the djinn in the bottle.
The "pill" did not cause the illegitimate birthrate to skyrocket. The "pill" allowed promiscuity because the threat of pregnancy was severely lessened. The skyrocketing illegitimate birthrate was caused by welfare, paying women to stay at home merely for having a fatherless baby. True here and in England.
Goran_K saysDid those racist democrats STAY democrats or become Republicans?
No it's not simple.
In other words, virtually no racist Dem changed parties.
HeadSet saysIn other words, virtually no racist Dem changed parties.
Some did some didnt. Those that didnt are mostly dead. But today the "David Dukes" support Republicans.
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Everybody I ever met who remembered the 50s thought it was one of the greatest decades of their lives. There wasn't so much regulation of people's behavior, crime was low, #1 problem with schools was gum chewing and passing notes rather than drugs and teen pregnancy and Transsexualism, economy was good.
Yet when the Media presents it, it was a dark time of Paranoid Patriarchy where women were chained to their frost free refridgerators in their Mimi Eisenhower Pink Kitchens.
Any thoughts on this?