[tanknetter]

Lear was disappointed at Archie being liked, but the show was effective as a propaganda vehicle nonetheless and is considered one of the left’s greatest vehicles for changing American culture.

Yeah, and considering that the show preceded the 1980's resurgence of Conservatism/decline of Liberalism is proof that it succeeded, right?

AITF was supposed to be like M*A*S*H - a scathing commentary on major social/political issues designed to drive public opinion in a certain direction using the comedic (and Alinskyite) form of ridicule. But like M*A*S*H really didn't make the public anti-war/pacifistic, AITF really didn't stampede the public into Liberalism.

[ansel12]

LOL, how blind are you?

In your world America moved right because of Norman Lear’s most effective sitcom, and MASH?

All in the Family was incredibly effective for the left, as was show after show after show, including MASH, they all helped change the national perceptions of normal, of acceptable, of what people thought their neighbors were thinking.

The culture kept moving left, it didn’t stop, despite what you think.

[ansel12]

You must understand, a propaganda vehicle like All in the Family, or a Roseanne Barr comedy, or whatever, is not meant to make you suddenly wake up a liberal, it is to have a slow, corrosive effect, an accumulative effect to move things just a fraction left, drip, drip, drip, All in the Family was a better dripper than most, and is recognized as such for it’s being perhaps the most influential cultural sitcom ever.