[piytar]

Conservatives by and large don’t look at such Hollywood fantasies to justify their worldviews. Liberals do. That’s the real fundamental divide.

PS It is a decent show.

[napscoordinator]

I like it. I am watching first season on DVD. The only problem I am having is keeping up with the characters and who they belong to and such. It seems like it is a huge cast and everyone looks the same :). I will get there....I guess they are on Season three getting ready for Season four...hopefully by then I will have the characters down pat. I love the first episode when the women tells the other women that the new Selectric typewriter is advanced technology so just take your time learning (or something to that affect)....I was rolling because I learned typing on one of those fossils.

[spintreebob]

"look at such Hollywood fantasies to justify their worldviews"
“The show explains why the ’60s had to happen.”

Haven't seen the show, don't watch much TV. But did see the 60s.

The major fantasy was not Hollywood. It was the news media and academia. Pre-Reagan Keynes was the only responsible answer to Marx as my Wheaton College economics professor told me when he gave me an 'F' for mentioning Friedman 6 months before Milt got the Nobel prize. No Democrat, no prominent Republica, not Nixon, Ford, not minority leader Dirksen allowed for the metion of any discredited capitalist.

Pre-Reagan, everybody agreed detente and compromise with the Soviets was the only way to avoid nuclear holocaust.

It was a schizophrenic society. Starting with the Tet Offensive Jan 1, 68 the media informed us the Vietnam war was unpopular in the USA. Yet the Democrat base overwhelmingly nominated pro-war Humphrey over anti-war McCarthy. And then in November the voters elected pro-war and notoriously anti-communist Nixon over pro-war Humphrey ... and with Wallace picking up significant 3d party support even more anti-communist and pro-war than Nixon.

Four years later pro-war Nixon trounced anti-war McGovern,. On the day Saigon fell, the public opinion polls showed the public still supported the war and was more pro-war than Nixon. Yet the news media and academia insisted in an alternate reality until Watergate so weakened Nixon that he thought the way to survive was to compromise with the media that was crusading against the war.

[Bigg Red]

Conservatives by and large don’t look at such Hollywood fantasies to justify their worldviews. Liberals do. That’s the real fundamental divide.

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Excellent point.

Watched the show once. Not impressed. Full disclosure: I usually just don’t watch TV “drama” or sit-coms.

[OldDeckHand]

"Conservatives by and large don’t look at such Hollywood fantasies to justify their worldviews."

Thanks for that pithy insight. By the by, who in your view is "looking at such Hollywood fantasies to justify their worldviews"?

I've highlighted three plainly conservative people who at some length and effort, were motivated to opine on a cultural phenomena. If the discourse is either above you, or beneath you, I apologize.

"PS It is a decent show."

Let me guess, you yearn for the days of the Rockford Files and Marcus Welby?

[Frantzie]

More lib propaganda on evil white men and how white women are sluts. More evil and racists WASPs too. Trash with an agenda.

Idiots who watch TV empower Obama. Keep up the good work serfs.