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To: SierraWasp

"restore the essence of goodness that pervaded this great nation from the time of "Happy Days," American Graffetti" and "Mayberry RFD!"
Now I want some smartalec to come on here and try to tell me what's wrong with that!!!"

I know what you are saying but it wouldn't work. The 1950's had too much liberalism left over from the New Deal. If you could return America to that time then you would just have a 1960's counterculture in a few years time.

The 1920's on the other hand was a time when the population rejected the liberalism of Wilson and much of the Progressive expansion of government was cut back such as the Income Tax rates. On the other hand the morals of the 1920's was looser than the 1950's.

Heck compared with today's popular culture I at times wish we could return to the 1980's when Olvia Newton John songs was banned for being too suggestive.

Of course I believe that everything started going downhill when the Great William McKinley was killed and that damn cowboy Teddy Roosevelt got in.


28 posted on 05/11/2005 8:18:36 PM PDT by Swiss
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To: Swiss; Dog Gone; Pelham
Thanks for your largely correct take on my comments. I didn't want to go too far back, lest some FR "Moderate" come on here and call me a Neanderthal! I'm getting so touchy/feely about that sort of thing, these days. (grin)

Dog Gone and Pelham, I sincerely thank you for your compliments, but as Dog Gone knows, it's unwise to give me any ranting encouragement, lest I go too far and step on too many toes, right D.G?

34 posted on 05/11/2005 9:06:09 PM PDT by SierraWasp (The "Heritage Oaks" in the Sierra-Nevada Conservancy are full of parasitic GovernMental mistletoe!!!)
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