A different age, I fear. (Pre-Maddlyn Murry O'Hair?)
Not exactly. Madalyn O'Hair was pre-Charlie Brown Christmas, by almost a decade. But it *was* a different age, back then. The moral rot we see all around us today, was at that time, just really beginning, and those who pushed it were a tad more circumspect about it than they are today.
This was the time when "All in The Family" was ruling the roost, but it didn't have quite the effect Norman Lear was looking for. His hope was that the American public would recoil in horror and disgust at Archie Bunker, to follow his *benevolent* guidance to the socialist utopia. Instead, people actually started to identify with Archie.
While the "social engineers" of Hollywood have been fighting for decades to "shape their utopia" over the public airwaves, they've never enjoyed the complete victory they sought, and still seek today. May that "victory" always elude them, and may they one day admit defeat...
the infowarrior