The Fifties offered a culture that worked - but it was a very stifling, limiting culture, and required citizens with character forged in the Depression and WWII to pull it off. There is little point in being nostalgic for those days. They are never coming back. The biggest negative change since then is the condition of our inner cities, and blame for that rests squarely on the shoulders of Great Society liberalism.
Americans need to focus on developing our new and hard-won strengths rather than decrying the things we think we lack or have lost. Trying to translate Fifties nostaglia into a political platform is ultimately self-defeating.
“The Fifties offered a culture that worked - but it was a very stifling, limiting culture,”
Funny, but growing up in this time, I did not find it stifling, or limiting. Quite the contrary, we found we had unlimited opportunities for play and work, and a bright future. Quite a contrast to the attitudes prevalent in today’s culture.