There are many Mennonite families in these parts. They seem more or less permanently linked to kinder, gentler time...
...you shouldn’t confuse Mennonite folk with the Mennonite Central Committee, which is nothing but a front for uberradical leftwingers...
No such time has ever existed. There has been war, plague, famine, death and destruction, pretty much continually during the whole of human history.
Mennonites live in a fantasy world of their own creation, which wouldn’t even be possible were it not for the sacrifices of the soldiers of free and democratic nations who have fought and died for their right to live in peace.
There’s nothing kinder or gentler about manual labor for housewives. The burdens of “the plain people” are borne on the backs of the women who sacrifice beyond the imagination of the average american.