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How Alex P. Keaton Predicted The New Conservative Movement
The Federalist ^ | January 28, 2020 | David Marcus

Posted on 02/03/2020 11:41:58 AM PST by joma89

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I have always said I am the Alex P. Keaton of my family.

JoMa

1 posted on 02/03/2020 11:41:58 AM PST by joma89
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Likewise!


2 posted on 02/03/2020 11:45:11 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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And Jethro Bodine saw that impeachment coming...


3 posted on 02/03/2020 11:45:56 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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I have never been able to find it, but there was a New Yorker cartoon decades ago of two hippie parents and a son dressed in a three-piece suit, with the caption being something like, “Oh no, he’s become a Presbyterian!” It seemed prescient at the time.


4 posted on 02/03/2020 11:46:59 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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... and his mother on the show, the formerly hot Meredith Baxter, is now a raging lesbian.


5 posted on 02/03/2020 11:50:01 AM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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Bump for later.

I tremble with anticipation to read the full article. I hope the author’s thesis doesn’t turn out to be shaky.


6 posted on 02/03/2020 11:51:01 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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I think he did a good job. I suspect a fair number of Alex P. Keatons out there put President Trump into office.

JoMa


7 posted on 02/03/2020 11:53:44 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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I have never been able to find it, but there was a New Yorker cartoon decades ago of two hippie parents and a son dressed in a three-piece suit, with the caption being something like, “Oh no, he’s become a Presbyterian!” It seemed prescient at the time.

There was another one, also in the New Yorker, that showed a broken-hearted clown mom and clown dad, backstage in a circus tent, with their young son facing them in a three-piece suit and carrying a briefcase, saying "mom, dad, I'm running away to Wall Street to become an investment banker."

8 posted on 02/03/2020 11:53:47 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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I liked that show. I believed the Keaton’s “lived” in Columbus OH which is 25 miles from me.

IIRC correctly, there was an episode where Alex was asking if there was a cigarette lighter in the house. His parents wanted to know what the heck he needed that for:

“Well, Dad, I need to be prepared. There’s no doubt there’ll be an encore at the Milton Freidman concert I’m going to.”

(Yes...before the days of cell phones, cigarette lighters were used to signal for an encore at concerts.)

Who knew Alex’s dad would become the ultimate survivalist as one Burt Gummer?


9 posted on 02/03/2020 12:03:09 PM PST by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Roberts)
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“The pugnacious nature of the former latchkey kids, the last generation to play outside without a cell phone, lies at the heart of Trumpism. “


the last generation to play outside without a cell phone

The world is different in ways that astonish.


10 posted on 02/03/2020 12:11:23 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Is it just me, or did she not say it very convincingly the first time around?


11 posted on 02/03/2020 12:29:59 PM PST by scrabblehack
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“ the first openly Republican or conservative fictional character they can remember is Alex P. Keaton”


12 posted on 02/03/2020 12:45:32 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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I’m not sure Archie Bunker would have been a Republican.

Once upon a time, there were a lot of blue-collar Archies who were staunch union guys and voted Democrat.

Maybe once he opened a bar, but old habits die hard.


13 posted on 02/03/2020 12:55:53 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: KevinB

Yes, she was once quite the dish.


14 posted on 02/03/2020 12:56:42 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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Back in the 80s, I had a younger cousin who acted a lot like Alex.

Became a hard core socialist in his later 20s.


15 posted on 02/03/2020 12:57:15 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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Yup. He went from liberal working at PBS to a gun toting survivalist.


16 posted on 02/03/2020 1:06:49 PM PST by shelterguy
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Now that’s funny. I always found it funny when he would wear a 3-piece suit to high school.


17 posted on 02/03/2020 1:12:06 PM PST by wrcase
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Alex was probably a conservative libertarian or neocon.

Now we have Nick Fuentes to lead us all the way to true conservatism.

18 posted on 02/03/2020 1:21:48 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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As a GenXer myself, I can indeed say that the show quite correctly predicted that Gen-X would skew more conservative, and generally see through a lot of our Boomer parents’ belief systems as the giant crock of shit that they are.

We were also right there on the ground to see (as the latchkey kids so many of us were), them gradually trade all their “peace and love” for a loathsome FYIGM attitude.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my mother, simply because she’s my mother, but it still doesn’t change the fact that once I got old enough, I realised that at least half of what comes out of her mouth is a total crock, and I have to make decisions on the fly, whilst dealing with her about just how much of what she says I’m actually going to listen to and take seriously. :P


19 posted on 02/03/2020 1:28:52 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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I think Hollyweird intended Alex P. Keaton to be the “bad guy”, the heartless sibling that viewers were supposed to shake their finder at. Its like the Ron Swanson character in “Parks & Recreation”. He was supposed to be the “weird guy” where the viewer was supposed to go “ewww”. Instead he ended up the heart of the show & quite the one sensible pragmatic character. Yes I know Swanson was a libertarian but his “freedom & individuality” message backfired on them.


20 posted on 02/03/2020 1:29:12 PM PST by Reily
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