Remember that he wasn't truly "evil", he always redeemed himself by slowly accepting each and every liberal view to some degree.
"""All in the Family" explored racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, menopause, impotence, the Vietnam War and the loss of faith.""
""Though he was a bigot, Lear said, Archie wasn't a bad man. Archie's opinions softened and audiences got to see the man behind the bluster as the series progressed. Archie, Lear said, "was just afraid." That fear was reflected in the title song, "Those Were the Days," sung by O'Connor and Stapleton, and written by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams of "Bye Bye Birdie" fame.
"Archie was afraid of tomorrow," Lear said. "That was his big problem.""
archie was damn right to be afraid of the marxist dialectic or what we call incrementalism.
Let us clearly remember that the so called, no good, conservative bigot was the only one working in that household. He supported the other three.