Chuck Hagel is Rocking The House - dignified, passionate, feisty, knocking down all the tea party

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34. Welcome to DU, NoMoreRepugs!

Glad you're here! I personally LOVE your sig-line. Because sometimes I find myself dreaming about the day when that miserable, prehistoric, cockeyed, utterly unhinged, willfully ignorant, and recklessly irresponsible mindset has been wiped out. I wonder if any of 'em will EVER fully wake up. Even if, heaven forbid, they DO get their way and they DO get "their" America back(wards), I'd say we could safely bet that they won't like it then, either. I think, at its most basic, these idiots really don't know WHAT they want when you drill down into it farther than a couple of millimeters.

It struck me that what these morans THINK they want - the America of the 1950s - would horrify them today. Eisenhower? He was a MODERATE. He had America BUILDING things - and it wasn't the private sector making the interstate highway system a reality. Back when Jim Anderson and Ward Cleaver drove off to work every morning to earn the single paycheck that would easily support their families-of-four, so Margaret and June could stay home with their pearls and their house-dresses and their vacuum cleaners which they'd stop working with in time to make cookies for when the kids got home from school, UNIONS were strong. UNIONS. The bane of corporate America's existence these days! America had a strong UNION movement. And it was appreciated and celebrated. UNIONS were well-regarded and had the support of the people. UNIONS made that whole world possible. UNIONS compelled business and industry to play a little more fair with the working man (and woman). UNIONS were in place and helping to level the playing field and make it possible for ONE member of the household to earn enough singlehandedly to support a family comfortably. With benefits and health insurance and a pension. And collective bargaining so the working stiff could get a bit of a break and a reasonable pay increase every so often. And a few more workers' rights. THAT is what the 50s were.

If ol' newty gingrich who loudly flatters himself as an "historian" really WERE any sort of historian, when he spewed all that crap about sending the kids to clean the bathrooms at school and work as janitors, HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT. He would have known something about child labor laws and the reason such things were NEEDED.