Fifties were a better time. We need to return to a better Democratic Party.

[Warren DeMontague]

140. I can't think of jack shit that was "better" in the 1950s.

Even the vaunted manufacturing jobs (leaving aside, again, totally valid criticisms that the great plethora of jobs for straight white dudes was also predicated on the workforce being only open to, again, straight white dudes)... that were so prevalent back then were in part due to the fact that World War II had left Europe a rubble heap what needed desperately to buy our shit.

It was a unique historical era and it's not "coming back". So your fairly light on content post- which I did read- is kind of silly.

But it's typical of the sort of cranky duffer-tude we see around here all too often. "Surveillance of television content is censorship"- are you suggesting that the days of the Hayes Code and separate beds for married couples on sitcoms - not to mention the HUAC- was somehow an era of greater artistic expression?

My kids have to deal with THIS century, and that's where my focus lies. I'm not all that interested in figuring out how to bring back the buggy whip market.