The 1950s are coming back

[Ray From Cleveland]

'You better not be on the phone talking to a Catholic. You're going to run up the phone bill"

Those days?

In those days people didn't spend much time on the phone. In fact some homes never had a telephone in the house.

We talked about that at a family gathering one night. My niece and nephew were in disbelief of party lines. They thought it was the funniest thing they ever heard. They swore we were just making it all up.

In the 60's, most everybody had a small black and white television that only got about three or four channels, maybe two of them clear with no snow. At midnight, all the television stations signed off for the evening. They'd end playing the star spangled banner with a video of a flag blowing. Then the channel just went off the air and all you seen was snow.

In the summer time, the only thing on television were reruns. So we spent time with each other. No cable, no internet, no video games. Much of the time we spent outside. Kids would be playing with other kids, and the adults were outside either working or talking with neighbors.

If you weren't there, it was an entirely different world back then.

 

[bendog]

The South was better for whites … jus sayin!

 

[whitehall]

What "far right leaders"? Hitler and Mussolini came into power in the 30's. God help us if the President ever gets us into a war like Korea and the liberal mainstream media pretends that it is "forgotten". As usual the angry crazy left has history ass-backwards.

 

[bendog]

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

These 13 Photos of Mississippi In The 1950s Are Mesmerizing

 

[okfine]

Ah that mythical far off time when things were perfect and everyone who was not white and male knew to keep their place. The little boomers were princes of all creation and had a whole world of resources to plunder and we could all pollute to our hearts content. The Fonz could fix anything with a rap of his knuckles and Sheriff Taylor's worst crime problem was Earnest T. Bass.

Quit pining for a time that was only good on TV.

Why do you not allow others to have a Golden Age?

Golden ages are usually gold plated turds. When you look beneath the surface all you find is shit. If you lived in the deep south the 1950s sucked balls and nothing really got better until the seventies.

So, a nation a generation out of world wide depression and war, had massive economic growth and peace and prosperity, and it was shit because not every single place was equally benefited?



BULLSHIT.

World War II (1941–1945) Korean War (1950-1953) Vietnam War (1962–1973)

We are talking about the 50s, and you cite wwii and the vietnam war?

Yes, If you can read, we were at war 1/3 of those wonderful 50's. Get it?

 

[okfine]

'You better not be on the phone talking to a Catholic. You're going to run up the phone bill"

Those days?

In those days people didn't spend much time on the phone. In fact some homes never had a telephone in the house.

We talked about that at a family gathering one night. My niece and nephew were in disbelief of party lines. They thought it was the funniest thing they ever heard. They swore we were just making it all up.

In the 60's, most everybody had a small black and white television that only got about three or four channels, maybe two of them clear with no snow. At midnight, all the television stations signed off for the evening. They'd end playing the star spangled banner with a video of a flag blowing. Then the channel just went off the air and all you seen was snow.

In the summer time, the only thing on television were reruns. So we spent time with each other. No cable, no internet, no video games. Much of the time we spent outside. Kids would be playing with other kids, and the adults were outside either working or talking with neighbors.

If you weren't there, it was an entirely different world back then.

I was born in the 50's and I know what it was like in the 60's. It was one of those myths that circulated for years.
Thanks for the history lesson.

 

[Correll]

Why do you not allow others to have a Golden Age?

Golden ages are usually gold plated turds. When you look beneath the surface all you find is shit. If you lived in the deep south the 1950s sucked balls and nothing really got better until the seventies.

So, a nation a generation out of world wide depression and war, had massive economic growth and peace and prosperity, and it was shit because not every single place was equally benefited?



BULLSHIT.

World War II (1941–1945) Korean War (1950-1953) Vietnam War (1962–1973)

We are talking about the 50s, and you cite wwii and the vietnam war?

Yes, If you can read, we were at war 1/3 of those wonderful 50's. Get it?

So, peace for two thirds. The later two thirds. And people are looking backwards at it, so that would loom larger.


Mmmm. So, what was your point again?



My point stands.



So, a nation a generation out of world wide depression and war, had massive economic growth and peace and prosperity, and it was shit because not every single place was equally benefited?



BULLSHIT.

 

[Robert Urbanek]

Given that 38 million children have been forced out of school by the coronavirus, the new era of the stay-at-home mom may be coming sooner than I thought.

 

[lennypartiv]

Is that how you feel, that women will be making more babies and staying home? Hmmm.

The US population is going in the wrong direction because American women aren't doing what they are supposed to do.

 

[IM2]

'You better not be on the phone talking to a Catholic. You're going to run up the phone bill"

Those days?

In those days people didn't spend much time on the phone. In fact some homes never had a telephone in the house.

We talked about that at a family gathering one night. My niece and nephew were in disbelief of party lines. They thought it was the funniest thing they ever heard. They swore we were just making it all up.

In the 60's, most everybody had a small black and white television that only got about three or four channels, maybe two of them clear with no snow. At midnight, all the television stations signed off for the evening. They'd end playing the star spangled banner with a video of a flag blowing. Then the channel just went off the air and all you seen was snow.

In the summer time, the only thing on television were reruns. So we spent time with each other. No cable, no internet, no video games. Much of the time we spent outside. Kids would be playing with other kids, and the adults were outside either working or talking with neighbors.

If you weren't there, it was an entirely different world back then.

It was a racist apartheid nation back then. We don't need to go back there.

 

[skye]

God, I love the 1950s...are they really coming back? or is all just an illusion?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

'You better not be on the phone talking to a Catholic. You're going to run up the phone bill"

Those days?

In those days people didn't spend much time on the phone. In fact some homes never had a telephone in the house.

We talked about that at a family gathering one night. My niece and nephew were in disbelief of party lines. They thought it was the funniest thing they ever heard. They swore we were just making it all up.

In the 60's, most everybody had a small black and white television that only got about three or four channels, maybe two of them clear with no snow. At midnight, all the television stations signed off for the evening. They'd end playing the star spangled banner with a video of a flag blowing. Then the channel just went off the air and all you seen was snow.

In the summer time, the only thing on television were reruns. So we spent time with each other. No cable, no internet, no video games. Much of the time we spent outside. Kids would be playing with other kids, and the adults were outside either working or talking with neighbors.

If you weren't there, it was an entirely different world back then.

It was a racist apartheid nation back then. We don't need to go back there.

Why not? There were ten times more good things than bad back then.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Is that how you feel, that women will be making more babies and staying home? Hmmm.

The US population is going in the wrong direction because American women aren't doing what they are supposed to do.

I am sure that women everywhere are on tenterhooks, waiting for you to tell them what they are supposed to do.

 

[skye]

somebody said 1950s?

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[HappyJoy]

Many liberals see the rise of Trump and far-right leaders in Europe, the Philippines and other parts of the world as a repeat of the fascist rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Francisco Franco. But if history is truly repeating itself, the defeat of fascism in this century will be followed not by a progressive paradise but by a post-World War II-type era of social conservatism and bourgeoise ideals: the “1950s,” a period often mocked and derided by the left.

Wouldn't that mean that the MAGA crowd would be standing trial at Nuremberg?

EDIT: Typo

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Many liberals see the rise of Trump and far-right leaders in Europe, the Philippines and other parts of the world as a repeat of the fascist rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Francisco Franco. But if history is truly repeating itself, the defeat of fascism in this century will be followed not by a progressive paradise but by a post-World War II-type era of social conservatism and bourgeoise ideals: the “1950s,” a period often mocked and derided by the left.

(The social description “the 1950s” encompasses the post-war period of 1946 to 1963, before the social revolution ushered in by the Beatles and the Vietnam War protests.)

When the neo-1950s come back, still several years away, look for woman to focus more on family and children and less on careers. The alphabet soup can of LGBTQ will be pushed to the rear of the pantry. The self-segregation by ideology occurring now may be extended to self-segregation by lifestyle and race.

The cosmopolitan elites will persevere, but they will lose much of their influence in the media.

While the culture will move right, a liberal amount of government intervention will be required to focus on the family. For example, generous Social Security credits might be given to stay-at-home moms who have gainfully employed husbands.

 

[IM2]

'You better not be on the phone talking to a Catholic. You're going to run up the phone bill"

Those days?

In those days people didn't spend much time on the phone. In fact some homes never had a telephone in the house.

We talked about that at a family gathering one night. My niece and nephew were in disbelief of party lines. They thought it was the funniest thing they ever heard. They swore we were just making it all up.

In the 60's, most everybody had a small black and white television that only got about three or four channels, maybe two of them clear with no snow. At midnight, all the television stations signed off for the evening. They'd end playing the star spangled banner with a video of a flag blowing. Then the channel just went off the air and all you seen was snow.

In the summer time, the only thing on television were reruns. So we spent time with each other. No cable, no internet, no video games. Much of the time we spent outside. Kids would be playing with other kids, and the adults were outside either working or talking with neighbors.

If you weren't there, it was an entirely different world back then.

It was a racist apartheid nation back then. We don't need to go back there.

Why not? There were ten times more good things than bad back then.

No there wasn't. We don't need to go back to apartheid.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

'You better not be on the phone talking to a Catholic. You're going to run up the phone bill"

Those days?

In those days people didn't spend much time on the phone. In fact some homes never had a telephone in the house.

We talked about that at a family gathering one night. My niece and nephew were in disbelief of party lines. They thought it was the funniest thing they ever heard. They swore we were just making it all up.

In the 60's, most everybody had a small black and white television that only got about three or four channels, maybe two of them clear with no snow. At midnight, all the television stations signed off for the evening. They'd end playing the star spangled banner with a video of a flag blowing. Then the channel just went off the air and all you seen was snow.

In the summer time, the only thing on television were reruns. So we spent time with each other. No cable, no internet, no video games. Much of the time we spent outside. Kids would be playing with other kids, and the adults were outside either working or talking with neighbors.

If you weren't there, it was an entirely different world back then.

It was a racist apartheid nation back then. We don't need to go back there.

Why not? There were ten times more good things than bad back then.

No there wasn't. We don't need to go back to apartheid.

We don't? Then tell me, what was so bad about it? Don't you think that if people are happier living with their own kind, it's a good thing?

 

[IM2]

somebody said 1950s?

 

[jillian]

Many liberals see the rise of Trump and far-right leaders in Europe, the Philippines and other parts of the world as a repeat of the fascist rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Francisco Franco. But if history is truly repeating itself, the defeat of fascism in this century will be followed not by a progressive paradise but by a post-World War II-type era of social conservatism and bourgeoise ideals: the “1950s,” a period often mocked and derided by the left.

(The social description “the 1950s” encompasses the post-war period of 1946 to 1963, before the social revolution ushered in by the Beatles and the Vietnam War protests.)

When the neo-1950s come back, still several years away, look for woman to focus more on family and children and less on careers. The alphabet soup can of LGBTQ will be pushed to the rear of the pantry. The self-segregation by ideology occurring now may be extended to self-segregation by lifestyle and race.

The cosmopolitan elites will persevere, but they will lose much of their influence in the media.

While the culture will move right, a liberal amount of government intervention will be required to focus on the family. For example, generous Social Security credits might be given to stay-at-home moms who have gainfully employed husbands.

Is that how you feel, that women will be making more babies and staying home? Hmmm.

I think that’s what we refer to as afactual. He’s kind of a moron and I think that’s his wishful thinking