Ask a Conservative, if they could go back to the "good ol' days"

[Toots]

When would that be? Then ask them who controlled Congress during that time.. Remember America slept well for over forty years while Democrats controlled congress. Democrats kept America Safe and Secure. It has only been under Republican leadership that America trembles in fear....

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1. I think 1910 was their "ideal" year.

[Toots]

5. I thought it was the fifties when Ozzie & Harriet slept in seperate beds.

Ike was their man yet Democrats ruled the roost. Ike was a very reasonable man who wanted only good for America. He may be the last Republican President where America came before the Party...

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9. Yes, except that the middle class was relatively strong in the 1950s and

1060s, something Republicans hate - they want a few rich people and all the rest poor, and they have been working on that goal since the 1970s.

[Wickerman]

2. Eisenhower era

Back when Ike was in charge - and oh yeah - Ike was left of Clinton.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Post WWII PRE J.F.K

[bronxiteforever]

4. 1898-Spanish American War and the gilded age

Robber Barons and the end of the "indians"-

[madinmaryland]

6. 1920's, the Calvin Coolidge era..

No silly restraints on what big business could do.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. The 80's.

The 1680's.

[zbdent]

8. I think that, for them to be happy, we'd have to go to complete darkness

and "nothingness" ...

You know, that book, can't remember the name, but it started something like "Let there be light ..."

[Bake]

10. OMG! Fifties' music sucked sooooooooooo bad!

I'd rather go back to freakin' DISCO than 50s music!!

Bake

[Sammy Pepys]

11. This was interesting enough that I actually asked...

..the guy who works down the hall from me. Smart guy, very nice, very well-read. His answer, paraphrased, amounts to this:

It's hard to pick one particular era because every era has it pluses and minuses, and knowing what we know now makes it hard to be objective about it. Control of Congress or who the President was would not be a factor, he'd rather choose an era based on what events and progression of history he thinks it'd be most interest to witness. If goaded into picking an era, he said he'd pick the end of Coolidge's presidency and hopefully live long enough to make it through the end of the '80s.

[sofa king]

12. "The Good Old Days" are always four decades back.

Just as tomorrow is always a day away and nobody self-identifies as a redneck but everybody knows one, the "the good old days" for conservatives are always just out of reach, back beyond the lynchings, and the slavery, and the Inquisition, and the Crusades, and the ritual killings, and the trees, and the first steps on land, and cell division.

[Jamastiene]

13. Most of them wouldn't be able to tell you when that was,

because they only repeat the talking points they heard their daddies repeat who only repeated the talking points they heard their daddies repeat who...

They dream of a time when women "knew their place" and when black people "knew their place" etc. They dream of being sorry and lazy while the rest of us did the damn work for them. Hey, wait a minute. That's now, isn't it? I mean the majority are still way poorer than the conservatives are and we still work our asses off for every penny we earn while they go from generation to generation rich as hell and not worrying about anything.

Maybe if we found a way to put their asses on a real job they'd have less time to sit around and dream up glory days for themselves and less time to slowly but surely take all our rights away.