Repugs: If we Can't Get BACK To The Fifties, Let's CLONE Them!

[Unperson 309]

Isn't that what they've been doing? The heyday of republicanism, of conservatism, was the World War II era through the Fifties. How was their wonderworld configured?

1. They had a BIG world enemy. First the Nazia. Well, we *all* fought them! When the War ended, they needed something to oppose, something to scare us with. Bingo! Communism! Communism was insidious, you could never tell who was communist and who wasn't! You had to give up a few freedoms to be safe from the Red Menace. We had to give money to Defense, to the intelligence services such as FBI and CIA. Anyone opposing these tenets was *gasp* unAmerican!

2. Sex was taboo! Women must be compliant and quiet. Marriage was sacrosanct. Homosexuality was forbidden. Extramarital sex and homosexual sex led to disease and marital damage.

3. Anyone questioning the dominant paradigm was either a Communist, a sexual deviant or an unpatriotic swine bent on destroying the very fabric of society. Such people had to be watched, suspected, reported on.

Well, now we have the same exact paradigms! When the Berlin Wall fell, I remember my Mom commenting "Well, the damned Republicans will have to find a NEW enemy or they're cooked! It's all they have to run on. Without Russia, what will they do for a foe to fight?"

Terrorism is now the shadowy world enemy, an equal to the Nazis and ther communists in secret dangers and hatred of our American Way Of Life (tm)

Sex is taboo again and there is a new spirit of repression against homosexuals and minorities! And yes, again the dominant paradigm is suspicion of the different, of those who refuse to toe the line. Increased funding to the military and intelligence.

Since the neocons cannot get in a time machine and return to the days of their "glory" then, by God they'll CREATE them again!

Comments?

[LoZoccolo]

1. They take away part of what made the fifties the fifties.

I would actually disagree with the "heyday of conservatism" notion, from a fiscal standpoint. Eisenhower left the New Deal in place, and even kept the 90% tax bracket - a sort of "if it ain't broke don't fix it" type of conservatism, but not the kind we have now, where Grover Norquist admits he wants to roll back the government's role in the economy and regulation to the McKinley era.

[mountainvue]

2. 1992 is just fine

with me. :)

[necso]

3. I think that it is the 1850's that they lust for.

Like in the pre-republican (party) days --- so that they can revert to being plain old "Know-Nothings"... after all, it is a part they play so well.