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Posted with extraordinary gratitude to Melissa with thanks.
READ IT HERE because I'm simply providing this slice for effect:
The Republican Party has traded again and again on the conjured idea of an American golden era, circa 1945 to 1960, after boys who were ripped from the arms of their virginal sweethearts and sent to another continent to fight a great war against tyranny and despair, had returned home as men, as heroes, and set to work, every last one of them, making babies with doting wives and grabbing the American Dream with both hands in the dawn of suburbia. Scientists in white lab coats and square, black-framed glasses toiled away to make American astronauts the first on the moon, and to fill all the pretty new homes behind perfect white picket fences with fancy, new-fangled household gadgets to make life easier and more fun. Teenagers hung out at sock hops and neon-lit diners, girls longing for lavaliers and boys wondering how to get laid. Elvis' pelvis was considered a scandal, and Marilyn Monroe a bombshell. Dad had a pension and the promise of a gold watch at the end of a long career with a single firm, and Mom had a Frigidaire. And everyone was happy.
Vote for us—and we'll give you that.
It's an empty promise built on an illusion, carefully constructed to conceal that America's so-called golden age was imperfect like any other, and perhaps even more so than most. (MORE)
The truth of that era is expanded on in her post, but I feel the need to the children of the people that went off to fight the great war against tyranny and despair came home to raise a generation of people that includes a great many wonderful people.
A lot of whom feel gratitude for the nation they were given a realize that there has to be growth to be built as well as maintenance to be done for the nation to continue to be great.
...and then there are the teahadists...
