Yeah, but include, civil rights, a woman’s right choose, DEI, LGBTQ, Dreamers…ya know what? Let’s fight for what we had before the idiot took office and make it better. 🖕🏼Trump
Interesting, this. My father grew up in the 50s. We weren't allowed to watch Happy Days or any other TV show/movie/music that celebrated that decade. He said then what he says now, that it was an ugly time for anyone not white and male. And he is white and male.
White people across the political spectrum are largely untrustworthy … AND leftists decry "identity politics" and explicitly try to make everything about class.
I spent 42 years of my life in the closet and wasted my 20s & 30s on comphet marriages, and that’s without the threat of being jailed for being queer. I’m definitely not going back.
Also, if I’m not okay with the current state of systemic racism in this country why would I be willing to regress even further? Because as much as this idyllic 50s life would affect me it would be 1000 times worse for Black people and other racial minorities.
Yeah, I’m sorry, they already took away the rights that I gained in the 1970s, so why would I wanna go back before then? Sure let’s go back to Brown v. Board of Education days.
Their nostalgia is a danger and a threat to my present.
There's NO timeline where I wanna return to a world where my ADHD meds don't exist, where getting pregnant means death for me, and my hatred towards the cherch will get me beaten.
And I'm definitely not nostalgic for a time when I was actively hunted, forbidden from holding hands or kissing or dating in public, demonized relentlessly, and had to live a double life or one hidden away. Fuck that.
Quite true. UAW started integrating in the 1940s, but other unions not until the 60s, 70s. Knights of Labor represented Black workers but in SEGREGATED businesses, jobs. That's not nothing, but it does represent the reality of work and race.
Clearly resisting 😆😆😆
If Tom really wants to help this country, Tom will show up like a mensch, admit his error, make amends, do better in front of his thousands of followers.
Come on, Tom, be an exception to the majority of white men !
The 50’s were good for whom?Not anyone that looks like me or mine.
We will not go back to”Whites Only”,”Separate&Unequal”,“Subjugation of Women”, “PreCivil Rights&PreVoting Rights”, Maiming and Lynching.
The attacks on education are to allow folks like you to whitewash history . I don’t think so!
In America, we (specifically white people) can only have those things IF we deny others the same privilege of such benefits. If that is ok with you, then you are no different than maga.
This sounds great in white privilege theory, but it's only a good thing IF it applies to all who live here.
Think about how things were for people who weren't straight white men though. Like, I get that it's the sort of thing that didn't come up much in "Happy Days". But now that it's brought up, do you want the 50s again?
BTW, unions started to lose popularity when they started courting Black people.
Like I say, it didn't come up MUCH. There was the episode with Howard's old war buddy, and then there was the segregated diner. If there were more episodes, I don't remember them.
Women couldn't have a credit card or rent an apartment by themselves. Our suicide rate was 20% higher, probably because we couldn't divorce abusive spouses.
You mean when the Korean "police action" was drafting 18-yr olds? Or when women couldn't have bank accounts? Or, wait, let me guess, you like the part where Black people couldn't vote and schools were deeply, violently segregated? Or when gay people were institutionalized or arrested for exisiting?
Or when redlining meant Black, Latinx, and Asian people couldn't actually buy houses in many communities even if they could pay cash? Is it the McCarthy Communist witch hunt that gets you hot? I bet it is.
If you raise the top MARGINAL tax rate, the result will be a massive reduction in reported taxable income and a massive reduction in the EFFECTIVE tax rate paid by the uber wealthy.
There are much more effective (and efficient) ways to improve the fairness of the U.S. Tax Code.
Dear Fellow White Man,
Shut the fuc* up and start trying to see beyond yourself. Also, Unions will be destroyed by those same people who want to go back to the 1950s. Unless they become segregated but maybe you don't care
No one ever actually paid 92 percent. They found ways to shelter their taxable income.
We can increase the EFFECTIVE tax rate without raising the MARGINAL tax rate on the wealthy. And we can LOWER the marginal tax rate on the working and middle classes.
"Eisenhower explained it this way: The super rich could avoid the high taxes by investing [...] in things that make America stronger. [...] they could invest in business expansions and higher employee wages. They could give [...] to [...] non-profits that feed, house and clothe poor people..."
Adam Smith, the greatly misunderstood father of capitalism says the wealthy should pay a higher tax rate and workers should have good wages and benefits or it goes to shit and the nation fails…. He was right.
Yup. Ironically what is moral is good for the nation and the economy. What is currently being done will destroy both country and nation. One problem though with what Adam Smith noticed also is that this growth thing needs population growth. That’s unsustainable. Thanks for that article!
Not so sure - true capitalism maximizes efficiency and innovation, and individuals having freedom of choice to make the best decisions for their own quality of life. I think these work to allow the most "good" pop. growth while hedging against too much.
Wait a minute----you think the 50's were great? For whom exactly. Not if you were Black or queer or female. Those were NOT "good ole days" for most of us.
The 50s were only good for white men, Tom. It was a time y'all could rape, beat your wives and kids, lynch Black people and keep Black people and Jews out of everything, murder gay people, and the cops helped you with all of it. So when white men say lets go back, we know what you really want.
We had segregation, women couldn’t have a bank account without her husband or father signed for. Was it 1965 black people were allowed to vote. Mixed marriages became legal in 1967? Oh the good old days…
People must loom at the fkkking horrific dark ugly parts of our past and the fkkking ugly parts we must correct and learn from them. No more history revisionism and longing for those days that only existed in the minds of the well off white guys.
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White moderates and liberals still have shared history, community, & culture with MAGA and other conservatives. White supremacy links us.
Will you admit this or will you insist you are set apart?
This is a "both things are true" situation.
All white people are racist
What woman or Black man in the 1950s could easily join a union and support a family on a HS education?
No thanks. I'm not nostalgic for a time when I couldn't even get a bank account.
Their nostalgia is a danger and a threat to my present.
Thanks, but no thanks. 🤷♀️
...if you were white.
...if you were straight.
...if a man was the breadwinner of the household.
If we go back, this time we're taking everyone with us.
If Tom really wants to help this country, Tom will show up like a mensch, admit his error, make amends, do better in front of his thousands of followers.
Come on, Tom, be an exception to the majority of white men !
We will not go back to”Whites Only”,”Separate&Unequal”,“Subjugation of Women”, “PreCivil Rights&PreVoting Rights”, Maiming and Lynching.
The attacks on education are to allow folks like you to whitewash history . I don’t think so!
Everyone was some level of screwed.
But yeah. Good times. Let’s all rush back to that. Learn from our past indeed. 🙄🙄🙄
It’s ahistorical, myopic, selfish and above all, telling!
Must be nice to be so privileged, Tom.
This sounds great in white privilege theory, but it's only a good thing IF it applies to all who live here.
BTW, unions started to lose popularity when they started courting Black people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiiq-1KKSPg
Ironically, we are discussing the ways "Happy Days" were not happy.
Segregation was legal.
Gay people had to hide themselves.
"The good ole days" 😡
There are much more effective (and efficient) ways to improve the fairness of the U.S. Tax Code.
Shut the fuc* up and start trying to see beyond yourself. Also, Unions will be destroyed by those same people who want to go back to the 1950s. Unless they become segregated but maybe you don't care
Jim Crow
Black folks were being lynched.
Black folks were not allowed in unions.
Black folks - no GI Bill/Soc Sec - but we paid taxes
We can increase the EFFECTIVE tax rate without raising the MARGINAL tax rate on the wealthy. And we can LOWER the marginal tax rate on the working and middle classes.
Why? Because Smith's work details how exploitation is not only morally wrong, it's also counter productive.
Parasites don't make you stronger, they make you sick.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/15/2316333/-American-Values-and-the-Disinformation-Campaign-Against-Capitalism
100% agree.
Not so sure - true capitalism maximizes efficiency and innovation, and individuals having freedom of choice to make the best decisions for their own quality of life. I think these work to allow the most "good" pop. growth while hedging against too much.
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https://www.rawstory.com/gop-thought/