Discuss: the GOP is still having trouble coming to grips with the 20th century...

[WCGreen]

How can any reasonable person think they could deal with the 21st century.

They have had enough time to add their thoughts and grievances.

[Xipe Totec]

1. 20th? n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Eh, they're always looking backwards...

Stuck in a time that never was...

[BeyondGeography]

3. Politically speaking, they mastered the 20th century

and they had so much fun they're still living in it.

[Jennicut]

4. Try the 12th century. I think they are still stuck in the dark ages.

[lunatica]

5. They never did get past the 1950s because they think Leave It To Beaver

was a Reality Show.

[WCGreen]

6. It wasn't...

[Aristus]

8. The more I think about it, the more I believe the repukes would have hated the Fifties.

Think about it: A strong American manufacturing base, well-paying factory jobs, strong unions, wages that kept pace with inflation, excellent public schools (albeit only for white people, so it's a wash...) a comparatively low national debt, a miniscule budget deficit, almost no credit card debt, low-interest mortgages, small, prosperous Mom-and-Pop stores, huge numbers of family-owned farms selling produce to local markets, a few remaining municipal transit systems, strong public confidence in the Federal government...

There were lots of really awful things about the Fifties: segregation, a culture of white privilege and power, anti-Communist paranoia, stifling conformity, things the GOP-ers remember fondly. But mostly, today's repukes would have hated the 1950's.

[csziggy]

7. Is that why so many keep refering to the "turn of the century" meaning 1900?

Because that is really bugging me. Maybe in 2001-2002 that was OK, but we're nearly a decade into this century, the "turn of the century" means 2000 now.