It's weird that Trumpers want to go back to the 1950's

[ck4829]

There was no 911 system back then for them to call when they saw black people in their field of vision.

[dalton99a]

1. "Hello. I want to report a colored man"

[Dave Starsky]

6. I hate myself for laughing as hard as I did at that. n/t

[Boxerfan]

2. 1850's

Seriously

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. They didn't call the police back then to take care of POC

though the police looked the other way when other people did. :-/

[greymattermom]

4. Everyone smoked

Women were thin and size 8 was considered small. Folks didn't eat snacks all day. There was no day care. Cocktail parties were the thing. Women had to wear stockings and girdles. Neighborhoods were exclusionary. No Jews were allowed in certain subdivisions. Girls had to wear dresses or skirts to school. No shorts were ever allowed at school, and the buildings weren't air conditioned.

[dalton99a]

7. .

[Armymedic88]

10. I still smoke camels..

And some devil lettuce every now and then to get through this administration lol

[Dave Starsky]

8. Supermarket scene, 1964.

[SharonAnn]

17. Polio epidemics occurred. More people died in auto accidents.

More people died from pneumonia.
Women could only hold certain jobs.

[greymattermom]

5. Lots more "colored" folks were seen in fancy neighborhoods

because they were the help. Kitchens were closed off from the rest of the house, because that's where "the help" worked. No open concept ever. Our "help", Charlotte, made the best country ham and tiny dinner rolls ever. You had to iron everything. We had a once a week person who came to the house just to iron. More "help".

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. 1750s

1. Only men could vote.
2. Slavery was legal.
3. The Constitution hadn't been written yet, so the founding principles of the young nation had not been formed. Clearly a theocratic corporate oligarchy would have been the preferred form of government to many of the powers-that-be. I truly think that's the long term goal of the current actors. We already have a puppet king.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Anyone born after the 50's doesn't want to go back to the 50's

Really no one does. People in their 60's and older are into all their devices, internet, and such. They wouldn't have them back then.

[zipplewrath]

12. That never existed

Truth be known, the 50's they remember didn't exist. Everything was expensive. People owned one car, and took the bus. You died of heart disease and cancer, there were no real treatments. Upward mobility was very hard, your best hope was a well paying blue collar union job. Women could be fired for almost any reason, including not sleeping with the boss. No one flew anywhere.

[Yavin4]

16. Their image of the 1950s is based on TV shows like "Ozzie & Harriet" and "Leave it to Beaver"

A fictionalized account of the typical American life.

[Retrograde]

19. I disagree about the upward mobility to some extent

The G.I Bill made college available to WWII and Korean War vets, many of whom - like my father and uncles - were the first in their families to get a higher education. Many jobs were still closed to women - some who had gotten jobs during the war managed to keep them, but most of the war-time workers lost their jobs when the men returned. And hiring discrimination based on just about anything was legal.

And no reliable or easily obtainable birth control either.

[zipplewrath]

20. If they could

The GI bill assuredly helped alot of people. But compared to today, there was actually less upward mobility. If you were white upper class you could do quite well. If you weren't, even with the Bill, it was a real challenge to "break in" to the upper economic classes. It was beginning to collapse, but country clubs and exclusion from higher end educations endured into the '60s. It was well into the '70s before the public education system stopped targeting children for various forms of education based upon social structures. Prior to that, women were often pushed towards the clerk/secretarial type careers as early as high school. Blue collar kids were often pushed into the trades. If you didn't come FROM an upper class, you were often targeted to STAY out of the upper class as early as high school, if not even before.

The awareness of this effect was only really becoming fully understood about the same time as affirmative action and diversity efforts began to become "mainstream". It varied widely by geography as well.

[catbyte]

13. And the corporate tax rate was 90%

[unc70]

14. Pregnancy leave - Get pregnant, leave your job

No insurance, no benefits, no job!

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Re-institution of Jim Crow laws?

Overturn Brown?

[Oneironaut]

18. "Remember when ya could just shoot 'em? I long fer those days!"

[GoCubsGo]

21. Yep, and especially now that they love Russia so much.

It was just two or three years ago that they were likening Democrats to that "bunch of commies". They were still fighting the Cold War up until Dear Leader swore his allegiance to the ex-head of the KGB. "Ignorant and stupid" doesn't even begin to describe this bunch of nutjobs.