Can 40 years of progress really be erased?

[Swede]

Can the fifties win over the sixties? The black and white fifties lost to the technicolor sixties,right?

[bemildred]

1. Nothing is permanent, nothing at all. nt

[Toucano]

2. Can, could, done, did. n/t

[Katherine Brengle]

3. It can be erased on paper, but not in the minds of the American people

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yes it can, and then it can be regained. The tide never stays still; it's

always moving.

[me b zola]

5. It's the opposite of Wizzard of OZ

We've already traveled back in time to black & white. I only hope that if I click my heels together three times life will be returned to normal again--in technicolor.

[johnaries]

6. It's easier and quicker to desroy something than to build it.

Simply, Yes.

[rodeodance]

7. We have been seeing it happen--espec. the last couple of decades.

[Mr_Spock]

8. Nah

Fortunately, even the RW freaks enjoy the benefits brought to them by the left. Think about how much could never be returned to.


They play at the edges to gain power for a while.


Ultimately we'll have to start moving forward again as a nation.


Fighting the boogieman gets old after a while.

[laheina]

9. No

It's easier to deny the people something that they have never had. Once a person has an experience, it becomes their norm. It will be infinately harder for the government to maintain a contrived and artificial reality, if it ever comes to that.

[rpgamerd00d]

10. see link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x331638

[Yollam]

11. Yes, but it's not the 50's over the 60's.

The 50's were much more progressive than the present in many ways, most notably labor action, progressive taxation, distribution of income, availability of healthcare. Things have not been worse for poor & working people in this country since the Gilded Age.

Most of the of things FDR accomplished with the New Deal, other than Social Security were destroyed by the 80s so sure, progress can be turned back.

I'm not sure if you're lamenting the loss of civil rights progress or the death of the sexual revolution and reproductive choice, but it seems only logical that those should fall next, since we've stolen the safety net from the poor and given it to the rich to use as a doily. We worship youth, beauty and money above all other things and view integrity and an earnest character as something to be ridiculed. Why not?


But anyway, I wouldn't characterize the sickos we have in power today as being anything like the 50's, except for a dash of McCarthy. Other than that, they are pure Third Reich.

[Vidar]

12. Already done. They're trying for the Dark Ages.

[David__77]

13. Yes and no. Hitler proved...

...the a couple hundred years of progress could be at least temporarily reversed. But he and other reactionaries are ultimately crushed by the wheel of history.