Bring Back the Gilded Era! and other trends we never thought

[salin]

we would see brought back to our society... nominations?

[pbeal]

1. whalebone corsets

[salin]

4. well - the practical thing is one might be able to use the oil

from the whale for lamps when electricity becomes to expensive...

[Beetwasher]

2. Chastity Belts?

Cod pieces.

How about Scarlet Letters?

Also, there's nothing like a good witch burning! Can't wait for those to come back in fashion!

[salin]

5. Scarlet would look so good on some of our legislators

and on Rudy... this time around we do have gender equality, you know...

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. I always liked skimmers and raccoon coats, n/t

[salin]

7. let's bring back other "good" eras... a racoon coat clad Joe McCarthy??

oh what joys the radical right wants to bestow upon us...

[Warpy]

6. The age of the Robber Barons

along with the incredibly destructive Horatio Alger myth.

[salin]

8. a myth? why just look at bush

oh, thats never mind... ;-)

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. You do know about Alger, don't you? How he was dismissed from

his position working with teenage boys for inappropriate acts. Ever read his books? The plucky young hero never makes it by his own entrepnurial skills, but by hooking up with an older, established man as a mentor, and then marrying his daughter.

Creepy.

[salin]

9. In honor of todays mad cad story... how about we curse Upton

Sinclair for vilifying the meat packing industry...

[Butterflies]

11. Let's start building bomb shelters again

It'll be fun to spend weekends in them practicing for the real thing . . . eating crackers . . drinking bottled water . . cowering in the dark. Yea!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Dead laborers are a cost of doing business..bring back the Hoover era

let's build a dam with slave labor from dustbowl workers and name it after Bush!

[salin]

15. but with a corporate twist.... we privatize the damn

and let private industry make scads of dollars by pumping the price of water higher than the Taj Mahal!

[Union Thug]

18. Seriously, can water privatization be far off?

Just asking...

[salin]

19. Indianapolis, IN deprivatized its public water

a couple of years ago... going against the trend. Yes, some communities are moving towards privatized water.

[EmpireWeAre]

13. Child labor and Jim Crow laws!

And government Of, By and For the Corporations, oops.. we're there now, my bad.

[Union Thug]

14. Let's have the cops amass at strikes and start gunning down..

...striking workers.

Strong arms of the propertied class really needs to become the vogue for good law enforcement officers of the Bush era.

[salin]

16. striking workers? unions? are those still legal...?

[Union Thug]

17. Good point.

:-|

[salin]

20. bring back the company store, sweatshops, and

subsistence share cropping... bush is pushing for his guest workers program in order to drive down already decreasing wage levels... woohoo!

[depakid]

21. Poorfarms... workhouses.. debtors prisons...

I would actually not be surprised to see Republicans propose any of these things. At this point, nothing would shock me.