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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:31 AM Original message |
When Republicans look back longingly at "the good ol' days" what days are they looking at |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. The 1920's and Calvin Coolidge. |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. We all do this in fairness |
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AllieB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
3. Slavery. Jim Crow. Child Labor. Social Darwinism. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Right! |
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Sonicmedusa (613 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:55 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. That gets my nod too |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'm thinking the guilded age |
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ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
6. well my parents think the 50s is when it started going wrong |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:48 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Wow, your MOTHER believes that, as well? |
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ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 12:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. yes, she does! |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
7. A model of white christian perfection that exists only in their minds. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
8. the good ol` days is a myth |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
10. Looking thru those rose colored glasses |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
11. This age... (shcoking historical photo warning) |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
12. A mythical time that not one of them has ever experienced.... nt |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
13. I had one freeper-type tell me how great things were back in the early 1900's |
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momster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 09:05 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. No Unions, No Social Security... |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 12:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. US, circa 1890 was considered a third-world country by Europe, |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
15. The 1880s when laissez-faire economic policies dominated and capitalism ran out of control. |
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Graybeard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
17. Ed Koch tells this story about his first run for Mayor of NYC... |
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WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
18. Non partisan ethics, integrity, courage? ....n/t |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
19. Nazi Germany in the late 30's |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
20. Days when "wimmin & brown people" knew their "place"..n/t |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 12:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. that's my guess. When it was good for them, but for everyone else? Not so much. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
21. A WASP wonderland created by non-WASPs in Hollywood |
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WhollyHeretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-15-07 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
23. To turn the clock back to 1900 |
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