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To: bentway who wrote (570808)	6/8/2010 4:15:56 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1578331

A letter to the editor today... For many, the past wasn't that rosy A recurring motif in speeches by far right superstars like Sarah Palin seems to be their longing to return to a 1950s that never was, when in their Norman Rockwell-addled imaginations, American life was just one prolonged episode of "The Andy Griffith Show." Go ahead, offer a time travel pass back to the nightmarish era of George Wallace and Orville Faubus and see what you get in reply, provided your ears are strong enough for the response. I can't speak for Mayberry, but in many places Jews were denied memberships in country clubs, swimming pools or even homes in suburbia. (2 of 2) Just one viewing of the superior "Mad Men," and you see the gut-level status of working women back in the day, when, despite their education, the most they could hope for was a good seat in the secretarial pool. Of course, I realize conservative anti-feminists believe that's the punishment those women deserved for daring to be anywhere other than the kitchen or delivery room. Yes, I have great memories of the 1950s: Don Larsen's heroic World Series game, buying my first Buddy Holly single, early Elvis on Sun Records and the wondrous wide-screen Westerns directed by John Ford, etc. Yet, I cannot allow myself to forget that the decade ended with a ferocious blast of religious hatred, when an Irish Catholic had the audacity to not only run for president but win the job. We can't revise our mistakes, but we can learn lessons from them, hard as that may seem to conservatives.