Explaining To MAGA Why The 1950s Wasn't That Swell

"Explaining to Conservatives Why the 50's Weren't As Great As they Think" 

Source:Yaron Brook talking about Beaver Cleaver's 1950s America.

From Yaron Brook

No offense to Yaron Brook: but his YouTube video sounds like a college lecture, where you are just trying to throw as many facts and figures as you can at your audience for them to write down and try to remember (while they're not following asleep) in the audience, trying to listen to them. And he is a former college professor, so that would explain his approach to this video and maybe YouTube in general. 

But I agree with Yaron Brook that life wasn't that great for a lot of Americans back then. As someone who grew up in Maryland in the 1980s, just outside of Washington, I couldn't imagine what it would be like to get through the hot, humid, summers around here, either at home, or at summer camp, or at a job some place, without air conditioning. But that's just me. 

But if you are a woman, (of any racial or ethnic background) your future was already picked out for you by the establishment in society, that was made up primarily Anglo-Saxon-Protestant men and their devoted wives and it a certain extent the government as well. You were expected to finish high school and get married, perhaps work as a waitress or a secretary, until you find the right man to support you for the rest of your life. 

And of course if you were a minority, including ethnic minorities like Jews, Italians, Spaniards, etc and not just racial minorities like Africans, Asians, Americans Indians, including female minorities... you were basically living in a police state. Life in America could be hell for you, especially in small towns, or perhaps anywhere in the South. The Anglo-Saxon establishment in those communities, saw you in many cases as even sub-human and not just Un-American. And you could even be denied an education, along with employment, banking, housing, and even voting, simply because the community there didn't like your race or ethnicity. 

So when I hear that the 1950s was better for America by the far-right, my response to that is always: "Better for who?' Obviously not better for people whose families didn't come here voluntarily from Britain on the Mayflower or from some other boat from the 1620s. 

The far-right in America has always had this fantasy that John Wayne's or Jimmy Stewart's "It's a Wonderful Life" America is the American utopia. The America where the man worked, come home around 5 or 6PM and open the door and say something like: 

"Honey, I'm home!" 

With his housewife there with her man's favorite drink and newspaper ready for him saying: 

"Hi honey. How was your day?" 

And maybe their son Billy is there to greet Dad and he says to  his father something like:

"Hi, Dad. Are we still going to the game on Friday?" 

That 1950s America worked very well... if you were an Anglo-Saxon man. Back then, you didn't need even a college degree to take care of your wife and 2 kids. Just a good job at a local factory or some other blue-collar place of business. But life was a lot better for the Anglo-Saxon men who did have college degrees and perhaps inherited a lot of money from their father, like his business. But for the rest of the country, including more than 50% of the country that were women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds,,, life was certainly not "swell" for most of those people. 

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