Oh. My. God. LMAO. That idiot Tea Partier clearly has no knowledge of the fifties besides what's promoted by pop culture. If the Tea Party is really for "smaller government" and lower taxes, the idea of them saying that the
fifties with its tax rates and government power and regulation were better than is almost Orwellian. Teabaggers also seem to hate unions too, and the question as to whether unions had more power in the fifties or today isn't even really worthy of debate.
More evidence these Tea Party clowns have no clue what they're talking about.
There was as much promiscuity, drug use, alcoholism, etc etc in the wonderful 1950s - but it was just covered up.
Actually even that's not really true. It just wasn't covered in the media works of the time due to all the oppressive government regulations (remember, small government!) and since that's all anyone judges an era on today it leads to this fairly amusing view that the fifties were some sweet wholesome utopia like in Leave It To Beaver. It's not too dissimilar from believing that the 70s were like The Brady Bunch or the 90s were like Full House.
