"Family Ties" glorified conservatism??? You have got to be kidding me? That show was about as bleeding-heart, treehugging, liberal as you can get. Yes, Alex P. Keaton was a sympathetic character, but his conservatism was simply a means to get laughs, NEVER something that was morally applauded on the show. Quite the contrary.
You must have been reading too much conservapedia: http://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Greatest_Conservative_TV_Shows
Indeed, if Naso had been old enough to watch it when it was on, as I was... he'd know Alex was for comic relief.
I mean... the guy had a Nixon lunchbox... less than 15 years after Watergate...
This. Reading Naso's worshipful idealization of a decade he was about 15 years too young to experience never fails to amuse.
His knowledge of the 80's based on sitcoms is like basing one's knowledge of medieval history on a Rennaissance Faire.
