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<[onex]>Headstone wrote:

K8Kommunist wrote:

There's a reason why "traditional American values" don't have a place in modern America.

There is? Please elaborate, Thanks.

The real traditional American values are ingenuity, individualism and unbridled ambition. Traditional American values has nothing to do with Leave it to Beaver, the 1950s, feminists, activist judges, or illegal aliens. Nope, the current set "traditional american values" is a replacement of the original, authentic reality with a wistful nostalgia for the mind boggling conformity of the 1950s, flavored with decisively neo-conservative political views.
Societal values are reflections of the times. You cannot just transplant the feelings and politics of the 1950s into an era 50 years later faced by entirely different problems and threats.
There's a set of values associated with every epoch of American history. They evolve with our society and politics, as they should. The painstaking conformity of the 1950s are just as traditional as any set of values throughout American history. Why not revert back to the values of the 1800s? They are certainly as traditional as the values so extolled here.
I'd also like to add that praying for a resurgence of the attitudes of the 1950s is a totally lost cause. Take 5 minutes with a history book and you'll find that the attitudes of the 1950s was the result of a slew of societal and political phenomena, which will never repeat themselves.