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We'd be so much better off if we just admitted that we're making it up as we go along.

There's long been this sense that the right isn't loved with the past.

Specifically, a 1950s lever-to-beaver style post-war America

when industry was booming, the economy was soaring,

and the middle class could just middle class without an interference.

Constant growth seemed imminent.

Of course, this is a pre-civil rights, pre-feminist, heavily crushed in America,

which opens the sentiment up to all sorts of criticism.

At times, it feels like the rights fascination with a nostalgia that never actually existed,

this myth of a perfect America, is indicative of their racism and misogyny.

And for some, it likely is, though I feel that this phenomenon speaks as much to biology as sociology.

Plus, my focus here really isn't on the right,

or at least not in terms of traditional conservatism.

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