Our country Doctor rambles:
Yes, apart from his belated support for gay marriage and the abolition of DADT, Obama is exactly a conservative from 50 years ago. Back in the good old days.
But right-wing rhetoric has shifted so far that Eisenhower and Nixon and Ford and Reagan would nowadays be considered Evil Communist Marxists Who Want To Destroy America if they stood on their policies today. Obama continues their tradition, but you are so far right that you can't appreciate that from a historical perspective America has just re-elected a moderate Republican.
Just thinking now about the campaign ads that were basically oriented towards the tone-deaf Republicans and Romney towards women ("The War On Women!!") that came out during this campaign. The last ones were all about changing your clocks back 1 hour as Daylight Savings Time ended November 4th, with the added caution not to set your clocks back 60 years!
Sure, the tax brackets in the Eisenhower years would be nice to have again. But the Ozzie & Harriet cream-of-wheat white patriarchal family shit is not something we want to see be dominant again.
The bridge at midnight trembles....
- xongsmith, 5.7d