The Road to Hell Is Paved With Progressive Intentions

Progressives (aka, secular relativist atheist or Chino utopians) are either blind to the fact or loathe to admit that the state of things in America was better at some time in the past than it is today and will be tomorrow, praises be to postmodernity’s three stooges, Charlie, Karl, and Sigmund the Fraud. The time in question is the decade in which I was raised, the left’s favorite historical punching bag, the 1950s.

Some of you may already be flinching, screwing up your mugs, and hissing menacingly. If that is your reaction, I can but implore you to bear with me. I am fully cognizant of the fact that America was an imperfect place, as it always has been and always will be, in the Truman-Eisenhower era. But even the imperfections were less imperfect than they are today. Furthermore, the imperfections did not border on lunacy, as do many of today’s. Let me count the ways: