Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
rob05c · 3568 days ago · link · · parent · post: Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History
I think it's also a factor that Conservatism, by definition, believes the past was better, and we need to stick to it, and return to it. Which is hard to believe while recalling past atrocities. Which is why Fox lauds the shirtless Putin in derision of Obama. The Genteel Patriarch may be identified by his use of phrases such as "in modern parlance."There is a definite nostalgia for the past in lower class america, especially right-wing lower class america.
presidential candidates have had to make of a show of their rugged masculinity
the Genteel Patriarch, or in modern parlance, an “elitist.”