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rob05c  ·  3568 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History

    There is a definite nostalgia for the past in lower class america, especially right-wing lower class america.

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.

    presidential candidates have had to make of a show of their rugged masculinity

Which is why Fox lauds the shirtless Putin in derision of Obama.

    the Genteel Patriarch, or in modern parlance, an “elitist.”

The Genteel Patriarch may be identified by his use of phrases such as "in modern parlance."