This is what the opposition to abortion is all about, to return to the 1950s. To denigrate half the human race to glamorize the fetus is par for the course. Motherhood and marriage were all that defined women during the fifties and long before and still defines them in the eyes of the religious right. They are simply things for men, the real humans, to use.
The 1950s, despite the great cars, the great music, the classic television programs, the classic movies, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Little Richard, and Elvis, was not all that for most people. It was an era of racial segregation still being entrenched despite USSC decisions ordering desegregation, it was an era where women were fired following WW II from male-dominated jobs and forced into the house whether they wanted to or not. It was an era where an insane amount of children per family were born and when "homemaking" was made into a "career" for women; however, it was absolutely not an option for men, which tells a person everything they need to know about the lionization of women in the home. Tax laws favoring married people came into the fore, and it goes on and on. Yes, it was prosperous economically, but it was at the expense of millions of people cut out of the American Dream.
NEVER underestimate the hold this era has and continues to have on the American public.
This severe constriction of life paths back then led directly to the upheaval of the 1960s. This was the biggest fallout from the era.
The irony is supporting the far right or "libertarianism" supports the further destruction of the standard of living in the United States. Trump has done nothing to reverse the trend. Maybe the pandemic will show the folly of believing in neoliberalism/Friedmanism, but I doubt it. The politicians in both parties have been in love with the discredited and debunked nonsense for years.
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