With all the talk about "liberal elites" and "snobbish socialism," I'm sure conservatives would codify their "rules for living" into law -- if they were just given the chance.
Afterall, they have some urgent voices urging them on ...
Culture Warrior
Wikipedia
[... Bill ] O'Reilly asserts that the United States is in the midst of a "culture war" between "traditionalists" and "secular-progressives". O'Reilly appeared on The Colbert Report to promote the book and revealed he is in the Grand Canyon in the picture on the cover.
O'Reilly declares war against "the committed forces of the secular-progressive movement that want to dramatically change America, molding it in the image of Western Europe".
[...]
Although no organization defines itself as secular progressive or as part of a secular progressive movement, O'Reilly has identified the groups and organizations he considers apply to this label, including Hollywood liberals, Al Franken, UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whom he considers a threat to traditional American society. [...]
That's some enemies list you got there Bill-O. I'm surprised you even took a meeting with Barack Obama.
Here's another Conservative who would have avoided that interview O'Reilly -- like a free ticket to a College Sorority-Frat Mixer on Halloween ...
Santorum: Obama ‘trying to crush the traditional Judeo-Christian values of America’
by Felicia Sonmez, washingtonpost blogs -- 02/22/2012
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“Essentially, we are going to have to hold together on some set of moral codes and principles,” Santorum said at the Sabbar Shrine in downtown Tucson, speaking before an enthusiastic tea party crowd of about 500 people ahead of an evening CNN debate.
“And we’re seeing very evidently what the president’s moral codes and principles are about. We see a president who is systematically trying to crush the traditional Judeo-Christian values of America. We saw it with Obamacare and the implementation of Obamacare, where his values are going to be imposed on a church’s values.”
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What is a "good conservative" to do? So much free beer and condoms --
so little time to confiscate them them all!
Well maybe this religious high-horse rider has a few thoughts on how the Moral Majority (which he invented btw) can save themselves from the onslaught of 'European Civility' encroaching on their fragile American way of life ...
Newt Gingrich and the Future of the Right
by Thomas B. Edsall, blogs.nytimes -- January 29, 2012
[...] Paul Weyrich — mastermind of the union of the Republican Party and the Christian right, a founder of the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the Free Congress Foundation — threw up his hands in despair.
In a letter to his ideological allies, Weyrich declared: “I no longer believe that there is a moral majority. I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually shares our values.”
Weyrich declared defeat:
Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture. The question becomes, if we are unable to escape the cultural disintegration that is gripping society, then what hope can we have?
In the face of this onslaught of moral corruption, Weyrich counseled withdrawal from society at large. A “legitimate strategy for us to follow is to look at ways to separate ourselves from the institutions that have been captured by the ideology of Political Correctness, or by other enemies of our traditional culture,” he wrote. “We need to drop out of this culture, and find places, even if it is where we physically are right now, where we can live godly, righteous and sober lives.”
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We need to drop out of this culture" --
that's your solution, Weyrich? Wash your hands of the non-stop heathen Toga Party, that keeps drowning out those weekly angelic choirs of yours?
Science and Progress and Civility will be the end of "traditional culture" someday ... we'll see?
"Well, isn't that special!" The Dominionists have nothing over you back-to-the-landers under-the-radar organizers, eh?
Assuming the master-instigator of the Christian right Paul Weyrich, had a WayBack Machine, and could magically send his inner circle as far as he like to go, to escape those dreaded ideologies of Political Correctness, Obamacare, and Secular-Progressives -- just how far back do you think he would dare to go, to preserve their 'Politically Uncorrect' way of life?
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
link to video
If cartoonish realities fail well, there's always taking over legislative agendas.
How far back are conservatives hoping to go anyways?
All the way back to the 19th Century maybe? ... just pick a year, and dial it in. And "all will be well in their world" again.
Or so the conservative theory goes ...
19th Century Timeline
19th Century - the technology, science, and inventions
by Mary Bellis, About.com Guide
1800
* Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
* Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
1804
* Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
* Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the very rails it was traveling on.
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1814
* George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive.
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* Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
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1815
* Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
1819
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* René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
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1825
* William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
1827
* John Walker invents modern matches.
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1829
* American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
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1837
* Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
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1839
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* Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
* Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
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1845
* American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
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1846
* Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
1847
* Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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1856
* Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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1858
* Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
* Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
1861
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* Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle.
1866
* Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
* J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
* Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
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Well maybe not THAT far back -- how about only rolling-back America to somewhere in the 20th Century -- you know the "good old days." The century when 'fortunes could be made,' for a dime a dozen ... if you were lucky ... smart ... or just born rich ...
20th Century Timeline
20th Century - the technology, science, and inventions
by Mary Bellis, About.com Guide
1903
* Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
* Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
* The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
* Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
* William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
1904
* Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
* Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
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1905
* Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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1906
* William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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1909
* Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
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1910
* Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
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1913
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* Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
* Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper.
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1919
* The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
* Short-wave radio invented.
* The flip-flop circuit invented.
* The arc welder invented.
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1920
* The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson.
1923
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* Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
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1924
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* Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
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1928
* Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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1930
* Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew.
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1931
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* Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
1932
* Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
* The zoom lens and the light meter invented.
* Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter.
* Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
1933
* Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
* Stereo records invented.
* Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his driveway.
1934
* Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors.
* Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
* Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
1935
* Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon
* The first canned beer made.
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Who needs all that new-fangled technology of the 21st century anyways?
If "traditional" fossil fuels and typewriters and the lack of refrigeration, were good enough for our fore-fathers, then they are good enough for Traditional Americans, who are just trying to hang onto the last vestiges of their "Father Knows Best" way of life.
Mr. Peabody and Sherman Travel WayBack to 1953 (Iraq)
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Just set the dial, turn off your critical-thinking mind, and you never know where you might end up? Back in the idyllic "Little House on the Prairie" storybook isolation ...
Maybe even, in the 'Here and Now' ... as if ... that were even possible.
"Today" is all we got, isn't it? All we ever got. Bummer.
Better make the most of it. ... It.is.your.destiny, dudes and dudettes ...