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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I always imagined the fetishizing of the 50's came from people growing up in the McCarthy era where if you didn't announce what a GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL AND FREE AND NOT COMMUNIST COUNTRY AMERICA IS every 5 seconds you got blacklisted. A lot of the modern in-power conservatives (or their parents, in some cases) came of age in that and took it entirely at face value and then the 60's hit them like a brick and now we must suck since we totally used to love america way more all the time The funny thing is that the high rate of US income tax in the 50s wasn't just higher than the current one (91% vs. 39.6%), it's higher than any other current tax rate in the world.
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