Will America ever be restored to 50's values?

Question

Will America ever be restored to 50's values?

Answer 1

Been there; done that. It definitely wasn't as ideal as it was depicted. In fact, if I'd been an adult in the 50's, I wouldn't have been able to make my living as the female owner of a construction company, nor would I have been able to get bank loans for my business. I'd have been riduculed and there were no discrimination laws in place that would have protected my 'rights' (women back then had 'privileges', not 'rights')

Answer 2

UGH, I certainly hope not......how boring.

Answer 3

No, there are other factors, events and movement that cannot take it back there.  I'm not sure I would want that anyway.  It wasn't all good.

Answer 4

Interesting thought but it is not possible today . In the fifties the death from the last war was much closer to every life.

Answer 5

No, I'm afraid not. The other folks here cited the lack of opportunities and depictions from TV. But you're talking about values. And I'm afraid this is gone for good. Now there's the American Civil Liberties Union, and Democrats, which work against a country's character and integrity until it's gone. There are some places like Montana, Wyoming, northern rural North Dakota and Minnesota. But these are the final frontiers where decisions are made based on decency and facts regarding right and wrong. And where people understand that being productive is how you earn what you want and need. And don't think the country owes them something.

Answer 6

I sincerely hope not.

You obviously were not alive in the 1950's.

The book "The Ugly American" came out as a result of those values, we were building such a sterling world image, see where we are today.

Brown v The Board of Ed came in the fifties I am glad that level of attitude is no longer in existence.

There was not one person one vote in the South as some people weren't considered people.

Women as a group were still considered as chattel, owned by the men who married them.

Then the law could have squelched the rise of drugs and gangs but didn't because it only affected "those" people.

Do you really want to regress to the 'bad ole days'?

Answer 7

Hah,no.

Americas falling apart and unless you make big changes in your politics you ll continue devolving

Answer 8

No.  Too many race, religion and culture issues have been woven into the American fabric for good and/or bad and values, ethics and morals are now what they are.  The 50s was an idealized, if horrendously phony time, when everything was White and the suburbs were lived as if the Nelsons were our neighbors and everyone believed in God, country and the American Way.  The 50s denied the reality of life for anyone not Middle Class and above, something that came home to roost in the 60s.  The 60s changed everything for all time, again for both good (somewhat) and bad (a lot).  We live with grit today and it is just going to get worse as drugs, gangs and whoring (male and female) decimate the so-called American way of life.  It is just about over in terms of what we remember of that ordered life once lived in this could-have-been-great society now but a memory.

Answer 9

No. Societies never change back to the way things were before, even though in history they have tried to do so on a number of occasions.

The world has changed fundamentally ever since. Its impossible.

Answer 10

...is there a country who could be restored to the past values?

just people could restore themselves....their families..friends///places of work...etc

we go toward apocalips///and we kow that apocalips is not a society shining of morality

Answer 11

People in the 50's valued hiding everything so no we can never go back to that it didn't work as books & tv made it look.

Answer 12

hopefully no. a terrible time when social injustice was hidden from view.