re: The destructive influence of Norman Lear shows on society in the 1970’s

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It was the best script writing in sitcom history. And it ain't close How do you know if you stopped watching sitcoms once a baby was adopted on Green Acres?

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Because I saw the trend early. One of my best friends in college was a guy named Rick Hawkins. He was a very good actor and said 'Bye, Zach, I'm going to Hollywood.'
Me: 'Good luck. Hope you land a part.'
Him: 'I'm not going to act. I'm gonna write. Everyone in Hollywood can act. Very few can write.'

He went on to become writer/producer of Carol Burnett, Momma's Family, Punky Brewster. He made good money. But I watched bits of them because I knew him but they were not funny at all. He was not a good writer in college but he was easily good enough for network TV sitcoms. That's all I needed to know.

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He went on to become writer/producer of Carol Burnett, Momma's Family, Punky Brewster. He made good money. But I watched bits of them because I knew him but they were not funny at all. He was not a good writer in college but he was easily good enough for network TV sitcoms. That's all I needed to know

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This is a laughably pitiful response.

On All in the Family, Meathead was represented as an idealistic fool as often as some kind of liberal sage. He and Archie were stereotypes.

And almost universally, the audience loved Archie and despised Meathead.

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i enjoyed most of those shows and i didnt turn into a raging progressive.

hollywood has always been pro-socialism and liberal.

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Same. We never watched Maude when I was a kid, because she was pretty much a raging bitch. We watched All in the Family, Sanford and Son, and I'm sure many more of his programs. Yet I grew up having arguments and debates with my teachers when they spouted liberal bullshite. And no, marxist democrats didn't like to be hit with facts in 1982 any better than they do now. If what they were doing was indoctrination, it didn't work on me.

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But what is happening today is not a conspiracy. People aren't gathered in secret meetings hatching schemes.

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Agreed, but the intent to divide and pit everyone against each other in a great big political or social grasp for power over one another is the game. It’s Marxism, plain and simple.

In anything as simple as getting married and women refusing to take the husband’s last name because it’s some practice rooted in patriarchal dominance, nevermind that they themselves carry a last name rooted in their father’s patriarchal dominance. It’s rooted in one big grasp for power. Similar things like race, and economics, or gender, and belief are also areas which the left pits one group of Americans against the other for power.

People always say how divided we are today, and they are correct, we most definitely are more divided than ever before, but this in my estimation is the genesis of all of it, and fueled by Marxist ideology that shows itself in these very programs being discussed here. It is most difficult to have open dialogue or civil disagreement with anyone that lies on the far fringes of this war that marxists have created for us. This is again, not some happenstance, but pure agenda driven. It is intentional as it is that which drives America to the ultimate road to Marxism, and all through destabilization of American culture.

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Same. We never watched Maude when I was a kid, because she was pretty much a raging bitch. We watched All in the Family, Sanford and Son, and I'm sure many more of his programs. Yet I grew up having arguments and debates with my teachers when they spouted liberal bullshite. And no, marxist democrats didn't like to be hit with facts in 1982 any better than they do now. If what they were doing was indoctrination, it didn't work on me

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i freaking loved the jeffersons. even as a kid there were plenty of LOL moments where my dad would get so tickled that it would make me laugh.

george flopping down on the couch after an epic meltdown where his family all left and slammed the door and looks over at a giant stuffed bear next to him and KNOCKS IT ACROSS THE ROOM and says "WHAT THE HELL YOU STARIN AT"

that one gets me.

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Designing Women

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I'll one up you: Murphy Brown

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i freaking loved the jeffersons.

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Stephen A Smith is doing sports now..

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Sanford and Son

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Agreed. I thought the OP’s overall argument was well stated yet Sanford and Son does not really fit in with those others. It satirized what we would now call “woke” diversity as much or more than any other topic. Sanford & Son was an equal opportunity offender.

VIDEO LINK: Lamont Goes African…

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absurdity.

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Pat Buttram’s Mr. Haney was a master of cornpone surrealism. GA was closer to Monty Python than anything else on t.v. during that era.