Forty years ago tonight All in the Family debuted on TV. We first got to know Archie and Edith and Meathead. We saw a blue collar family infused with politically charge dialogue and socially conscious topics. Archie could say things that the average American couldn't or wouldn't say in public. Yet here he was, on national TV, voicing his narrow opinions without hesitation or apology.
Archie illustrated four decades of conservatives lashing out against liberals. Four decades of comically times bigotry and racism. Four decades of a head strong character calling for fiscal responsibility and smaller government. Four decades of socially current commentary in a sit-com time frame.
Sounds like Archie is the new poster boy for the Tea Party movement forty years after his debut. Perhaps some of what he said and thought resonated so well with the American public that it has taken four decades to put his philosophy into practice and is what we are seeing as the political wave behind the midterm election backlash.
My mom always told me if you keep something long enough it will come back in style.
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