Flash forward a half century. We have nothing like All in the Family. We have no communal mass entertainment channels to spark conversations.
Through bigoted Archie Bunker, the popular television show All in the Family injected challenging topics like race and abortion into the conversations of American families 50 years ago. In one of the best known episodes, cab driving Archie has Sammy Davis, Jr. as a passenger, resulting in comedic chaos. began airing on television in 1971, and my family watched it together every week.
All in the Family was the number one show in America for five years. Across the country, millions of families just like mine listened to those same discussions about societal topics. Week after week, year after year, families across the nation based conversations on identical source material. Even the national news media are splintered. People who watch Fox News see only the stories that portray their candidates in a favorable light. People who watch other channels get the opposite. Rarely does anyone cross over to understand what the others are seeing.I’ve had a good taste of this in the emails and texts I’ve received since Tuesday’s elections.
The gist of that message is that if you’re one of those who are upset about Tuesday’s results, get yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again, to quote a Jerome Kern tune. That’s what Trump supporters did these last four years. We have another election in 2028. Aim for it. That’s the beauty of our democracy. Every four years, we get to start all over again -- all the while, voicing our opinions and standing up for our ideals.
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