YOUR CORRESPONDENT HAS LONG BEEN OF THE BELIEF that articles of faith held dear among cultural conservatives amount to doublethink in large measure. Witness where:

• on the one hand, the Zealots and True Believers thereof are forever seeing Amerikanischer Realkultur to be Morally Superior to all other specimens thereof; but,
• on the other hand, the same element is forever taking issue with same for its "unhealthy attention and emphasis" upon sex and violence to the point of "undermining Traditional Moral and Family Values***as have been the foundation of our antient and pecuilar soverignty and soverign identity."

Especially when you stop and consider the "litmus test" of this presumed "moral superiority"--which the Supreme Court, in Miller v. California, would describe as "prevailing community standards" to be applied by the average person in determining whether a work is obscene--preferred by cultural conservatives would likely be none other than Die Bransoner Muzikschaukultur, which sees the "music shows" in and around Branson, Missouri to be The One True Center and Acme of Amerikanischer Realkultur, if only because of their subtly promoting a sugar-coated patriotic ideal consistent with conservative ideals.

Ideals, it seems, hard-wired back in the 1950's of Ozzie and Harriet, I Love Lucy, Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver--all rather sugar-coated in and of themselves when you consider the Inconvenient Truths of 1950's-model "Traditional Values" held dear by cultural conservatives:

• The maintenance of White Christian Supremacy requiring contempt, scorn and ridicule towards the poor (especially if they were on relief, as welfare was commonly known in the 1950's) and National Minorities.
• The moral supremacy of America being conditioned by the defence of free-market capitalism as Great White Father, especially so in the Greater Struggle against International Communism.
• Enforced patriotism and xenophobia being necessary for the sake of common national identity in the face of Communism.
• The poor being all the more so because of "moral weakness" more than anything, requiring all manner of contempt "to make sure they know their place."
• The use of "patriotism" as an excuse to intolerance, bigotry and xenophobia--not to mention use of mental-hygiene laws as then written to silence or otherwise intimidate those suspected of offering "dissenting" viewpoints.
• The worst problems with television were not so much sex and violence (in fact, there were complaints that many of the Westerns then popular were promoting violence in children) as sponsor and ad-agency interference in programme content, aided and abetted by the industry-sanctioned "blacklist" of such suspected as being "Communists" based mostly on hearsay.
  (Case in point: A 1958 adaptation of Judgement at Nuremburg on the CBS drama anthology series Playhouse 90 aroused the ire of its sponsor, the American Gas Association, who promptly asked that all reference to the use of gas by the Nazi regime to kill Jews be deleted lest viewers get the wrong ideas--as in one memorable instance in which "gas ovens" was bleeped out--by implication.)
• The Greatest Moral Danger to American Youth was seen to come from the likes of horror, crime, war and science-fiction comic magazines; highly-sensationalised "true crime" and "true adventure" pulp magazines (themselves implicated in influencing the debauched murders of Ed Gein in late 1957) and the nascent National Enquirer. (Oh, and let's not forget highly-sensationalised gossip magazines with names like Confidential  ["Tells the Facts and Names the Names--Uncensored and Off the Record"] and Hush Hush.)
• The harrassment of parents by children in influencing purchasing decisions was tacitly endorsed and tolerated by children's TV show hosts (as in "ask your mom to buy--"), even if such amounted to outright nuisance sure to send the parents into nervous breakdown.
• The overzealous defence of free-market capitalism requiring all manner of tacit bureauracy to be dealt with in case consumers had problems with products or services they purchased ("exhausion of administrative powers") before turning to the only option frustrated consumers usually had--the Better Business Bureau--and even then, all manner of prissy language and tact had to be used.

And these the cultural conservatives call "traditional values***as will save America from herself"?  

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AND ANOTHER THING: Quite often, much of this same propaganda about the "moral superiority" of Amerikanischer Realkultur will make rather liberal use of terms like "we" and "our" throughout.

How do we know these aren't really code and/or "weasel words" carrying racist or otherwise anti-Semitic significance in cultural-conservative circles, howbeit rather subtle and discreet (and resorting to all manner of ruses to avoid attracting suspicion of racism or appealing to latent racist feelings)?

Has anybody thought of such a possibility here? If not, what would prevent this?