The Good old days

I have been searching the web for images to support a project I'm working on to upload to you tube.and i keep running across sites and videos pining for the "Good old days". mostly influenced by Glean Beck,and Bill O'Riley.all this whining for the simpler time makes me wonder,..Do they realize that that time never existed?
All it takes is a History Book,well an accurate one. there has never been a time that was simpler,and uncomplicated.it just seemed that way because they/we were children.
Life has always been complicated. the time that Bill&Beck seem to like is the fifties.mmmmmm polio,and small pox.not to mention the Draconian way that mental illness was treated.Misogyny was the norm,racism was rampant.and lets not forget that perennial shit stain Senator Joe McCarthy,and his House UN-American Activities Committee
oh yeah! THAT WAS SO UNCOMPLICATED! so many people were ruined by the simplicity.
The only reason that christian Conservatives want to "Return "to those days is that it reinforces their backwards beliefs.Paramount on the C.C agenda...gay rights.back in the 1950,s Homosexuality was considered a mental illness and the Gays could be locked up.that is why we lost the Genius "Alan Mathison Turing mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was influential in the development of computer science and providing a formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, playing a significant role in the creation of the modern computer."(Quote from wickipedia)you see Turing was gay,and of course in the closet.when it was about to come out that he was Gay he chose to commit suicide rather than have his whole life savagely ruined right in front of his eyes. how much did society lose from this?
do we really want to go back to this?