Political conservative commentators get hung up on dishwashers as the answer to everything that's declined since the 1950s, because "regulations screwed them up

Political conservative commentators get hung up on dishwashers as the answer to everything that's declined since the 1950s, because "regulations screwed them up". The technology changed, but many people's usage of them hasn't, because they used to be simple but inefficient devices that overworked to accomplish a specific task (as described in totally self-unaware and _excrutiating_ detail here) but are now more complex devices that require more than zero thought or effort.