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yeah! let's go back to a time when gas was $12 a gallon. where women had two jobs, making babies and making dinner. where teen pregnancy was at its highest ever. where the government fueled a drug and arms war in South America. where the constant threat of thermonuclear war was banging on the iron dome every single day.
yeah....sounds like a fuckin blast from the past. fuckin rad.
Dont forget the insane racism and misogyny and HOMOPHOBIA on another level. It made news when someone shook a gay guys hand. And the good ol death by AIDS sweeping the nation. The horrific parenting that led to PSA asking if they know where their kids are. The fucking unsolved kidnappings. The escalators that didn't have emergency stops and would choke you to death on your own shoelace.
That's good. Memento mori, carpe diem.
I can't tell if the joke is that now is just back then, but again.
Still better than the current full steam ahead into fascism.
Reagan/Thatcher is the reason why "moderate left wing" nowadays means "liberalism" instead of "social democracy", and even most so called social democrats nowadays act like liberals instead.
And now the christofascists want to have their "Blair Labour" moment on social issues, and I'm afraid they've mostly succeeded that with "Starmer Labour". They want a world, where there's no real alternatives to "hard conservatism" (fascism).
woosh
I think you might have been too young to remember the Regan years.
not nearly as tumultuous as today, but certainly similar in spirit.
I might be old, but I have not forgotten him. He is one of the root causes for what is currently happening in the US.
People tend to filter out the bad memories, like the fact that crackheads were breaking into cars constantly, making it nearly impossible to have a decent car stereo. They started making them that you could pull out, and take into the house. It was common to see cars parked on the street with a sign that said "No Valuables in car."
The crime rates in America in the 80s were through the roof. It wasn't until the earl/mid 90s that they dropped.
In Russia there are some nostalgic memories from the older people, but it's all about education and science, some kind of common dignity (with less personal dignity, probably, but common dignity is important too) and the nation not being openly ruled by thieves, that kind of thing. And total losses in Afghanistan were 15k people, that was a reason for mourning and being terrified, that was talked about everywhere in the news, apparently. While now - you know.
I mean, they remember that kids would just be let out to play, and that they'd go to school and other such places all by themselves. That kids would make knuckles from lead, or make explosive things, or (when in less destructive mood) some kind of perfume and such, radio, all kinds of DIY more often, more serious and more dangerous than now.
They also consider it absolutely basic to accompany your guests to the bus stop or metro station or train station, and only leave when the bus\train leaves, to call your friends regularly and raise panic when they don't answer, to preferably not go out at night, and to never ever say things too open or offensive, because any weirdo at all could hear them, feel offended, follow you and fucking kill you, no cameras everywhere.
And their memories of relative security are not about lower crime anyway, they involve teenage and youth hooligan gangs being literally normal. They would be those who maintained that relative safety. If you were a man, you'd do well to not be outside your district after dark, you could get beaten and robbed just for that.
Judging by what I've read about 80s in the west, all this was kinda similar there. Less depressed probably.