My dad said all hell was breaking loose in the early 70s and lots of people getting killed and inflation and he said there are a lot of similarities. Wondering if this period is comparable to what is taking place now in America? Is Jimmy Carter like Joe Biden?
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The Boomers reached full adulthood and became more conservative, traditional, and interested in material comfort and wealth. The 1976 bicentennial, Ronald Reagan, and Americana like “Happy Days”, “Rocky”, “Superman”, and the escalation of the Cold War (and the 1980 US hockey team) led to a nostalgia for simpler times, and a popularization of patriotic themes.
It is hard to say what will turn the tide now. The population was still 85% white in the 1970s. The election of Trump, and the MAGA movement felt very similar to that ‘76-‘80 period. My feeling is that eventually, we will throw off this medical tyranny, and with it the whole Marxist CRT control-freak tyranny. We will rejoice in our freedoms, and laugh in the face of those who try to bend us with racist epithets.
CNNDBALLS --- yea some cool things in the 70s and now we have WAP as a song for 12 years olds. Were the college campuses as liberal as they are now? Free speech? Seems like an interesting time though and not really represented much in text books when I was in High School.
College students pretty liberal, but the professors were not, or didn’t bring it to class. The middle-class State U I went to was very neutral, politically. You would always see a few drippy hippies with poster boards on the quad with the outrage du jour (Appartheid, AIDS, abortion rights, etc.) but they weren’t allowed to have loud speakers or make a ruckus. They were easily ignored.
Debate was taken seriously. You were expected to know your facts inside and out, have examples at hand, know the common logical fallacies, and be able to make a reasoned and persuasive argument without resorting to ad hominem attacks. Most of the time, these sessions had an sense of humor to them — humor being highly persuasive — and a grudging admiration for your opponent’s debate skills. No matter your position, you were disabused of extremism very quickly; it’s just impossible to defend with facts and reason.
Oh, and the girls were hotter and friendlier, and the music and cars were way better than anything in the last 30 years.