What Are The Links Between The '80s Revival Of The Last Half-Decade And The Re-Return Of Neo-Conservatism To Power In The USA During The Same Period?

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If any.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Wishful thinking?

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

(That's not a facetious answer, I just need time to formulate my whole opinion and by the time I have, this thread will have become terribly political and Momus will have started ranting and I will no longer want to elaborate.)

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

on a pop level, i think it has more to do with (emergence of a generation who were young children in the 80's, and therefore remembered as an innocent and carefree time) + (cheap & readily available cocaine) than a political thing, but maybe those are political things

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Jerk in my aerospace classes would wear a 3" "I love Ronald Reagan"-type button

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

High flyers?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

The exhaustion of the American Left?

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

High flyers?

No, worse.

College Republican.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

They are entirely unconnected.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

An aloof sort of optimism and pride in the younger generation stemming from disruptive technological changes occurring in their lifetimes that on some unconscious level makes them feel that fighting older, entrenched conservative powers is an obsolete and poor method of addressing necessary reforms - the possibly incorrect idea that somehow the free market of dollars and ideas, powered by the decisions of smartass upstarts with much disdain for authority, will prevail in the end, no matter what cigar-chomping old pasty asshole tries to stand in the way - A desire to avoid direct confrontation with mom and dad and instead to circumvent authority with cleverness - all taken up either in conscious denial of, or blunt ignorance of, the fact that in the end all technology enslaves those who seek to master it

Thanks to Momus, Sebastien, and everyone else who made this possible. Good night.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

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