We didn't get in this mess over night!
It has taken 7 decades. An answer to the AG article, 'The 1980's on trial'
For the sake of timing I'm 10 years older than the author, and 6 or 7 years younger than the point in history, that created the 70's and 80's. From 1950 till 1973, the youth in America, were forced by political history, to grow up faster, than we had since, probably 1939.
It was called the draft. The 1939 draft, was to save the world, the 1950 draft, was called the draft for the cold war, and the plan for the military-defense industrial complex to continue making big money, from war. Since we didn't have a war, we created the fear of war. The fear was Communism, the modern version of serfdom. You would think a mainstreet guy like me, would woul want to fight against serfdom, because I would be a serf in that form of governing.
The Commies were coming to get us, so let's stop them, on their turf, which was 6,000 miles away. In 1950 began the business of starting wars for the good of........ the military-industrial complex. This political policy has yet to end. There in lie's the present split with the Republican party of Trump MAGA, against the rest of the Republicans and most of the Democrats. Easy money and a good way to thin out the herd.
I spent my entire youth, watching the innovation of color TV, showing the color, blood in red, that comes from war. When I turned 18, I was going to experience that highlight real, of horror, in real time. The last draft lottery number picked, was June 30th, 1973. the year I graduated from high school. I was not a fortunate son, even though the man who wrote that song was.
What happened the last time we stopped the draft? The end of WW2. the same year of the baby boomer era. By 1973, the powers that be, figured out a way stop the herd from reproducing and still take care of the urge. The birth control pill came out in 1969, but this wasn't enough, so we legalized abortion in 1973, and one more policy, which influenced, this era was the civil rights act, which kicked the African American Father out of his families house.
So now we could party like it was 1945, without, life changing consequences, like babies. You would have to had been there.
Remember the 'Summer of Love'? It lasted 2 months. Debauchery, as fun as it can be has a short, historical leash. By 1980, our country was a mess. Thus the Reagan era began, bringing peace, sort of, new strains of sexually transmitted disease's and work.
President Reagan, found a way to satisfy the military-industrial complex, by created a powerful military, that could stop any country with thoughts of world domination, without killing our people. This is another MAGA policy, we lost when the 2020, election was stolen. The elites figured out new ways to beat the capitalist system, to make easy money. I refer to this as , "Money for nothing, and the chicks for free" era.
That was the 80's.
Young people, no longer had a filter, both parent's, if you had 2, were to busy to care.
The political system had always been taking advantage of a government, dependent on individual moral virtue, to work. That got thrown out the window, the leaders got richer,
and the country got more in debt.
Yea, there is more, but when you ask,
'How did we get here'?
A post script: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and Anthony Fauci were in Congress and the CDC, for 60 years of this
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