Its about The US’s 50′s transitioning into the 60′s and a sense of security failing….This follows through to the 70′s and early 80′s Reagan gets it all back.
Its about bootstraps, no welfare, and whiteness in the sense that you leave everyone to defend for themselves…cos..like bootstraps n all..pull em…
So the generation thats at fault here is the Baby Boomers, who are all on their way out…But have indoctrinated a bunch of morons into the cause….
So its now about a few people pulling an old line , a security blanket based in what is now a fantasy land of 50′s dioramas and nuclear bomb shelters, clouded in ridiculousness into the next century.
“It may explain why, as disturbed as I might have been by Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, as unconvinced as I might have been by his John Wayne, Father Knows Best pose, his policy by anecdote, and his gratuitous assaults on the poor, I understood his appeal. It was the same appeal that the military bases back in Hawaii had always held for me as a young boy, with their tidy streets and well-oiled machinery, the crisp uniforms and crisper salutes. It was related to the pleasure I still get from watching a well-played baseball game, or my wife gets from watching reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show. Reagan spoke to America’s longing for order, our need to believe that we are not simply subject to blind, impersonal forces but that we can shape our individual and collective destinies, so long as we rediscover the traditional virtues of hard work, patriotism, personal responsibility, optimism, and faith.”
Barak Obama – the Audacity of Hope
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