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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2018

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      1. There's some forgotten social history here. Kids drank a lot in the 1970s and 1980s but then there was a push back. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) created in 1980, Drug Abuse & Resistance Education (DARE) in 1983. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1047569138472968192 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2018

      2. People tend to dismiss or ignore groups like MADD because, let's face it, moms telling kids to behave is seen as uncool. But in fact MADD really changed stuff, not just laws (drinking age up) but also social norms around drinking.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2018

          3. There was also a pushback against the pushback. P.J. O'Rourke (who can be described as the writer Mark Judge aspired to be) joked about creating group called Drunks Against Mad Mothers (DAMM) -- which some of his fans did.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2018

          4. The O'Roarke stuff should remind us that 1980s were key point where a certain type of Frat Boy achieved (in the Marxist sense) a class consciousness. The Frat Boy stood for white male liberty against prissy moms as well as feminists & POC.

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        2. Kirk‏ @Kirk__K 3 Oct 2018
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          As the Kavanaugh hearings are reminding us, states were raising legal drinking age to 21 during the 80's. I imagine that had a FAR greater impact on teenage drinking than MADD.

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        3. Larry Yudelson‏ @yudel 3 Oct 2018
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          MADD led the push to raise drinking age and penalize drivers who refused a breath or blood test.

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        1. 4thCornerGirl‏ @4thcornergal 3 Oct 2018
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          Good reminders. Also helps us parents of teenagers feel a bit better.

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        1. Kelly Occhiuzzo  🗯‏ @KellyOcchiuzzo 3 Oct 2018
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          Yep, I was there. They definitely did. Another factor to the decline, DUI’s. No one wanted one of those. They were the biggest pains in the ass at the time.

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        1. Tamar Klaiman, PhD, MPH‏ @tklaiman 3 Oct 2018
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          Turns out moms get shit done. 🤷‍♀️

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        1. Señorita Rocío‏ @neogaia 3 Oct 2018
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          MADD went too far and I'm not a fan but props where props are due in lessening drunk driving.

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        1. Eλf Sternberg‏ @elfsternberg 3 Oct 2018
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          I'm disappointed in both MADD and DARE. DARE because it's still funded, twenty years after empirical evidence showed that it did more harm than good. MADD because it got eaten by the Iron Law of Bureaucracy; having actually met its goals, rather than celebrate it doubled down.

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