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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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    2. 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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      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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        1. 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. Siggi Hreins‏ @Siggihreins 3 Oct 2018
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          It's crazy adults under 21 can't drink in the states

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        3. Derryl Murphy‏ @derrylm 3 Oct 2018
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          IIRC, individual states could certainly set the age back to lower. 18, even. But the feds threatened to withhold highway dollars from any state that didn’t comply.

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        1. Kayvon Afshari‏ @KayvonAfshari 3 Oct 2018
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          lol everyone has to admit: that's pretty funny

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        1. AnnieW‏ @AnneNewsJunkie 3 Oct 2018
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          Class of '82, a number of kids in my class (primarily popular "good" girls) were members of SADD. They still partied, but they put up signs, spoke at rallies, etc.

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        1. Squirmin Melville‏ @rhetorusrex 3 Oct 2018
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          We had a SADD chapter at my HS (89-93). As a joke, a bunch of upper classmen elected a well known drunk as the president. Ultimate irony - he was later paralyzed in an accident he caused driving drunk.

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        1. Elliot Lake‏ @Elliot_Lake 3 Oct 2018
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          Thanks for reminding me that I'd forgotten all about P.J. O' Roarke...and will again soon. What a creep. Guessing his talkshow appearances were wingnut welfare as his writing was awful too (tho yes less creepy than Judge).

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        1. Sean Morley Dixon  🪕‏ @SeanMorleyDixon 5 Oct 2018
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          I blame PJO for politicizing my older brother beyond reason

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