And the media plays it up, and eats it up, themselves. Gross.
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All of the (sometimes mandatory) hedonism. None of the ideals.
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I wish!! I grew up in bland suburbia and was still taking the school bus as a senior in HS.
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Which bland suburb? Philly?
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No, north of IBM's then-massive Westchester County, NY, campus.
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And didn't you take the train to The City wearing a long dark jacket pretending to be cool?
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Also wanted to go see U2 at Yankee Stadium(1988 maybe). No to that too.
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Homophobia and sexism in the 1980s was pretty much off the charts. Sucked to grow up with it.
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@atrios has written about that and I realize it now but was too obtuse at the time.@PhilPerspective2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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It was part of the conservative push back against the counterculture of the 1960s.
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Facilitated by Reagan's treatment of AIDS. @Atrios @PhilPerspective
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Right. Reagan's bizarre inability to acknowledge AIDS was the capstone to a whole reactionary edifice.
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