America's current situation is just chickens from the '80s coming home to roost

[Burma Jones]

82. I grew up in the DC Suburbs, went off to College in 1978, came back in 1983

I went to College in the Midwest.

When I left Montgomery County, MD in 1978, the Population was about 570,000.

By 1990, the population had grown to about 760,000.

Now, we're about 1.1 Million

This was repeated throughout the DC Metro Area and continued through the 90s up to this day.

What Uncle Ronnie brought to the US was an enormous transfer of wealth from the rest of the Country to the Capitol.


The 80s ushered in the idea that Fuck You is a perfectly reasonable response to your fellow citizens, in fact, probably better for them, it'll help them pull themselves up by their own bootstraps..

The Fairness Doctrine was abolished in 1987.

The 80s began the organized push back against the idea that the US is for all its citizens - it took the right wing some time to organize themselves and start to normalize the idea that we are not all in this together.


The 70s was Anita Bryant and Pat Boone
The 80s was Reagan and Falwell