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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Right, a past that was A-OK as long as you weren't black (needless to say, that keeps going), Native American, gay, FEMALE, etc. A bullshit version of that past, all nifty and dandy, was Reagan's ticket to political stardom - I don't know whether he was the first to come up with the line "government isn't the solution; it's the problem", but fucking hell did that stupidity get into the marrow of millions of Unitedstateseans, generations of them now.
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The joke of this is that the period in which America was supposedly at its peak* -the 1950s-was one that most of its adherents either experienced through the eyes of a child or they weren't around at all. The average Trumpet's vision of the 50s is something like this (skip to 0:43):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttQIkTEDRo
*if you ask me, the US' peak was the moon landing, and it's been downhill ever since