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We have another Republican philippic on how the dark side of the greater cultural permissiveness of the 1960s and 70s lead to the conservative backlash that brought us President Ronald Reagan and the new right-wing era in America.
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The sexual and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were codified by the 1970s; what began as heady rebellion became the status quo. The consequences were dark. Trends that seemed novel during the Summer of Love in 1967 now came off as tawdry. The country had spiraled downward from the debauchery of Woodstock to the decadence of disco, from “harmless grass” to dangerous cocaine, from sexual freedom to the same old licentiousness. Love must have been “free,” because it seemed like everyone was giving it away. The aftermath was an American landscape littered with ruin marriages, broken homes, and drug addiction. The social fabric was in tatters.
-- Craig Shirley, “Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America”
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Yeah, nothing like tremendous tax cuts for the rich and the abrogation of corporate social responsibility to restore the wholesomeness of the country.
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The sexual and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were codified by the 1970s; what began as heady rebellion became the status quo. The consequences were dark. Trends that seemed novel during the Summer of Love in 1967 now came off as tawdry. The country had spiraled downward from the debauchery of Woodstock to the decadence of disco, from “harmless grass” to dangerous cocaine, from sexual freedom to the same old licentiousness. Love must have been “free,” because it seemed like everyone was giving it away. The aftermath was an American landscape littered with ruin marriages, broken homes, and drug addiction. The social fabric was in tatters.
-- Craig Shirley, “Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America”
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Yeah, nothing like tremendous tax cuts for the rich and the abrogation of corporate social responsibility to restore the wholesomeness of the country.
