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I'm 43. Look at me go.
I was trying to think of some shit going down in the 80s.
All I can think of is Chernobyl melt down in 86.
Not the 80’s, but the early-mid 90’s were rife with evidence of the U.S.’s decline.
Rodney King beatings, the highway of death in Iraq, the rise to prominence of Fox News, the mass destruction of the ‘93 floods, all those communities destroyed by the shift to zero tolerance policies, and the deevoludtion of national political debate into contentious identity politics by 24-hour news channels.
In the 80’s you had Bhopal and 3-mile island, too. And the savings and loan crisis, I think.
Challenger explosion, televised straight into so many classrooms
Wow. Looking into this for a few minutes I now realise I've been completely naive to this for most of my life. It's an awful but fascinating disaster.
Mutually Assured Destruction was pretty big at the time. The rot really started to set in with Reagan.