Could be.
But mandatory draft registration was reintroduced in 1980, though the draft itself wasn't, so this could be a reference to that.
On the whole, 80s radicalism was pretty feeble and inauthentic. It was almost a 60s reenactor movement, copying what had come before, rather than starting anything new.
“. . .80s radicalism was pretty feeble and inauthentic.”
So was a lot of 60’s radicalism. I went to college in 1969. I remember guys discussing the chicks they were going to pick up at the sit-in. I remember the “leaders” of the movement working on their tans by the pool during the spring after Kent State—going to class was optional that spring.
But now, they run our country. They can make $200,000 a year, impose all their stupid radical ideas on less enlightened people, call themselves public servants, and have sex with whatever they want and demand that everyone else celebrate.
But, they’re the ones amongst the boomers who calculated best. They understood early on that we were NOT a meritocracy but a crony capitalist state heading toward fascism. They were the first ones on the bandwagon and have done the best for themselves and their children.
Unless God counts somewhere in the equation. They they, like many of us, are in deep, deep trouble.