I have for the better part of 3 hour listening to 80s music and old TV Themes and...

Aug 31, 2011 | US Navy Vet

[US Navy Vet]

...What happened? How did my beloved country get in this shape!?

[NoLibZone]

NEA.

They control the schools.

We lost the culture wars fifty years ago.

Voting will not fix the nation.

[runninglips]

Country music is now popular music. They moved to fill a niche, now that move has left me with a hole in my radio.

[runninglips]

Toby Keith, Alan Jackson and Travis Tritt are the best of the current crop. One is getting old, one is near the downside of popularity, the other has disappeared.

[GreatRoad]

9-11 happened. The muzzies hate our freedoms and they took it away that day. Learning How they were allowed to do that, is the key to getting our country back.

[sjmjax]

Speaking of music...

This is for those who'd like a stroll down memory lane:

Juke Box

[fr_freak]

I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I felt this change coming my whole life. I watched as my peers sucked up every bit of leftist propaganda out there. I had plenty of arguments with other kids and young adults over the years about the latest leftist BS they were buying. The arguments with the Mexicans and blacks were especially nasty and enlightening as to what was coming. I also watched as more and more people claimed to care about the country, but couldn't even tell you who the vice-president was if their lives depended on it. TV and pop music have gotten more and more anti-American until we're actually surprised when a Hollywood product or celebrity isn't a flaming America-hater.

Frankly, anyone who hasn't seen this coming for decades hasn't been paying attention.

[Secret Agent Man]

Magnum, PI for me.

Also Knight Rider.

[muir_redwoods]

Collectively in a hundred million hearts we asked the question,

"What harm is there if we just..."

Now we see what harm there is.

[Not now, Not ever!]

Try bluegrass.

There you go, ever heard Crooked Still?

[TruthHound]

I’m with ya. Screw these inane “smart” phones. Just give me a CB radio, good buddy. No seat belt laws and those cup holders in the console were for BEER! Smoke any frickin’ where ya want for 75¢/pack and a gallon of gas was the same! If you were payin more than $25 bucks a month for cable, you had every premium.

“God and country” was more than a punch line for media hacks.

But neighbors could have honest differences of political opinion without being condescending and snooty about it.

It was morning in America. Now nothing left but mourning.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I haven’t, but I just checked them out on Amazon. Thanks for the tip!

[mkleesma]

I did exactly the same thing.

But when I get down, I look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY

and I know things WILL get better. There’s another Ronald Reagan waiting in the wings...we just have to find him/her.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I remember the old, decent stuff. It wasn’t considered a wet blanket to sing about a non dysfunctional family. Or to cheer your country.

[Ezekiel]

Remember when people used to laugh?

Visit YouTube for Dean Martin Roasts and the Tonight show with Johnny Carson, and you’ll cry alright.

Remember when America had a real president, because Americans voted for a real president? Watch videos of Ronald Reagan and weep.

The modern “progressive” society is built upon a false foundation of lies. It seeks to defile and destroy. Lying is its native tongue.

The offspring of the bondwoman are not heirs with the offspring of the freewoman. Here is the patience and faith of the saints.

[tlb]

1986 was a good year. Yay Cyndi Lauper

Pee-wee’s Playhouse Theme Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcYGOIJhqo

[nerdwithagun]

I like Billy Joel, but the best music of the 80s was metal. I might get flamed for it, but oh well :D

UP THE IRONS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSiIqCpxB8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U__m4N7Ml30&ob=av2n

[BBell]

Thriller came out during my Junior year in High School yet I can honestly say that I never owned it or intentionally listened to it or any other Michael Jackson songs. However, Michael Jackson and his music and lyrics were very tame and nothing compared to the crap now. I would not blame Michael Jackson for any of this crap.

[CT]

Hey, US Navy Vet. I know you have been around longer that they show. We are no longer the young men that stood tow-to-toe at the Washington Monument in 1996. But I think we have found a good mountain to die on. So like the good old veterans we are, strap me to a tree and give me some ammo. LOL

[BBell]

Singing about a non dysfunctional family? Well Papa was a rolling stone.

[doorgunner69]

What happened?

IMNSHO, Gen-X/Y/Z, and their fondness for piercings and other body mutilations, suicide angst grunge rock. And of course overwhelmingly voting for democrats.

Just look at the hollywierd offerings since then, blatantly produced for that age group. No rocket science needed to see the connection.