The mid-’80s were such a freakin’ great time. Vietnam and Carter’s malaise of the ‘70s were history. Reagan was president, John Paul II was pope, Thatcher was running England, Helmut Kohl in West Germany. Conservatives had the upper hand in the West. Business was great. Movies were fun. Music was great. The West was firing on all cylinders. Sure, there was the Cold War with the USSR as referenced in this song, but there was the sense that we were winning.
A lot has gone wrong... very wrong... since then.
Now young people can be gay one day, trans the next - they can be anything they imagine and society mostly celebrates their every changing whim - but they claim to be “oppressed” as they drive their luxury SUV to a demonstration for communism.
It was awesome to see the Soviet empire collapse and for a few years the leftist apologists were confused and on the defensive. But now communists run every institution and basically everyone lives inside their own Berlin Wall.