Posted on 02/05/2024 3:40:25 PM PST by DallasBiff
Of all post-war decades, the 1970s has undoubtedly had the worst press, but the truth is that most ordinary families in 1970s Britain were better off than ever, writes historian Dominic Sandbrook.
The 1950s are symbolised by the television and the washing machine, which transformed the lives of so many families.
We misremember the 1960s as the decade of the Mini, which was actually invented in 1959, the mini-skirt, which surprisingly few women actually wore, and the Pill, which most women never took. We remember the 1980s as the decade of gigantic hair, shoulder-pads, the Filofax and the home computer.
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Frida was so hot.
They appear to be lip-synching.
I have some funny Harry Krusty stories. Take too long to write them.
They did have good food feast as long as you had an escape route before they banged the bongos and their incessant finger tambourines. I could take George Harrison but those Krishnas had one redundant beat like the native American’s and their drum circles.
You’re summarizing a generation of a lot of different people and lifestyles. Where did the boomers hurt you?
LBJ and his war on poverty? The die was cast back with Wilson and Roosevelt ushering in socialism.
Unless a person had money back then, just like today a person couldn’t do anything to change the face of the nation or the drive to moral relativism, the Maoists, Alinksy-ites and Cloward-Piven people.
All generations strive to survive and pass on something good. The Jesus movement was pretty cool. There’s never been a revival as big as that since and never will be.
That is the last hurrah of the 70’s.
As stated, the die was cast long before the boomers.
Foghat.
True, but the foundations of the growth of the government were laid in the70s.
The EPA, Dept of Education, NRC, NOAA, OSHA, OMB
All these departments got started in the 70s.
All with good intensions, but the road to hell is paved with good intensions.
Great picture.
Before he became “Plugs” Biden.
You have to admit, it was effective! (probably because of all the fun made of it) but all these years later, I can still hear Khan’s voice in my mind “Riiiich Corinthian Leatherrrr....”
But still-we blame it on the marketing people!
I give the Peanut Farmer credit for two things, and only one of them, highly conditionally:
1.) His disastrous attempt at rescuing the hostages being held by the Iranians in Operation Eagle Claw did have one key positive thing: It hit the entire American military establishment in the face with the cold reality that they needed to develop infrastructure, processes, and procedures for joint operations. And I do give him a very small modicum of credit for at least trying. Doesn’t bring those eight men back who lost their lives though.
2.) He is closer to the end of his life than the beginning.
And that is it.
Progressing the drug culture
Producing Self parenting offspring
The core of the American hippie movement during the 1960s and ‘70s were twentysomethings.
Overconsumption, underinvestment, and appetite for risk
Cuts to education that will affect other generations.
Lawfare
Put the Clinton’s on the map
I am a boomer, but I didn’t participate.
As Marilyn Quayle succinctly put it:
“But remember, not everyone joined the counterculture, not everyone demonstrated, dropped out, took drugs, joined in the sexual revolution or dodged the draft.”
Wishbone Ash!
Because the 70’s were constant economic turmoil that made it nearly impossible to be in business.
LOL, someone, somewhere, is going to castigate you for invoking the speech of Marilyn Quayle!
The Weather Underground radicals started to take over the Democratic Party in the 1970s, and they also started becoming teachers to indoctrinate the children.
Those seeds finally grew, and it resulted in their boy, Obama, getting into the White House.
“I was 10 to 20 years old that decade. As a teen I didn’t care. I had a job at a local grocery store, small town in Ark., a car, a hot girlfriend, good movies and music.“
Yes indeed! I was right there with you. Those who weren’t will never get it; they’ll believe what they are shown on revisionist television and movies about it.
Good times for us young folks back then. The adults? - you’d have to ask them.
You too? LOL
Shittiest American cars ever, Porche and Bmw and Mercedes were killing it.
Jimmy Carter, interest rates through the roof, gas lines, Viet Nam, Watergate, to name a few.
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