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The radicalism of the 70's, brought about Thatcher and Reagan, sadly, IMO, it will never happen again.
1 posted on 02/05/2024 3:40:25 PM PST by DallasBiff
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Because it’s another slap in the face to boomers.


2 posted on 02/05/2024 3:41:41 PM PST by caver
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To: DallasBiff

Because it mostly sucked.


3 posted on 02/05/2024 3:42:29 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: DallasBiff

Disco?


4 posted on 02/05/2024 3:43:25 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: DallasBiff

I got laughed at when I pointed out that there were people nostalgic for the 70’s.


6 posted on 02/05/2024 3:44:27 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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“The radicalism of the 70’s, brought about Thatcher and Reagan, sadly, IMO, it will never happen again.”

As much as I love these two, the damage was done earlier, and they simply could not fight off the horrific people that had embedded themselves in government and non-government power-positions.


7 posted on 02/05/2024 3:45:02 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: DallasBiff

The Footy was much better. Liverpool had some great teams. And Cloughie at Nottingham Forest.


9 posted on 02/05/2024 3:46:18 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

I got yo go to Studio 54 once;-)


10 posted on 02/05/2024 3:46:47 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: DallasBiff

How? Two words: Jimmy Carter.


11 posted on 02/05/2024 3:47:16 PM PST by xoxox
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I personally had a good time growing up in the 70s. Maybe it’s because I lived in a small town.


15 posted on 02/05/2024 3:48:54 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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Because it was awful. For us, the disgraceful abandonment of our allies in South Vietnam and Iran (thanks, Democrats), a coup d'etat of an elected president (thanks again, MF's), Carter/hyper-inflation and interest rates/"malaise" (need I repeat myself?). To top it off, several of the most bitter cold winters on record. The 80's were like a burst of warm sunshine.
21 posted on 02/05/2024 3:52:51 PM PST by katana
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Britain blew it when the Tories chose Ted Heath over Enoch Powell.


22 posted on 02/05/2024 3:53:53 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It wasn't all bad...


24 posted on 02/05/2024 3:55:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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We misremember the 1960s as the decade of the Mini, which was actually invented in 1959 …
Wow, so much for the IQ level at the BBC.

The Mini (originally sold as the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor) might have originally been sold in 1959 (prototype dates to 1957), but that year saw only 8,000 cars bought; sales were much greater during the 1960s decade.
25 posted on 02/05/2024 3:55:28 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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This is why the '70s were bad.

26 posted on 02/05/2024 3:56:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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The 60s ran from about 1963 -1973, the 70s seemed bland and the left was taking a wrecking ball to America.

Reagan had been on steady march to the presidency since at least 1964.

Reagan became California Governor in 1967 ran for presidential nomination in 1968, California Governor again in 1970, just barely missed the GOP nomination after midnite in 1976, and took the presidency in 1980, the 1984 election was the first that all the boomers were old enough to vote for president.


27 posted on 02/05/2024 3:56:57 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Because they upped the amount you had to pay into SS from three to twelve and a half percent?

Because interest rates were 20%?

Because we had gas lines, price controls and a Hate America First President?

28 posted on 02/05/2024 3:57:30 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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Why was it a bad decade? I blame these people. And the clothes they wore.

 

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29 posted on 02/05/2024 3:57:51 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Jimmah Cawtuh, gas lines, disco, and shag carpeting.


33 posted on 02/05/2024 4:01:22 PM PST by bigbob
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Wasn’t a better decade to grow up in. Really.


34 posted on 02/05/2024 4:01:39 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: DallasBiff

The song You Light Up My Life. There’s one reason.


35 posted on 02/05/2024 4:03:23 PM PST by cotton1706
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