> The early '80s was about buying stocks, lovingly conditioning the leather seats of your bitchin' Honda Prelude, and wearing argyle sweater vests.
Where was this guy? The 80s were about President Reagan and winning the Cold War and emerging from the Carter malaise and the bitter national split of the 60s. The 80s were about optimism and the return of the American Spirit, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
The 70s had those horrific leisure suits.
Once again the elites are "out of the mainstream!" If the Carter years were really so great, he would have gotten more than 9% of the electoral vote and carried more than 6 states in 1980!
Which is exactly why the left and the media want to brand the '80's as the "Decade of Greed", or pretend the decade never happened.
Obviously the writer is a 70s guy not an 80s guy. The 80s - picture me, in "the pit," with LA hardcore punk being played on the stage, and somehow, miraculously, no dental damage, ever! LOL! ...