Wasn’t it though? :-) everybody was so proud to be an American. Well not everybody but most.
And I don’t mean this to come out the wrong way but it wasn’t a criminal offense to have just a certain race or ethnicity in a movie or sitcom and without a gay couple or a transexual in it.
And I think there are a number of very good Black and Hispanic actors, I just don’t like the idea that they have to be in every show now.
But I am going off track. Time for a nap :-)
I guess it is ironic that there are more black performers defending our point of view with then why performers lately. Denzel Washington and Kanye West and that wacky comedian come to mine
It was great to live through the 80’s! I remember the awful 70’s, economic malaise, everyone hated the cops and the military and always blamed America for everything, gas lines, protests, hippies. I remember by Dad yelling at Cronkite and Carter and turning the channel muttering communist scum! Then Reagan showed up and then was elected, I remember being in Knoxville Tennessee with my siblings and Mom that evening preparing to drive home after an afternoon of early Christmas shopping and listening to the returns on that old Chevy station wagon radio and them announcing Reagan had won and Mom was quite happy.
Then he took office, and the hostages came home. I remember watching the news when the Soviet ambassador showed up at the White House and tried to use the special private entrance and was turned away, my Dads response was YES! He survived the assassination attempt and whenever the Democrats and the media were in opposition to him he would make a speech, lay it out to the people in plain English and they would start the phone calls.
You knew the adults were back in charge and it was fun to be proud of the flag, military, cops and country and you could enjoy being a kid! I was a teenager when he took office and most every kid in high school liked Reagan with the exception of a few malcontents and of course teachers the commies in disguise.