I grew up just a bit later (booze and concerts were an early 90's thing for me, but never Mad Dog). For me the 80's was cold war, all the time. Grade school kids making the sophisticated joke about Andropov dropping off when he died, Day After Tomorrow, Red Dawn, Red Storm Rising, way too much lay knowledge about the differences between an F14, F-15, F111, and an A-10, etc.
My young brain soaked up the optimism of Reagan vs. the malaise of Carter and locked in for a generation until the combination of the values I was raised on and the drift towards religiosity from the GOP started to wake me up. A healthy dose of Bush II's incompetence helped seal the deal.
Can I ask about your age? Did you live the Reagan experience or learn about it later? Just curious.
Learned about it later. I'm 36 now. Was born in '86.
I grew up in the 80's, and where the politics of the 80's should be in my brain I find a blackhole in between the Mad Dog and Journey concerts ;)
Judas Priest concerts for me. :fistbump:
I grew up just a bit later (booze and concerts were an early 90's thing for me, but never Mad Dog). For me the 80's was cold war, all the time. Grade school kids making the sophisticated joke about Andropov dropping off when he died, Day After Tomorrow, Red Dawn, Red Storm Rising, way too much lay knowledge about the differences between an F14, F-15, F111, and an A-10, etc.
My young brain soaked up the optimism of Reagan vs. the malaise of Carter and locked in for a generation until the combination of the values I was raised on and the drift towards religiosity from the GOP started to wake me up. A healthy dose of Bush II's incompetence helped seal the deal.