I’m not one of these “everything was better back in my day” people.

But I cannot properly describe how much different the 80s were than what we have today. It was fun and happy and patriotic and ridiculous and over the top. It was wonderful.

And Hulk Hogan was a big part of it. pic.twitter.com/Ha0LvyYJTi

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) July 24, 2025

I miss what this country used to be. And the sad truth is my guess is that it will never be this way again. The push toward woke ideology, the takeover of our lives to social media, and the constant negativity and anxiousness of the majority of the populace basically assures that we will never reach these heights again in America.

We had it for a moment in time after 9/11 until an endless war / "regime change" and politics got in the way. Unfortunately, might take something similar to get us back there.

The 80s and 90s were friggin' awesome. Best time ever to be young. I feel for the kids today.

Daddy-O5 said:

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We had it for a moment in time after 9/11 until an endless war / "regime change" and politics got in the way. Unfortunately, might take something similar to get us back there.

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That will never happen as long as we have the stark division in ideology that exists now. If 9/11 happened tomorrow, liberals would just immediately blame Trump and republicans. It would be instant and all consuming. There is no topic that exists that they wouldn't use as a weapon against those they don't like.

Add in an entire generation of Americans that's been raised to hate the country and feel shame for being born here. There will never been anything that unifies the country again.

The "unity" of 9/11 lasted about a month, if that.

Kids these days just have no idea how great the 80's were. We even had proper jean commercials without some sort of ridiculous outrage about it.

Whatever you do, do not—and I repeat, do not—share Brooke Shields’ Calvin Klein Jeans ad from 1980. It might just send liberals over the edge. pic.twitter.com/b3aqZNyDaW

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) July 29, 2025

It's almost like the destabilization playbook we've run so many times against other countries is being used against us. Weird.

The worst thing that happened to the United States was the fall of the Soviet Union.

Before that, there was a clear difference in ideology, and it helped keep us united.

Capitalism vs. Communism
Freedom vs. Totalitarianism
Elected Government vs. a government everyone knew was a farce despite having "elections."
Equal Opportunity vs. Equal Outcome
Religious Freedom vs. State Imposed Atheism
Neighbors Helped Neighbors vs. Neighbors Spied on Neighbors

Sure we had our communists and socialists since the early 1900s, but they were a small minority and dismissed by pretty much everyone. Even in their heyday in the early parts of the 20th century they were never more than a few precent of the population.

People could get along, despite politics. Most just wanted what was best for the country, although how to achieve that was where opinions diverged.

Moral issues were handled mostly on the family, local, and state level (abortion was the outlier) and people pretty much didn't care how others lived because everyone kept their personal lives personal.

Sure our nation wasn't perfect, because it is composed of imperfect people, but it has been the best nation on this Earth since it was founded. Whether we can keep it going is the unanswered question.

If you ask me it all started to go downhill with Obama and the racial divide he created (and not because he was black). But a lot of the blame is also on the internet and social media as a whole as well. The two together set us on this path of hatred we are on now.

javajaws said:

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If you ask me it all started to go downhill with Obama and the racial divide he created (and not because he was black). But a lot of the blame is also on the internet and social media as a whole as well. The two together set us on this path of hatred we are on now.

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Idk, things were already in the toilet in a lot of ways by the time we got Obama. Liberals spent the previous decade telling us every day that Bush was Hitler

multi-culturalism is very, very difficult to pull off

some would say impossible

I miss it. I grew up during one of the best times to live in this country.

As far as human history goes, no one had it better than I did - and I was dirt poor growing up!

I was truly blessed.

The big gov socialist leaning liberal democrats of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s were usurped. Assuming near complete control of government and 8 years of activist judiciary nominees being confirmed along with massive federal regulatory expansion and they have abandoned true liberalism in favor of mandates, debanking, deplatforming, censoring, cancelling, etc. Socialist leaning has become full on marxist revolution. American pride has become self-hatred. American exceptionalism has become shame. Intentional destruction, intentional division, and intentional invasion - all marxist tactics - have become the name of the game where they used to have good intentions. The half of us that still make enough to have to pay taxes have become the enemies- the fascists/racists/extremists/domestic terrorists. The party that used to hate big business is now the party of monopolies, oligopolies and globalist conglomerates. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Thanks, Obama.

Obama

Obama coupled with COVID broke this country.

What Jesse Kelley was referring to in his tweet about Hulk Hogan was really the shared culture we enjoyed.

The one-two punch of advanced technology and mass immigration has effectively ended that sense of "sameness." We don't share social norms, values or cultural touchstones any more. We don't even share a common language!

During the 80's, modern liberalism was in its infancy, and as Rapier said, we had a common enemy in communism. The WW2 generation was in its prime and running things. They understood full well the dangers it posed to the world.

Then Clinton got elected and the real slide started. Bush enraged the left and the counter culture leftist 60s crowd go motivated and started winning elections.

Obama put it on steroids. Besides his constant race baiting, he sowed the seeds of fear, envy, and blame to the next generation and here we are. He was the key link in the fundamental transformation of America that the Marxists have been craving for over a hundred years.

Now we have the next iteration with AOC and her squad types. Each successive generation moves farther left, mostly out of ignorance and the constant drumbeat and affirmation from left leaning social media.

This is the first time in my adult life where I felt like there was a little hope. Trump is not just holding the line, he's taking ground back, and in doing so he is emboldening rational people to do the same. They aren't afraid or intimidated by the left anymore. Their tactics and strategies are being exposed for all to see. A lot of patriotic Americans are saying enough is enough, and aren't buying into the gaslighting and lies of the left.

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The 80s and 90s were friggin' awesome. Best time ever to be young. I feel for the kids today.

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The 60s and 70s were pretty awesome, too. Kids these days are being taught to be afraid of so many of the things we just took for granted like walking to school and playing in the neighborhood.

Agree that the late 70s through mid 90s were great. What happened? Obama was successful in fundamentally transforming the US. Worst president ever, and not even close.

Back then the village idiot stayed in their own village. Now they band together on the internet to reinforce their idiocy.