Pretty much all those Karen compilations are Gen X-aged people, who should fucking know better but clearly don't. Millennials are on watch too, but we don't have enough wealth to be as shitty. Zoomers are going to save us all.
Pretty much all those Karen compilations are Gen X-aged people, who should fucking know better but clearly don't. Millennials are on watch too, but we don't have enough wealth to be as shitty. Zoomers are going to save us all.
To be fair, the Reagan thing had already happened and there really wasn't much political discourse within the country back then. Elites (both in terms of wealth and random folks within the broader intellegencia) were essentially completely unified in how they felt the country should move forward during the Bush 41 and Clinton years.
The Iraq war, the internet (and the social change that happened because of it, especially as it relates to religion), and the longer term effects of neoliberalism left the intellegencia totally unsure how to move forward.
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Celebrity populism played a role in the popularity of Reagan just as it does with Trump.
But he was popular because deregulating the economy creates a ton of jobs and opportunity in the short term. It's just that all that wealth is captured now and no one can ever catch up.