the reason it mades sense at the time is because the post-war boom and the "commie threat" meant that government policy was redistributive to buy off working class opposition. "ask not what your country can do for you because we have already brought you all this prosperity so you need to give back"
the fact that it was all built on exploitation of foreigners was not mentioned of course
Even from that lense, though, the response to JFK and to the government should have been, "What, you think you and the government can just take a break from serving its people? Fuck no."
the reason it mades sense at the time is because the post-war boom and the "commie threat" meant that government policy was redistributive to buy off working class opposition. "ask not what your country can do for you because we have already brought you all this prosperity so you need to give back"
the fact that it was all built on exploitation of foreigners was not mentioned of course
Actually sounds like a super fascist quote now that you mention.
Never understood why this asinine quote was ever so popular.
er ah... i think that it -er uh.. had something to do with the accent!
Like why Christopher Walken's "more cowbell" was so funny and quoted for years, despite the skit involving Jimmy Fallon.
Even from that lense, though, the response to JFK and to the government should have been, "What, you think you and the government can just take a break from serving its people? Fuck no."
yeah it only works within the bourgeois liberal frame, just trying to explain the thinking
Well stop it, I don't like thinking bourgeois thoughts :'C