A lot of you compare 2025 to 1984 and wonder why life was so much better "back then." What you're doing is comparing America at its BEST to America today. OF COURSE THINGS ARE BAD TODAY IN COMPARISON. The late 80s were the best they've ever been!
The early 1980s were terrible. Interest rates were high. Wages were low. Jobs were few and far between. The 1970s were pretty bad too, but not quite as bad as the early 1980s.
Ronald Reagan was elected in a landslide in 1980. The first four years of his presidency did NOT go according to plan. Imagine all the stonewalling and backstabbing that the federal government did to Trump times 100, and you have the Reagan presidency. Not even the republicans had his back.
Then everything changed in 1984. That was the year that interest rates fell and people could find jobs and started getting pay raises again. If there ever was a golden age in US history, 1984-1994 is probably it. At that time the buying power of the average man was way better than it had ever been. Homes were affordable. Even black people could get a job and get a house. Reagan was re-elected with all but one state (and DC) in 1984 and he presided like a president who didn't care about the federal government anymore. He used the "bully pulpit" to speak over and against the federal government.
George HW Bush betrayed us. He ran in 1988 "read my lips no new taxes" and what did he do? He created new taxes. Bill Clinton won in a three-way between Bush and some other guy from Texas who was pissed with the deep state, Bushes, republicans, democrats and everything else. Bill Clinton promised to be Reagan 2.0 but he ended up being worse.
In 1994 we had the "Republican Revolution". For the first time in everyone's memory, republicans actually controlled congress and forced Bill Clinton to become fiscally conservative. They also ended welfare and food stamps and all sorts of really cool things. They also burned the IRS to the ground. It was great. But hey, Republicans decided running Bob Dole against Clinton was a wise idea, and so you got 4 more years of treason and blowjobs in the white house.
2000 George W Bush wins despite there being several strong Republican candidates. He ran as Reagan 2.0 but ended up being Bush 2.0. Despite having complete control of the house and the senate the republicans literally did NOTHING to roll back the deep state or democrat policies. 2004 Bush is reelected because Ketchup guy lied about Vietnam.
2008 we had Obama beat one of the worst republicans ever to live, the traitor from Arizona. 2012 Mitt Romney (who I am convinced is a deep state asset and pedophile) ran and intentionally lost against a very unpopular Obama.
2016 Trump won and showed the world that republicans and democrats were one and the same, that the deep state was running the show and we were sold to the WEF. 2020 they stole the election and gave it to a guy who pooped his pants at regular intervals and now we are in 2025 with Trump.
If anything, the age we are living in, if even half of what Trump promises is done, is like the late 70s and early 80s. Compare 2025 with that, you'll see life is pretty much the same.
Did the boomers screw us? Yes, but you have as much power as they did in their prime (1980s) to make changes. Are you just going to complain or are you going to actually do something?
The early 1980s were terrible. Interest rates were high. Wages were low. Jobs were few and far between. The 1970s were pretty bad too, but not quite as bad as the early 1980s.
Ronald Reagan was elected in a landslide in 1980. The first four years of his presidency did NOT go according to plan. Imagine all the stonewalling and backstabbing that the federal government did to Trump times 100, and you have the Reagan presidency. Not even the republicans had his back.
Then everything changed in 1984. That was the year that interest rates fell and people could find jobs and started getting pay raises again. If there ever was a golden age in US history, 1984-1994 is probably it. At that time the buying power of the average man was way better than it had ever been. Homes were affordable. Even black people could get a job and get a house. Reagan was re-elected with all but one state (and DC) in 1984 and he presided like a president who didn't care about the federal government anymore. He used the "bully pulpit" to speak over and against the federal government.
George HW Bush betrayed us. He ran in 1988 "read my lips no new taxes" and what did he do? He created new taxes. Bill Clinton won in a three-way between Bush and some other guy from Texas who was pissed with the deep state, Bushes, republicans, democrats and everything else. Bill Clinton promised to be Reagan 2.0 but he ended up being worse.
In 1994 we had the "Republican Revolution". For the first time in everyone's memory, republicans actually controlled congress and forced Bill Clinton to become fiscally conservative. They also ended welfare and food stamps and all sorts of really cool things. They also burned the IRS to the ground. It was great. But hey, Republicans decided running Bob Dole against Clinton was a wise idea, and so you got 4 more years of treason and blowjobs in the white house.
2000 George W Bush wins despite there being several strong Republican candidates. He ran as Reagan 2.0 but ended up being Bush 2.0. Despite having complete control of the house and the senate the republicans literally did NOTHING to roll back the deep state or democrat policies. 2004 Bush is reelected because Ketchup guy lied about Vietnam.
2008 we had Obama beat one of the worst republicans ever to live, the traitor from Arizona. 2012 Mitt Romney (who I am convinced is a deep state asset and pedophile) ran and intentionally lost against a very unpopular Obama.
2016 Trump won and showed the world that republicans and democrats were one and the same, that the deep state was running the show and we were sold to the WEF. 2020 they stole the election and gave it to a guy who pooped his pants at regular intervals and now we are in 2025 with Trump.
If anything, the age we are living in, if even half of what Trump promises is done, is like the late 70s and early 80s. Compare 2025 with that, you'll see life is pretty much the same.
Did the boomers screw us? Yes, but you have as much power as they did in their prime (1980s) to make changes. Are you just going to complain or are you going to actually do something?
We were denied power for the past 40-50 years.
It's up to you Gen-Z guys.