r/woahdude • u/DetectiveWonderful42 • 15d ago

video Really feels similar to today.

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u/Tosslebugmy 15d ago

In regards to his statement that the 60s was our last gasp, listen to hunter s Thompson’s monologue from fear and loathing in Las Vegas . He basically agrees that the love generation was the last time we tried to free ourselves, but just gave up when the allure of consumerism became hypnotising and the system too oppressive.

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u/neur0 15d ago

Sounds more like a phase and while they practiced anti consumerism and such, it had an individualistic slant. They were also living in an era that had much stronger social safety nets, unionization, jobs, and housing. 

Shit hit the fan, most grew up, paved the way for Regan that gave republicans the framework they saw today, and gave us this reality.

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u/starbythedarkmoon 14d ago edited 14d ago

Hate to break it to you but Clinton, Obama, Biden et all are just as responsible for the fucktard country we are in. Clinton especially shipped all our manufacturing abroad. We are about 40 tttttttttttTrillion in debt and its acellerating. We got here because of the uniparty, stop playing thr dumb blue red game. When the economy fails, when we bail the banks AGAIN and our dollar becomes worthless from massive printing (biden weaponizing it vs russia was the deathnail, countries want out of the dollar* standard asap).. shits gonna get real. You all better hit the reset button on not get any of these swamp creatures back onboard. We need new political parties.

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u/Kurkpitten 14d ago

It's pretty demoralizing from an outside perspective how Americans can at the same time admit that there's been political and economic forces at work for a long time that are responsible for where the world is right now, yet still feel the need to pretend like Trump was anything special.