How the Counterculture created the Reagan Revolution

[David Horn]

(08-05-2020, 07:23 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: To say that the counter-culture created the Reagan (counter)-revolution is actually quite an insult to those of us in the counter-culture and student movements living in their epicenter in California at the time. CA Candidate and Governor Ronald Reagan was our declared, most-outspoken and explicit enemy.

But then, members of Generation X often hate Boomers so much, that it gives them pleasure to insult them by pinning their own enemy upon them.

Any time the traditionalists are threatened, they react in force.  It happened during and after the Civil Rights and Anti-war marches, and the counter-culture is no exception. So yes, initial success in all these bred the countervailing forces that opposed and suppressed them.  It takes a true wave to overcome that, and it may finally be happening on race.  The other issues will have to wait for future opportunities to excel.