The '80s and '90s: I can't help but feeling jaded, when all I see is overrated. Perhaps for the first time, in the 1980s and '90s, we started to see the full effects of having at least two decades of mediocre to abysmal Presidents. Most abysmal of all, as I see it, were the Know-Nothing and Do-Nothing Presidents, Reagan and Bush.
The '80s and '90s were when America started to decline in many areas at once. The '80s and '90s had more than enough mediocrity to fill a full set of encyclopedias. We had so-called Born-Again religious lobotomites, crooked TV preachers, eve of destruction, liposuction, Dance Music, 20eth century 'pump' sneakers at 25th century prices (which some people have actually killed for), Cabbage Patch dolls, Dan Quayle, Yugo cars, and on and on and on. Also, it's bad enough that Synchronized Swimming is considered a sport, but has now become an 'Olympic Event'. (to be cont'd)
[Originally published in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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