Beet
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« on: July 02, 2013, 09:12:22 PM » |
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Because baby boomers have this idolized image of him as the emblem of their childhood -- before it all went wrong in the late Sixties. America was powerful, consensus-driven, and he was vaguely liberal and vaguely glamorous. Michael Moore, for instance, likes to hearken back to 1961 at the beginning of one of his movies. It shows a picture of him as a kid riding a tricycle. Innocence, etc. (it's ironic how the extended Fifties is considered a 'time of innocence' in the U.S. even though the holocaust had already happened) It's kind of like some older Millennials and Bill Clinton except a lot more extreme.
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