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and that's all right

yeah that's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello, welcome to factually. I'm Adam Conover.

And look, this is our last podcast before the election here in the US and so I

think that rather than try to do a topic that's directly about electoral politics or voting like the one we had last week

that my incredible interview with Darrell Atkinson, one of my personal heroes, civil

rights attorney, go listen to it if you haven't heard it already, really incredible

guy. I think I'd rather take a look back at the

last half decade or so of American politics. A half century which has really been defined by the rise of the conservative movement in America.

You know, I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

I was mostly conscious for the 90s. The 80s, you know, part of it I was a baby so I don't remember that part as well, but in the 90s, I didn't realize this until later, but that was the golden age of baby boomer nostalgia porn wasn't it? I mean I

literally had a unit on Forrest Gump in high school. They made us watch the movie because it was like, look at this

incredible historical document. Another teacher made us do a whole unit where we

dissected every line of Billy Joel's we didn't start the fire and then we would have to go home and ask our parents what the lines were about because it was a song about their goddamn childhoods.

This stuff was rammed down our throats. Like it felt like for instance Woodstock was just

constantly happening like a day didn't go by where there wasn't something on TV

or some old person saying you know know Woodstock, that was incredible.

Peace and love, baby.

We changed the world.

And here's the thing.

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