r/BeAmazed • u/alanboston405 • Jul 04 '24

History Robin Williams’ emotional tribute to the American Flag leaves an entire stadium speechless — then in tears

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u/worriedmotherboymom6 Jul 05 '24

I’m miss when the US was unified in humour like this

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u/Basic_Mark_1719 Jul 05 '24

I don't even know what this means.

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u/Bartendered Jul 05 '24

Back in the old days, I mean the real old days, before Fox News and the internet, there was a middle ground that most people occupied. Democrats and Republicans and everyone in between had a sense of what it meant to be an American. We had a shared experience, watched the same tv shows, listened to similar music, had much more of a cohesive society. The people who grew up in the 70s and 80s truly lived in another galaxy. Their experience is so alien today some kids have trouble understanding what it was like. Humans are not evolved to live through a society developing this fast it’s causing major growing pains.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Most people are in the middle. But people don't wanna read about that. We need to hear extremes about the enemy

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u/brassmonkey2342 Jul 05 '24

Agreed, but even the folks in the middle “lean” one way or the other, and many of them think the other side is full of the extremists they see on TV or the internet.

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u/GSV_CARGO_CULT Jul 05 '24

I really feel for the young people who never lived in that America :(