Like, the share of female, emotional, hysterical types demanding that we clamp down on degrees of freedom in the name of the poor wittle wulnerables at this stage of the cultural cycle is inconvenient, but peak-to-peak compared against the 80s it's NOTHING and several things are different this time that suggest it won't line up as well

Obviously that playing to that empowered the Reagan GOP's rise while now it's causing tensions within a Dem coalition barely holding on

Really, the "inspires an angry uprising targeting school boards and going from there" role this cycle is already full

That the move of college-educated mothers into the workplace means that a nesting boom isn't experienced to the business world as new sales opportunities (Toys R Us!) but rather workplace friction (keep in mind this Supreme Court will likely shatter antidiscrimination law)

The family values nesters of the 80s could be rewarded for throwing in with The Man with the new white flight suburbs, that's no longer an option

Now a thing I worry about is better-capitalized families taking over the back-to-the-city thing, but I think you're going to see backpressure from urban school system dynamics – NYC can afford to back off 2-tiered public education gifted programs because they no longer need merely professional taxpayers who could move to "favored quarter" suburban school districts but not cover private tuition. I know a few years ago someone who tried to reorient DC public schools to student achievement was turfed by people who appreciated them as a black public jobs program. Here in Portland a challenge is going to be absenteeism – like I say, The Simpsons' Springfield was really Portland and the thing was it was compact enough El Barto could find other things to do skipping school. And ramping up truant enforcement would mean empowering and encouraging cops to confront (disproportionately minority, especially with the numbers after this Zoom year) teens on the street, which seems like a heavy political ask under these conditions.