Opinion: Using Stranger Things to Teach a 12-Year-Old Why Ronald Reagan Sucked

Using the show Stranger Things as entrée to explain the real world of politics, business and nations.

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This led to a discussion about how the CIA got away with this sort of nonsense, so now we have to talk about the United States’ incredible overreaction to the communism. As the nuclear arms race ramped up and popular figures like Phyliss Schlafly, the country lost its goddamn mind.

By then we’d moved on to the episode where Eleven meets her sister in the streets of Chicago. So, the kid asked me why so many of the homeless people in the episode were clearly suffering from mental illness. We’re near the end of Season 3, and the question I just got asked was “Why are the Russians trying to open the gate to the upside down knowing that it is full of demons?”

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