It’s very obvious that amerikkka is circling the drain now, but clearly this didn’t just happen in a vacuum. It must’ve started crumbling at some point… but when?

Some people might say it started after 9/11, others might say it goes back to the Raegan administration. A few might even say it started after losing the Vietnam War, or when they went off the gold standard. Or maybe even earlier…

What do you think? three-heads-thinking

  • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    1492 downhill ever since

    if you want to talk living standards its always been phenomenally unequally distributed, but the 70s is when the small amount of progress toward equality started being reversed.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      1492 downhill ever since

      the objectively correct answer. the genocide on turtle island started then and it’s been worse than that for one reason or another globally since.