honestly, maybe you didn’t know the country that well.
Domestic rights were being eroded steadily for decades, and the United States makes and has always made some truly awful foreign policy decisions, and it’s not like the US was founded as a paragon of virtue in the first place.
The collapse of the US has rapidly accelerated along its course with trump’s two terms and there’s less chance to redeem themselves with how rapidly he’s tearing everything apart.
It’s a lot harder to change track when you’re screaming down the rails.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Decades? 20 years is decades. 30 years is decades. I dont know america 20-30 years ago?
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I was referring much further back in terms of the steady removal and erosion of domestic US civil rights, but if you don’t recognize the united states anymore from 20 years ago, then it sounds like you didn’t know the country that well 20-30 years ago. there are some very strong parallels occurring between then and now - oil wars, civil rights erosion, election interference, a whole recycle, although the pace has increased under trump
BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Almost 17 years ago, Iowa became the first state to legalize gay marriage. 14 years ago the first states legalize weed. There has been slow but growing acceptance of minorities and large parts of the US since at least the 90s.
I’m not going to sit here and pretend the US has been all sunshine and rainbows, but it hasn’t always been on a crash course. Reagan was a big turning point for US politics that has certainly degraded the overall political landscape of the US since. It’s undeniable that it’s been a hard downhill for about 10 years now, but we had relative domestic peace for many years before that.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Relative domestic peace and international peace, which has no bearing on the fact that the United States has been steadily eroding civil rights and making disastrous domestic anf foreign policy decisions for decades that set it on this course.
the 90s - spiking lobbying and money in politics, the Gulf War, wage theft and stagnation massively increasing, corporate antitrust laws abandoned, huge leap in school shootings, domestic and foreign terror attacks against the US, the supreme court in a hundred different unconstitutional rulings, civil forfeiture statutes doubling, police militarization, qualified immunity for police officers violating civil rights and the Constitution, and the millennium should be capped off with thr decision of bush v. Gore in 2000 that can be seen directly leading to election interferences in US elections 20 years later.
just some of the events directly leading the united States toward what they are experiencing now.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
I dont think you were paying much attention. So… theres that.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
You mean you don’t believe in history?