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.