Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?

logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Naw this is ridiculous.

  Everyone knows it started in the 70s and we’ve been headed down hill ever since. Reality is this country died 60 years ago. It’s just taking awhile for the wheels to fall off the bus.

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  • logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What?

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not OP; but probably referring to Nixon normalising relations with China; or maybe negotiating with the Viet Cong to prolong the Vietnam War so that he could be elected?; or the whole Watergate fiasco which directly lead to the creation of Fox News… I mean, that man is responsible for a lot of our modern ails.

      But if it’s the former, it directly lead to outsourcing production overseas where labour was cheapest, resulting in the gutting of American manufacturing and the entire middle class that depended on it.

      I more personally believe that Nixon severely injured the US, but it was Reagan who shot the killing bullet. But that’s honestly a debate for another time.

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      • logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s a bit like trying to figure out who invented the car but I would tend to agree it’s when people turned their power over to daddy Regan and went shopping after Carter treated them like adults…

        Still don’t get what OP meant vis-à-vis Russia and Europe.

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kenedy was the coup.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What democracy? The US never had democracy

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