Around the time that we decided to subjugate the natives, steal their land, and bring in slaves. America has only been the land of the free for rich whites.
Agreed.
America was a major war profiteer off of ww2 And we rode that high for a long time.
America has never been “good” or moral.
America has never been “good” or moral.
Super-important major realisation.
Damn, that’s perfectly correct, but… I was anticipating a bit of white-washing??
Natives, always… please leave us alone?
Reagan through the 90s was the period where things visibly degraded to a joke of what the country once was. 9/11 was at once a direct symptom of our own fuckery over the preceding decades, as well as the final nail in the coffin that pushed large sections of our political landscape towards fascism. It was nascent for a while, but everything became fairly overt in 2016.
Agreed on all points. I would argue it became overt 8 years prior; Obama was not the saint some like to think he was.
Frankly, day one. The idea that America was ever an example to the rest of the world is American revisionism. If you actually look at American history you’ll see the current American administration is very in line with the way we’ve always been.
The US was built on a foundation of genocide and slave ownership. It was never great.
And its foreign policy is destroying countries for profit.
When in time did America gave up trying to be great?
what ? propaganda 101 I guess
In saying that, I’m an Australian I went to America in 1994 thinking that, lived there for a year “went what the actual fuck”, left and never went back.
in a reversal of the question, op, when do you think the US was great and why?
Assuming it was great at some point and people were trying, I would argue at the point when propaganda progressed far enough that enough people thought it was already great. You stop trying when you think you reached the goal. To this day no politician can afford suggesting otherwise unless it’s to make it “great again” I guess.
They actually never were. It was always an empire since 1776, at the hands of the Vatican.
Explain. I’ve got my tinfoil hat ready!
