The US completed its transformation into a corporatist mockery of democracy sometime between the 50s and 80s, this is just the coda to the systemic failure experienced then.
Not that it was ever as good as the propaganda made it out to be, but their government had at least some fealty to ideals beyond money and power. The worst thing to ever happen to America was becoming a superpower and assuming that this new role was divinely inspired destiny: it never takes long for hubris to bring on illusions of infallibility and virtue.
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Last edited by jammies; 05-25-2022 at 02:40 PM.
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