While not some grand utopia, by any stretch, the US before 1980 was a paradise of...just..."America, F**K YEAH!!!!"
You graduated from high school, congratulations, you're qualified for this job you can work at for 40 years, afford a spouse, a house, 3 kids, a car, and 4 weeks off for vacation for a year. Oh, you went to college? Here, have more money, and put people on the moon.
There is a TikTok out there that summarizes this all very well. The "greatest" generation grew up in a world where they survived hell. They were born into the embers of a house fire of WWI, watched their house burn down again in the Great Depression, watched the entire forest burn in a forest fire of WWII and then did the dog meme...this is fine.
So they scotched guarded everything, fire proofed everything, made sure there was no way that their house was ever burning down again, made sure their kids' houses never burned down again, and made sure the forest would never burn again. And then they told their kids that, in a moment, the world could burn down if they weren't careful.
And those kids ran with it; paradise could burn to the ground unless they worked really hard to make sure it didn't...in an environment where that literally could no longer happen. And their takeaway was, "why do we need to keep the world from burning down with all of these things that keep the world from burning down if it didn't burn down while we were just, you know, being awesome. Murica."
And so when Ronald Fucking Reagan came along and tore it all down, all of it, everything that kept it from burning down, well, of course it did. But fire and rust are simply the process of oxidation in another material, one is just faster than another.
So, no, there was no great depression 2 or third world war (just wait...coming soon, thank you conservatives everywhere), but a 1 bed 1 bath house is $350k, in a market that pays a median $15 an hour, and idiot bootlickers are proud of working 60-70 hours a week to "support" their family...on a dual income.
You will never be less angry at Ronald Reagan than you are the moment you learn more about him. Everything he did or was as a politician was just cartoonishly evil.
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