But we had gone a hundred years on a somewhat “normal” path after that, improving slowly but surely. I think the Kennedy assassination put the MIC (and satellite oligarchs) in firm control and it’s only gotten worse since. And all to the detriment of our working and middle classes. Since then, the “conservative” movement has used the military and false patriotism to erode all the gains we had made as far as closing the income gap and other macro economic issues. Reagan (or rather his puppeteers) used his “strength” and “patriotism” to convince people to accept trickle down bullshit and his Republican successors have doubled and tripled down on it. W and Cheney were particularly egregious and disgusting in exploiting those things to the point where if you disagreed with them about anything at all, you were anti-American and pro-terrorism. Тяцмр (or rather his puppeteers) is doing very much the same thing except using immigrants as his main foil.
There are many turning points in our history but I think the killing of JFK really started the ball rolling to where we are now, on the brink of actual fascism.
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