When Did America’s Decline Begin?

September 11, 2001

Party was over and everyone got in everyone's shite. Politics became foremost importance and the music industry that had been going to shite since 1998, fully went to shite.

When Nixon took us off the gold standard

I used to think it was the 1960s or maybe later under Clinton, maybe Obama

But I think it’s when they didn’t let Patton get rid of Stalin

When ACE Hardware changed their jingle to be more inclusive of women.

Without a doubt, LBJ

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When did the United States of America begin its decline?

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Post-WWII, with the seeds beginning in the 1910s.

January 20th, 2009…

When Chicken created the PT Board

The slave trade’s beginning. No doubt.

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My position is that WW2 era America was the peak, we were the greatest country in the world and we knew it.

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There are very concrete reasons why the US was a leader after WW2. Mostly, because Europe and Japan were in ruins. The US used the war to ramp up manufacturing etc. This got the US out of the Depression and since it wasnt in ruins, the US was able to speed ahead of the rest of the world. The result was the 50s. But Im not so sure things were so awesome before the 40s. Certainly the depression wasn't. And before that the US was still a burgeoning country, just getting able to be a leader on the world stage.

The 50s provided those who lived in it a lot of jobs and the explosion of the middle class suburbs. At some point, the rest of the world repaired itself.

My question is, was the 50s an aberration? We tend to look back at is as who we are. But really, maybe it was just a honeymoon of sorts.