re: When Did America’s Decline Begin?

Clinton/Bush...Johnson set it all in motion

quote:

---

But when you take a look around, you can see this country is not what it once was.

---

Wtf are you talking about? You’re only 35 years old but claim the peak was in WWII.

You are just parroting shite you read and hear. Give some facts. Why is America declining? Which country have you visited or lived that is better?

Maybe America has NOT declined. Maybe the WORLD has declined. Maybe YOU have declined.

The passing of the Hart–Celler Act

quote:

---

How about our major cities crumbling? How about the rampant crime in these major cities?

---

These things aren’t happening in America. Perhaps in other countries.

quote:

---

When most of them were married it didn't have as big of an effect.

---

i understand the point you are making, but even then, they served to cancel out and effectively silence their husbands votes for sanity and small government. so in reality they did huge damage even back then, but you are right that its way worse now than back then

kciDaTaE, why don’t you share how old you are? Maybe you are older than me, maybe you’ve seen more. I’m not parroting anything, I have always been interested in history and have learned about our country’s past. Just because I wasn’t around in the 40’s doesn’t mean I don’t know that it was the most unified our country has ever been.

No, I’ve never visited another country. I would like to, hopefully down the road. Every country has its problems, no doubt. What I’m discussing in this thread is why America has declined in the sense to where what was expected of us as a country, the standard we came to set and embrace, is no longer the same.

Tell me why crime has soared. Tell me why there are so many homeless that are filling up major cities. Tell me why, for years, inner cities have crumbled into decay and overpowering drug addiction.

Why have our leaders failed us? Why are we so divided as a nation? I feel we are more divided than ever. We are supposed to be the UNITED States of America and yet that feels so far from the current reality. We once had the world’s strongest economy, and now… that is far gone. So many Americans face poverty, hunger, uncertainty.

Why are we sending billions to Ukraine when we could be using that money to fix problems here at home? This is not a post to bash America, not at all. I just want things to get better. The first step? Talking about the past to have a better future.

I tend to agree that the world overall has declined due to geopolitics, not necessarily just US, but we are definitely losing our edge. We had/have infinite natural resources in US to exploit but we are no longer able to do so given globalism. But like Warren Buffet, I am optimistic in America and our ingenuity…

Everyone panics and acts like we are doomed if we are no longer the single greatest super power. Put yourself in shoes of citizen of any other country…they aren’t US citizens and they go about their lives just fine. Where else would you rather live than in the US?

Sexual revolution.

All of this clown world nonsense is because we rejected morality. Now we have the brunch crowd supporting corporate welfare, the police state, forever wars, union busting, and trashing the environment as long as they get to kill babies.

quote:

---

But you acting like we are shite.

---

I never once said that we were. I love my country. Read my earlier posts to see that all I want is a discussion. We are not the country we once were. How can we get back to that point?