re: When did you first realize our country had gone off track?

It started with the invasion of Iraq. The Patriot Act seemed sus before, but Iraq seemed like such an obvious f$&k up that had nothing to do with 9/11 that I couldn’t comprehend the cognitive dissonance. However, it wasn’t until Katrina that I realized just how completely incompetent and incoherent our government had become. This was reinforced with the BP oil spill. Wikileaks helped me realize government wasn’t just incompetent, but straight up evil and dystopian. I didn’t realize just how deep the corruption went until I interned for a local judge in law school and overheard some drunk judges swapping campaign war stories with absolutely horrifying details. Covid showed just how far gone we are towards tyranny.

As for socially, I knew something was f$&ked when my high school descended into racial violence after Obama’s election. Race had been such a non-issue before that and most friend groups there were integrated. However, I wrote it off as one-off stupid event.

The rise of Tumblr and cancel culture while I was in college was when I realized something was incurably wrong with society.

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The election of WJC...the death of Statesmanship

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For many Americans over age 55 this ^^^^ was the absolute beginning of US politics going off the rails.....Slick Willie.

1963 when Supreme Court took prayer out of school. The slippery slope really started then. LBJ is a close second

January 22, 1973 - Roe v Wade

When the useful idiot Jimmy Carter was elected. I wasn't around for Woodrow Wilson or F. Roosevelt, so I would say one of them. LBJ was an awful person and racist POS that did nothing but destroy the fabric of society and get thousands of men killed in Vietnam.

The media started to become overly partisan during W’s term.

Throw in celebrities trying to out woke one another and the social media boom.

The thing I didn’t realize is how far gone academia had been infested by deranged ideologues.

2004.

That's when the Dims fully abandoned working people and cucked to the MIC/Wall Street. (Obama was a bait and switch.)

Since they were screwing us, they had to distract people from economic issues. Republicans already had the God and country lane, so the Democrats had to go with Clown World.

When senate majority leader Harry Reid changed the rules on approving judges from 60 to 51. Democrats have been able to place many radical left wing judges on the bench. Look at that wacko biden put on supremecourt.

When George Wallace got shot and didn’t get the nomination.