I feel like OP is of the cusp of a realisation: “Hang on. Are we the baddies?”
Around the time that we decided to subjugate the natives, steal their land, and bring in slaves. America has only been the land of the free for rich whites.
Damn, that’s perfectly correct, but… I was anticipating a bit of white-washing??
Natives, always… please leave us alone?
Reagan through the 90s was the period where things visibly degraded to a joke of what the country once was. 9/11 was at once a direct symptom of our own fuckery over the preceding decades, as well as the final nail in the coffin that pushed large sections of our political landscape towards fascism. It was nascent for a while, but everything became fairly overt in 2016.
Frankly, day one. The idea that America was ever an example to the rest of the world is American revisionism. If you actually look at American history you’ll see the current American administration is very in line with the way we’ve always been.
The US was built on a foundation of genocide and slave ownership. It was never great.
And its foreign policy is destroying countries for profit.
in a reversal of the question, op, when do you think the US was great and why?
They actually never were. It was always an empire since 1776, at the hands of the Vatican.
Explain. I’ve got my tinfoil hat ready!
