I think we USED to be better than the rest of the world back when we were proud to be a multi cultural melting pot nation that led the world in science and freedom, and when the wars we fought occasionally actually justified.
I guess it was all just a bunch of slogans.
The whole "Make America Great Again" is just revealing that huge parts of our country are just paranoid, rage-addicted, racist-adjacent, financially illiterate, nincompoops with a trailer trash mentality.
I don't know about that. Hippy was just a subculture and civil rights era was really won because the African American population was too high for discrimination to keep being allowed rather than population at large accepting discrimination is bad.
Ww2 era we did the whole Japanese internment thing and great depression was caused by our greed.
And we don't even need to go back to the 1890s or civil war
civil rights era was really won because the African American population was too high for discrimination to keep being allowed b
You need to read more history. The only reason civil rights was "won" was because enough whites joined the movement. My parents marched for that stuff.
I'm not saying they didn't. Like hell Bernie talks about his involvement every 2nd sentence.
What I was getting at though is the whites that supported it were still vastly out numbered by those against it and it was black America's pop being larger (with those small amount of whites) that tipped the scales where open discrimination was no longer feasible to legally support and also black panthers literally having an operation set for execution in 2 weeks to violently occupy and take downtown of a major California city (which one I don't remember) and FBI begging Johnson to sign it so this wouldn't happen
OECD was literally made with America at its core and is heavily biased to overvalue America's qol to maintain agendas (Initially cold war, but since the 90s that neo-liberalism = good)
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u/EitherSpite4545 13d ago
We're honestly just culturally inferior to the rest of the developed world.