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I see lots of reagan replies and I can't disagree. Don't get me wrong the 70's had plenty of issues but it seemed like we generally were trying to make progress up till then and reagan was the start of regression. The thing is we had so much largess to float on and many of the things had short term benefit for larger long term loss. So it seemed decent right through the nineties. It was like two steps back one forward. by trump jr it was all steps back and trump picked up the pace and has now turned around and running full steam backwards. Any progress we have made in between have increasingly not even been able to get us back to where we were and real foundational improvements are hard so they tend to be the kind of short term win that does not bring a whole lot in the long run. Especially when it all gets reversed. Its kinda amazingly sad how different the us and the worldwould be with just a few small things. Think about the hanging chads and how environmental progress would be different and remember the clinton administration had alkaheida on their radar. Then scotus ruling in the shadow of obamas pick being stolen. We are talking massive massive differences in where we would be now.