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It was a different time, when leaders had principles, morals, and basic humanity. Nowadays we prefer soulless corrupt psychopaths to brutalise us while feathering their own nest.
........I don't prefer it.
I really dislike when people say “we”. I did not vote for the orange man.
I mean tbf the guy (elected) before him was Nixon.
And then followed by Regan
Lee Harvey Oswald killed America.
The 1960's were rough for a lot of reasons but four of the highest profile assassinations in US (or even world) history occuring within five years has to be right at the top.
John F. Kennedy in 1963,
Malcolm X in 1965,
Martin Luther King in 1968,
Bobby Kennedy in 1968
Nixon did his damnedest, before winning the 1968 election, to prolong the Vietnam War in hopes of leveraging the conflict for political gain.
I can't even comprehend being so ruthlessly evil that I would gladly fling tens of thousands of people into a wood chipper to boost my political career.