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[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

No, it started with Reagan

No, it started with Nixon

No, it started with Prescott Bush

All of history is built on what came before. I think if we really want to get to the root of America's collapse, we have to look way back. Doing so, I can only conclude that the Agricultural Revolution was a mistake.

[–] Brandonazz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Also it was because we didn't do reconstruction, which was because the landowners were too strong.

And the landowners were too strong in the 1860s because of compromise in the 18th century, on account of their ancestors being too strong.

Actually, come to think of it, aren't those the same people that elected Nixon, Reagan, and Bush?

Perhaps it's not so much that history repeats itself as that we have had the same intractable problem for hundreds of years: aristocrats.