Right after George Washington. Still the best in the world but devolved since then.
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Since FDR instituted the New Deal, the population has expected the government to fix every problem that happens in their lives. That is not the proper function of government and it allows the populace to vote us into bankruptcy.
Depending on who you ask, either the Johnson, FDR, Wilson, Lincoln, Jackson, or Adams administration. Each of these represent periods in which a significant abuse of power became law and did not get shot down by the supreme Court of the time, in most cases out of fear. I did not include anyone after Johnson because by this point, the corruption you see on full display now had become normalized, which was a direct result of Roosevelt's leadership, but even that level of government abuse and hijacking stems from Woodrow Wilson. Wilson's administration is where I would argue that the United States stopped being the country it was founded to be, and the federal government became an antagonistic force towards the general public.
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We have the best economy in the world now, though. Lowest inflation of any civilized nation! But we have LOTS of dummies here who want to start a civil war over lies. The good news is we have a hot genius who has the cutest butt in the world. 🍑😊
I would argue it really started going to shit 100 years ago with President Wilson, but it's never been great.
Under Wilson, the big thing was that corporations started to be recognized as politically active entities in the same way a living person would be. So you basically had a situation where corporations could directly interface with government bureaucracy in a way that they couldn't before. Corporate entities effectively became movers and shakers within government.
A corporation is an entity that exists to generate a profit, usually for shareholders. When Wilson came to power, you saw the beginnings of a government where entities that exist solely to generate a profit being able to control governmental policy.
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At least as far back as Christmas day 1913 when the federal reserve was voted into existence. It's been steadily going downhill ever since, with few exceptions, i. e., the Lincoln years, the Kennedy years, the Trump years and possibly the Eisenhower and the Reagan years. The LBJ years is where the biggest decline since then started. Nixon, Ford, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Soetoro and Biden (Soetoro's 3rd term) have practically flushed us down the toilet!! The ONLY good thing ANY of them ever did was get us out of Viet Nam!!
1980, Reagan. He introduced the era of style over substance, removed the solar panels from the White House, busted the unions, and led to the end of the connection between productivity and wages. Income inequality has rocketed since he came to power.
It's never been great. From the very beginning, the United States has committed genocide first against indigent people in the US and then against people in central to the South America and now all across the world. This is also one of the most racist countries on the face of the earth. The economy has always been tilted toward the ultra rich and biased against the middle income and poor people. Just like it is today.
2000 is when we went from partisan to hyper-partisan. Before that, there were more moderates, and even some conservative democrats and liberal republicans. Now it's all far right or far left.
First iteration: Reagan „trickonomics“.
Second iteration: “Patriot“ laws after 9/11.
That’s my take, anyway.Probably starting with Nixon after he made the USD into a fiat currency, along with sending manufacturing jobs overseas.
We can't have good infrastructure or universal health care, because we somehow have to provide welfare for the rest of the world. Screw Ukraine and Israel. Let your country worry about that.
You are going to HAVE to be more specific. I can give examples from 1789, 1819, 1849, 1861, 1912, 1919, 1933, 1981, and 2001, and that's just off the top of my head.
It began in earnest at the end of 2008, when the virulently anti America Obama/Biden ticket was voted into power.
Under Obama when he started to divide us. And got way worst under Weak Biden.
I don't know enough about American history to really know, but I assume the moment the federal reserve was introduced.
I don’t know, but it hardly feels like the same country as the one I grew up in. It’s try to go from the respectable “One Nation Under God” to “One Nation Over God”. (Which is literally impossible.)
That started several years ago, when a hanging chad determined the Presidential election.
When the Federal Reserve was instituted. They have stolen America's wealth and labor since their inception.
When politicians were allowed to legally be bribed by rich donors and big corporations. We're not down and out we just need to get through this incredibly tough and ridiculously divisive time.
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