Since when did USA government start to go downhill?

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Katie1964 · Accepted Answer

Right after George Washington. Still the best in the world but devolved since then.

electromagnetic · Accepted Answer

2000.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

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.

supercutebutt · Answer

2016 😞

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. 🍑😊

BCA6010 · Answer

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.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

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.

Big... Big... Problem...

FunkyMonkee · Answer

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!!

goaded · Answer

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.

msc545 · Answer

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.

OtterMan68 · Answer

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.

bingbongbangbung · Answer

Probably starting with Nixon after he made the USD into a fiat currency, along with sending manufacturing jobs overseas.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

First iteration: Reagan „trickonomics“. Second iteration: “Patriot“ laws after 9/11. That’s my take, anyway.

ApplePie409 · Answer

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.

NamerOfStars · Answer

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.

Billlewis · Answer

It began in earnest at the end of 2008, when the virulently anti America Obama/Biden ticket was voted into power.

Kinkyhubby · Answer

Under Obama when he started to divide us. And got way worst under Weak Biden.

Friendlybro79 · Answer

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.

sawno · Answer

I don't know enough about American history to really know, but I assume the moment the federal reserve was introduced.

clampfan101 · Answer

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.)

AviatorTom · Answer

That started several years ago, when a hanging chad determined the Presidential election.

SixFootSexy · Answer

When the Federal Reserve was instituted. They have stolen America's wealth and labor since their inception.

HighValue · Answer

When Bill Clinton was president and signed the free trade agreement with China.

sage2021 · Answer

The second Biden became president. And that is no lie. It's true!

XXblack88 · Answer

While since I been alive probably George H W bush. But it could have been going downhill longer then that.

Surely · Answer

Since I never cared to study politics. Can’t speak before my time. But it has been on a slow steady decline in my life time! Just been on ice on the last three years.

deus_ex_sisyphus · Answer

Since we started nominating geriatric patients to lead the country. We must establish a max age for presidency to rebound from the past decade of madness

Juxtapose · Answer

Andrew Jackson noticed problems of pretty deep-seated corruption during his presidency and he was pretty early on. He was literally our only president to balance the budget by the way.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Once corporations got involved in giving money to fund politicians careers it has been down hill since.

motownplayer2000 · Answer

Since we went to a two party system that has NO ONE’S interest at heart.

krin_m · Answer

It went downhill from 2016 to 2020. It is back, but has an uphill climb to recover.

chrissykerdock · Answer

during the bush admin

Anonymous · Answer

Since 1776, but more recently, since 1980 when Reagan was in office.

Wise4myage · Answer

When Biden became President.

skidawgkc22 · Answer

Honestly, Reagan.

Siri137 · Answer

1980, when Ronnie was elected.

abc3643 · Answer

Why do you believe it started "to go downhill"?

slatyb · Answer

Since 2016. Now it's recovering.

JacobJordan · Answer

Give or take 40 ish years now

exitseven · Answer

After JFK was assassinated.

Dargil · Answer

On January 20, 2009, about mid day.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Around the time Obama came into office

Anonymous · Answer

It has always been a joke.

Iron_Man · Answer

When Joe Biden took over

Pterodon · Answer

Obama then Biden administrations

AngryCarl · Answer

The rot set in with George Washington.

Darkest-Knight · Answer

When Trump got elected.

In_Trance · Answer

From the time the US became an independent nation.

Amur8711 · Answer

Its been going down hill for years

BLP11520 · Answer

the 70s corruption spread

DJB72 · Answer

1963...

ballweevil · Answer

from the start

CubaPirate · Answer

1776

eagle1951 · Answer

Clinton

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