• TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We were for 200 years, but then Nixon happened, and instead of fixing it, we doubled down with Reagan, then instead of fixing that we got here.

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      Civil war happened, and we didn’t fix it because Lincoln was assassinated, and Andrew Johnson was pro-South.

      We were on this path before Nixon.

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        19 hours ago

        That shit already started with Washington, the first american conspiracy theorist poisoning the ideological well of the nascent country by cautioning against enemies from within and without trying to undo the country instead of appealing to the coherence of a newly forming society.