We used to be a decent country

Posted by Random-num-451284813

26 Comments

  1. RichardSaunders on

    in grandma’s day there was

    – kent state

    – my lai

    – redlining

    – white flight

    – the reagans laughing off the aids epidemic

    – etc.

    alwayshasbeenusedtobe.jfif

  2. myfrigginagates on

    Over 240 odd years we have had moments of greatness and decency. The 70s may have been the one decade where things seemed like we were getting it together. Then Reagan took over the GOP, brought religion into the political realm in a big way, Conservative propaganda started heavily with Limbaugh et al, Newt Gingrich introduced the Contract With America, the Clintons turned the Dems into Republican Lite and well…here we are.

  3. Wait…when were we a decent country? We had literal chattel slavery until 1865, Jim Crow for a century after that, and we immediately segued into the Republican takedown of the government from the Nixon/Reagan era onward. So when were we decent?

  4. There’s always been a class of people in this country who’ve hated the US and wanted to destroy it. These people are the same anti-American fucks who tried to pull off the Business Plot against FDR. This goes way further back than grandma here.

  5. monsterpuppeteer on

    Blah blah, nobody wants to take responsibility for the condition their life is in so they blame it on previous generations, previous administration, all previous. I’m perfect so why isn’t my life easy? Can’t be me.

  6. Sadly, my GenX brethren share a lot of that responsibility, also. They went hard for Trump. Especially the elder GenXers, the 65-75 cohort. Lead brain is not just a river in Egypt.

  7. fizzfantasy- on

    peak generational roast—grandma might be the OG cause of all our chaos! 😂

  8. Amatheiaisnoexcuse on

    Oh look, another bigot who picks on ppl because of the year they were born in. What a simp

  9. Yeah but young ppl are more complacent than earlier generations during similar bad periods and have a sort of “why try to fight anything “ attitude that is part of the problem too most ppl I know under 40 never go to protests or volunteer or sometimes even vote

  10. crickettehkm59 on

    The United States of America played being a decent country… The United States of America has never been decent to all of its population… Ask any person of color.

  11. ChefAsstastic on

    Its the fault of the ruling class l class not the silent generation. These types of memes are classic reddit brain rot.

  12. Didn’t the majority of young people not even vote in 2024? They get their share of the blame 

  13. BlueEyedMalachi on

    We warned everyone though. This isn’t just the culmination of decades of systemic bigotry or because of the 1%… it is also the fault of apathy.

    Indifference is more dangerous than active hatred; it is a silent killer of progress. Apathy and indifference bring about the eradication of potential and allow evil to thrive through stagnation.

    >The greatest danger to our future is apathy. — Jane Goodall