@RustyBertrand the same stark difference between the ~1970s and now can be found in Iran, Lebanon, and many other places in the middle east.
This is what conservatism brews.
it plummets humanity hundreds of years backwards, on the broken memory of the "good old days" forgetting they weren't all that good for everybody.
it's happening in the "western part of the world" too, were more and more conservatives are getting power.