@Lightfighter It only seems that way because our lives are so short, in reality the US has always been a horrendous, destructive entity.

@StarkRG @Lightfighter but at least they had decent economic policies until reagan i think

@condret @Lightfighter By what metric? For the white, middle-class standard living in suburbs, sure. Even that really only existed for a couple decades anyway and was mostly a fiction built up during the cold war to show how much better American capitalism was than Soviet communism. Once it became clear that the Soviet Union was imploding, "the economy" became just a buzzword for politicians to rave about when they're in power, and rant about when they're not.