Michael Moore interviewed a bunch of GOPs of various ages. He separated them and asked the same question. "At what point did America veer off course?"

They all said the same thing; America was fine until they personally hit their 20's. The ones born in the 1950s thought the 1970s were the problem, and the ones born in the Disco Era blamed the Clinton years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This goes along with my initial reaction to OP.

I don't think it was when they stopped being coddled. I think it was when they got an age to start paying attention to politics or reading the newspaper (or when they finally had the tools/faculty to understand what was going on).

When we pick up the paper for the first time with open eyes, we let out a collective "oh god..."

[–] lemmyseikai 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unlikely they read it and understood it. The average American has a reading of comprehension no higher than 5th grade.

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

This limitation leads to anxiety and confusion due to a lack of ability to abstract.

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