Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it’s challenging to get “those people” to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won’t accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim “America is the greatest country in the world”, while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn’t great, if it has to be made to be such again.
It also means that it once was great but it also completely abdicates any responsibility for defining when that great period was in our timeline?
Was it great in the 50s when institutional racism was the law and a black girl going to college was justification for rolling out the national guard?
Was it great in the 70s when we were fighting in Vietnam for literally no reason?
Like what time period are they talking about?
Maybe they mean in the late 40s when we were rolling off the high of winning world war II? And the great majority of men had died to the point where wage inflation made even moderately capable men comparatively wealthy to today’s standard?
Is make America great again really just a code to try to start and win world war III so that 20% of all males in America would die and therefore the surviving 80% would have more luxuries given to them by default?
Reminds me of this No, you weren’t “born in the wrong decade”
Well, me being 40, without any military experience, I have no reason to think I’d ever be in the 20%. So by this logic, I would recieve more luxeries in my life.
That being said, fuck that.