The Difference between a 23YO American in 1980, and a 23YO American in 2025

[moondust]

79. Indeed.

Well said.

Reagan era: Greed is good.
40 years later: Greed is God.

Reagan era also demonized "big gubment." That was easy to do back when the USSR still existed and didn't allow much private enterprise. Evil empire!!! It worked so well the GQP are still doing it, perhaps leading to DOGE and all sorts of other cuts to "big bad" government. Of course private enterprise may not always take good care of the "commons" shared by all, preferring to do anything to boost their stock price. Privatization of everything might even create a global sewer that even the oligarchs may not be able to escape.

I've always had some reservations about the U.S. and its morally questionable slave-owning founders, totally irresponsible gun culture and assassinations, endless unnecessay wars, etc., and Raygun's 49-state landslide reelection in 1984 certainly didn't help.

Maybe change its name to "Greedland"?