This is a good take.
I used to think you’re part of the basement dwelling & shift-working peasants a la Langley rats wannabe brigade, who always want to bully everyone into ‘Murikkka is the greatest & is always right’ perspective. However, after reading some of your takes on certain topics - you’re more balanced than I initially thought albeit still pro-American (which is understandable).
That said, what do you think went wrong from the 80s to 2008? (I’ve got my theory).
And I'm still not sure if you are apart of the pro-Russia disinformation bot farm coalition, but that argument isn't productive so I won't engage it.
So now that we got that out the way.
I'm always gonna be pro-America; at least the concept of it. I live here. Imma call their fukk shyt out historically and currently, but I believe the US has the best framework and circumstances to move into the future equitably, the country just isn't living up to it. It did at one point for white people, but it stood on the shoulders of other people to do it. The irony is the system has even screwed "white" people over at this point and many of them are too uninformed, disengaged and xenophobic, often willfully to do anything about it.
Personally, I've lived a bunch of different lives, met a bunch of people in all walks of my life. Arguably about to cross into my 4th career and I'm not even 40 yet. I've had to work absurdly hard to get any level of success, so I'm not oblivious to what reality is. But my perspective is nuanced because I've been around so many different kinds of people. I've run with people who done mad illegal shyt, I got fam that's career criminals and I have family that are millionaires. I've had someone in the KKK actually pull a knife on me and threaten to stab me. I've also unexpected people take me under their wing. My step pop was as pro-America as could be, got hype as shyt on 4th of July and put flags and shyt all over his work van, but dude was probably the most well read person I've ever known on communism, socialism, capitalism, black nationalism, and introduced me to all of that at 12. He understood that you can support the country while criticizing it too, and that's what I do.
It's easy to point the finger at Reagan. He's just a figurehead; dude was an actor, he was never cunning enough to orchestrate the current system we have, he just had to be the spokesperson, where his acting could come in handy. It predates him by quite a bit in my opinion. It's really not one person or entity, it's an environment that creates the system we have today. It's the type of capitalism we have that's doing it. I'm pro-capitalist too, but I don't think we have the correct political or tax system in place to control it. And if I had to point to a single entity; the consulting firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. They lobbied for so many industries and put so many politicians in place that everything has deconstructed itself into the state we have now.
think about that for a second.