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frozensoul94
Lets be honest here, America really died with JFK. The goons that came after just added fuel to the fire.
CHall1983
Washington?
Holinyx05
I've always said the last actual Republican president was Eisenhower. He taxed the rich and created the Interstate system.
AlfonsetheChinchilla
This is a good meme. Quality meme. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/13/personal-apology-young-americans-failing-stop-ronald-reagan
FailedCrate
Started even earlier, from the beginning with the overall 'murican political system, but yes, Reagan was a huge catalyst.
TwelveAngryMuffins
Hey hey. Let's give Andrew Johnson some credit.
ameriki
Nixon.
UncleScarwasright
Followed by Gingrich
Scylia
Wilson too, don't forget him.
Renza0
I blame Emperor Constantine 1. he took a small weird cult and turned it into a big overbearing cult that hunted down scholars and engineers
Tarlon
It was kind of too late to try doing anything else at that point - Christinaity had become too depply rooted throughout the empire.
Tarlon
And bear in mind, the Romans had tried really, REALLY hard to get rid of them several times by then.
fivefrozenfishfingers
hadtochangemyusernamecauseIgotdivorced
Lol. Is this from one of the COD games?
Braveemink
Yes
PhillSeeley
"I leave you with four words, I'm glad Reagan dead." Killer Mike - Reagan
Masonrig
trondason1
Fucking wow.
Masonrig
Yeah, I think it would be interesting to have this chart go back farther. I think it would tell an interesting story.
nocommennts
If there was one single cause, we could hope for one single solution. Instead it's all of y'all who are the cause
agrodge
You are wise beyond your….well, beyond Imgur.
DangerTrain
I don't think you understand the concept of "cause".
MotoCanuck
Nixon was also a cunt.
slackboy722000
Try Nixon.
Nandortherelentless
Fuck Reagan. Both of them, equally.
alexcoldt
Reagan, Nixon, or Hoover.
ScarletEmerald
Vacuum cleaners are the devil!
drezrale
Don't forget about Woodrow Wilson.
PalaverQuader
water from lead pipes. low average IQ.
ElbowDeepInAllTheThings
God.
PotatOSLament
Andrew Jackson messed up the banks kicking off the boom/bust economy cycle that continues to this day. And to thank him he’s on the $20.
baconandmorebacon
Columbus.
Vrh101
If you want all problems i would go even further back. Nixon and the Temporary abolishment of The gold standard.. but still not all problems
FlamesOfTheZodiac
Jefferson with the two party system because he hated hamilton and burr and such refused to work with burr
GoToTheZoo
I mean, Hamilton and Burr were pieces of shit so I get it. Also the two party system is an emergent property of the voting system -
GoToTheZoo
- not necessarily any parties themselves. The federalist party was throwing its weight around too much and was opposed, can't fault -
GoToTheZoo
- people for forming a party opposite them.
FlamesOfTheZodiac
True
Quenya3675
The real problem, the root, is conservatism. Reagan and other trash like him are just the ugly flowering of that evil bush.
georgedragonslayer
Point at Reagan all you want, it started quite awhile before him and he was only a small part of the overall problem.
downsouthfarm
Australian version: Howard
TheBisexualestBoyInTheVillage
UK Version: Thatcher
NinetiesBoomer
Dinkleberg...
RetrogradeLlama
Yes... Reagan and Newt. But they already had the same base of stupidity and ignorance we see today to push it through.
Hashbrown123
Nute Raygun? https://imgur.com/30oOawC.jpg
metalrulercid
Fuck yeah. Grinnich is as guilty as Reagan. Both of them cancer.
noonehasthisoneyet
It should tell people not to vote Republican but they keep doing it and keep blaming the wrong people
fknbastard
In fact their base still worships the ground they shat on.
PineappleLoopsBroether
If you say Reagan I think Faye
eathotdog
Herpes
RetrogradeLlama
no
Asadsadsadclown
WHoah there buddy, lets not forget the father of revisionist history Woodrow Wilson. He's the one that empowered the United Daughters of the
Asadsadsadclown
Confederacy to run around putting up confederate monuments and rewriting history to ahve the civil war be about "states rights".
Asadsadsadclown
He also almost fucked up WW1 peace talks because he pushing his proto-Pax Americana bullshit.
Sageypie
I'd still say that Reagan did the most damage, mostly by way of his cult of personality. Completely shook up GOP politics in that they-
fknbastard
Ah but Gingrich pushed the whole religious conservative angle that fights science, women’s rights, and medicine
Sageypie
-started to really push for candidates that could be popular instead of those that were actually fit to lead. Modern day we see this with-
Sageypie
-folk like Trump, Boebert, Gaetz, MTG, and DeSantis. Just these people that can grab attention, and that's who the GOP pushes forward
Namotatop
As a german I gotta say you can have any kind of politician in any kind of country. To prevent a grim future, vote, protest, raise ya voice!
terdfergusonuf
Google “The Business Plot”. The fascists have been lurking in shadows and accumulating all the wealth.
annoyedOnion
Are you referring to Newt Gingrich? (I have never heard of her so would do more research)
MrBoopyPutthole
Eisenhower
drowninginthesouth
Newt just got subpoenaed in GA I think for some part he played in the election controversy.
MostlyWhelmed
Don’t forget Kissinger
RetrogradeLlama
He was just a foreign policy Right Winger. They come and go. he wasn't really involved in the domestic agenda that has killed Democracy.
RetrogradeLlama
And to be fair, even Reagan ending up "proudly" extending the Voting Rights Act for 25 years. What they put in motion though...
Asadsadsadclown
He also proposed universal healthcare in a fireside chat and immediately walked it back. Reagan was a bastard but he was only a puppet.
BrickShakes
I get your point, but i think it started a little further back with a not so commonly known event called the Atlantic slave trade.
Zreen
Well that's a little before "modern"
BrickShakes
Yes, but the economic impacts are very visible and measurable even today, so it's still the origin of modern issues.
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IWouldLikeToGetOffThisRideNowPlease
Honestly it was the damn fish coming out of the damn water. We could have been mermaids
GoToTheZoo
I mean, not ALL modern problems. Some are uniquely Reagan's, while he intensified or ignored many that were originally caused by slavery.
NaughtButOne
bot1010011010
and pogroms and gulags
tarnok
The founding fathers were basically business owners that were pissed off at government taxes.
RamsesMCMXCI
*capitalism
BrickShakes
Well yea, and feudalism still wasn't completely dead either i guess in parts of EU which also did slavery.
Wraid
SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin
Damn, is this really the closest I can get to seeing someone blame the Puritans in these comments?
Fadetoblack021
I get your point, but I think it started a little further back with a not so commonly known event called the extermination of the natives.
ThronesWoven
I get your point, but i think it started a little further back when Eve ate that fucking apple
LarvaLamp
Which natives?
Fadetoblack021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
LarvaLamp
It was a sarcastic question. Pretty much all natives everywhere have been displaced, conquered or wiped out by more advanced people.
INeverWaitForIt
Thing is, just about every shitty thing in the US can be traced back to racism, including slavery and the abhorrent treatment of natives.
PosthumousExile
Which can be traced back to religion!
flounder35
Bay goes even further back. Damn Vikings discovering this land. Bunch o jerks.
Jgold101
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
averageNerdyGuy
Came to say this. Have an updoot!
BrickShakes
Well i don't think my ancient ancestors actions have much impact on today.
PossiblyATank
unfortunately they very much do
LarvaLamp
1492 would like a word.
Zreen
I think the vikings discovered it much earlier than that
LarvaLamp
They did, but they didn't really alter world history by doing so.