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I think we've been there a long time it's just taken someone as chaotic and despotic as Trump to actually use those reigns of power for this kind of thing. I remember feeling similarly about the kind of shit we let Dubya Bush get away with, and then learning some history and realizing this kind of overreach horseshit went all the way back to Reagan... then all the way back to Nixon.
The system was already this way, it was just waiting for the right twisted freak to fuck it all up from the inside.
Then all the way back to the o. K corral. J.p Morgan didn't like the unsettling climate that little war was creating for his investors. Dude went and basically bought the presidency. Sound familiar?
Look it up. Fascinating how far back federal corruption and local greed intersect
I mean, it's not that fascinating, we're a country that was basically founded by a bunch of wealthy landowners who hated being taxed. They hated contributing to a common good. They were like the Zuckebergs and Musks and Bezoses of their time. The country was literally founded on only land-owning white men being allowed to vote.
you're right, not fascinating, more like "revealing"
You can always track further back to earlier causes, but I think that we took a real hard turn for the worse in this country when Ford pardoned Nixon and an angry mob didn't rend Richard the Treacherous limb from limb. If the powers that be can just dispense Get Out Of Jail Free cards to their buddies and the people are unwilling or unable to fight back and force there to be consequences, then nobody in a position of power ever really needs to worry about abusing their office.