When was America Great?

[SavannahMann]

We keep hearing that Trump is needed to Make America Great Again.

Ok. So when was America Great? Tell me the year that America was Great and why. I’m honestly curious as to what you’ll answer. Was it 1985 when Reagan was starting his second term with a 49 state landslide re-election? Was it earlier? Later?

Tell me what happened to end that greatness.

 

[BackAgain]

We keep hearing that Trump is needed to Make America Great Again.

Ok. So when was America Great? Tell me the year that America was Great and why. I’m honestly curious as to what you’ll answer. Was it 1985 when Reagan was starting his second term with a 49 state landslide re-election? Was it earlier? Later?

Tell me what happened to end that greatness.

Low quality bait thread.

 

[shockedcanadian]

1920s were a dominant decade for America before the depression.

 

[SavannahMann]

Low quality bait thread.

I’m actually serious. Our Military remains the most powerful in the world. We still spend more than the next ten nations combined. Our economy remains powerful.

So in military might we remain number one. In economics we are certainly dominant. While China appears to be catching up, that is a bit of an illusion. The best aircraft are built here. The F-35 is being sold do more than a dozen nations including many first world nations because it is better than anything they could produce domestically.

So what is it that we don’t have? What did we lose from when we were great?

 

[Rambunctious]

2017 till 2020.....

 

[SavannahMann]

1920s were a dominant decade for America before the depression.

I asked why and what change messed it up. What about the 1920’s was great?

 

[ThisIsMe]

We keep hearing that Trump is needed to Make America Great Again.

Ok. So when was America Great? Tell me the year that America was Great and why. I’m honestly curious as to what you’ll answer. Was it 1985 when Reagan was starting his second term with a 49 state landslide re-election? Was it earlier? Later?

Tell me what happened to end that greatness.

Did it ever occur to anyone that trump wasn’t talking about a time in americas history when he said “make America great again, but rather bolstering americas position on the world stage? Making America great again in the eyes of the rest of the world?

I mean, trump didn’t ever say what he meant by “maga” did he? Seems like everyone else assigned their own meaning to it.

Even if he was referring to a time in history, the left automatically assigned all the negative connotations to it. Maybe trump did mean a time in the past, when Americans worked hard, built great things, and the economy was better.

For me personally, though I wasn’t alive in the 50’s, it seems like it would have been a good time to be alive. Things seemed like they were simpler then. It seemed like a more wholesome time, and people had values. Not that I believe a woman’s place is in the home, but back then, the wife COULD stay at home and raise the kids and make the home, and a man could work a 40 hour week and make enough money to buy a house, raise a family, buy 2 cars, go on vacation each year, and put the kids through college, and then be able to retire comfortably after 20 years with the company.

Maybe my idea of that time doesn’t reflect what it was really like, but that’s the idea I have in my head of it.

 

[Flash]

When was America great?

Back when only land owning White Men could vote.

 

[BackAgain]

I’m actually serious. Our Military remains the most powerful in the world. We still spend more than the next ten nations combined. Our economy remains powerful.

So in military might we remain number one. In economics we are certainly dominant. While China appears to be catching up, that is a bit of an illusion. The best aircraft are built here. The F-35 is being sold do more than a dozen nations including many first world nations because it is better than anything they could produce domestically.

So what is it that we don’t have? What did we lose from when we were great?

Stop playing. We all recognize your low quality bait.

 

[MarathonMike]

I’m actually serious. Our Military remains the most powerful in the world. We still spend more than the next ten nations combined. Our economy remains powerful.

So in military might we remain number one. In economics we are certainly dominant. While China appears to be catching up, that is a bit of an illusion. The best aircraft are built here. The F-35 is being sold do more than a dozen nations including many first world nations because it is better than anything they could produce domestically.

So what is it that we don’t have? What did we lose from when we were great?

Every aspect of American life is on the decline. EVERY ASPECT. The Post WW II era and the baby boomer generation was perhaps the last "great" period for America.

 

[EMH]

The 1990s, when government spending was 25% of GDP, instead of 50% now....

 

[shockedcanadian]

I asked why and what change messed it up. What about the 1920’s was great?

Everything. I can't encapu!ate it all now, but America was the unchallenged leading global Super Power by far responsible for almost half of the worlds industries and had a 40%+ production growth in that decade alone. Once you started to centralize, you started your decline.

 

[JWBooth]

We keep hearing that Trump is needed to Make America Great Again.

Ok. So when was America Great? Tell me the year that America was Great and why. I’m honestly curious as to what you’ll answer. Was it 1985 when Reagan was starting his second term with a 49 state landslide re-election? Was it earlier? Later?

Tell me what happened to end that greatness.

Up until the Philadelphia coup of 1787.

 

[SavannahMann]

Did it ever occur to anyone that trump wasn’t talking about a time in americas history when he said “make America great again, but rather bolstering americas position on the world stage? Making America great again in the eyes of the rest of the world?

I mean, trump didn’t ever say what he meant by “maga” did he? Seems like everyone else assigned their own meaning to it.

Even if he was referring to a time in history, the left automatically assigned all the negative connotations to it. Maybe trump did mean a time in the past, when Americans worked hard, built great things, and the economy was better.

For me personally, though I wasn’t alive in the 50’s, it seems like it would have been a good time to be alive. Things seemed like they were simpler then. It seemed like a more wholesome time, and people had values. Not that I believe a woman’s place is in the home, but back then, the wife COULD stay at home and raise the kids and make the home, and a man could work a 40 hour week and make enough money to buy a house, raise a family, buy 2 cars, go on vacation each year, and put the kids through college, and then be able to retire comfortably after 20 years with the company.

Maybe my idea of that time doesn’t reflect what it was really like, but that’s the idea I have in my head of it.

People in the 1950’s were complaining that the world was going to hell. Women were shamelessly wearing bikinis. Dresses had gotten scandalously short. (Wait a decade and the mini skirt was invented.) Blacks had started playing professional sports and were paid equal to Whites in the sport.

The Military was desegregated causing social problems and making people complain that the military was not a social program.

Korea was nearly lost because cuts to the military had made it so small and shallow that there wasn’t any force behind it.

Shall I continue?

 

[francoHFW]

1920s were a dominant decade for America before the depression.

The Classic Corrupt GOP deregulation free market bubble and bust world depression. Good job you do it every time...

 

[SavannahMann]

Every aspect of American life is on the decline. EVERY ASPECT. The Post WW II era and the baby boomer generation was perhaps the last "great" period for America.

When the Russians beat us into space and had a better fighter in the Mig-15 than we had in the F-86.

When the Soviets had spies in every single division of the US Government.

Got it.

 

[Failzero]

1959

 

[SavannahMann]

The 1990s, when government spending was 25% of GDP, instead of 50% now....

It still is about 25% of the GDP.

It neared 50% in 2020.

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[JGalt]

America is not so great today. Will someone please make it great again?

Joe Biden:

• Promised on several occasions that he would "end fossil fuels"

• Later stated “We’re going to need oil for at least another decade”

• Gasoline that rose over two times the price it was in 2018

• Ended Keystone XL pipeline while waiving sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2

• Suspected US involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

• The price of oil jumped up to $130 per barrel

• Drained US Strategic Oil Reserve to the lowest level since 1984

• Begged Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil

• Inflation rate rose as high as 9.1%, which was almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019

• Dumped billions of dollars down the black hole of "Global Warming"

• U.S. household wealth down $13.5 trillion in 2022 - Second fastest decline on record

• Average middle-class family came up about $6,000 short of purchasing power

• The DOW dropped 6,700 points in only a year

• Stock market lost $9 trillion dollars worth of value in only two years

• Retirement accounts lost $3 trillion dollars

• 30 year fixed mortgages rose by 4.43% in only two years, to 7.75%

• Home prices soared 43% in only two years and housing sales slumped

• Median asking rent prices rose 79.7% in only two years

• Bankrupted landlords by excusing rent payments

• Commercial Chapter 11 filings increased 68% in first half of 2023

• Grocery prices increased by 13.5% in only two years

• The price of electricity rose by 15.8% in only two years

• Americans paid $2,250 more in increased energy costs since Biden was elected

• Hefty tax increases on the lower and middle class

• Raised the tax burden on Americans making as little as $20,000/year.

• 84,000 new IRS agents arming and training to be home invaders

• Use of DOJ and FBI to harass political opponents

• A broken election system corrupt with fraud, sometimes taking months to count

• Wholesale mailing of ballots, ballot drop boxes, and illegal ballot harvesting

• Used a complicit media to lie, distort facts, and disseminate disinformation

• Conducting covert raids on American citizens and confiscating personal property

• Supply line disruptions, backorders, items out of stock or unavailable

• Massive backlog of cargo ships at US ports in 2022

• Sporadic shortages on grocery store shelves

• Air transportation disrupted, thousands of flight cancellations in 2022

• FAA system outages that disrupted thousands of flights in 2023

• Food-processing plants mysteriously burning down

• Record prices for eggs and poultry

• Record number of ecological disasters, train derailments, chemical spills, and fires

• Thousands of small businesses destroyed in order to benefit mega-corporations

• Continuing monumental trade deficit with China

• Allowed Communist China to operate "Police Stations" in American cities

• Allowed Chinese spy balloon to cross entire country, spying on military sites

• Used a $400,000 missile to shoot down a $12 hobbyist balloon over Alaska

• More COVID deaths than in 2020

• Vaccine mandates which caused deaths and debilitating health conditions

• Vaccine mandates which caused massive job losses for those who refused compliance

• Continued government funding for Planned Parenthood

• Eliminated Medicaid work requirements

• Increased food stamp giveaways by more than $1 billion a month, without Congress

• A whole generation of kids physically and psychologically damaged by prison-style lockdowns

• Subjecting young girls to creepy boys posing as "transgenders" in girl's locker rooms

• Stealing women's ability to fairly compete by allowing transgender males in women's sports

• Subjecting children to pornographic "Drag shows" and grooming them to be sex objects

• The promotion of transgenderism in schools, resulting in the genital and fertility mutilation
of children and adolescents by unethical medical practices and Big Pharma.

• Mass shootings occurring sometimes three times a week

• An exponentially-spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs

• Shutting down private prisons and turning inmates loose

• Fentanyl seizures up 745 percent

• 100,000 fentanyl deaths during Biden's first year of presidency

• 120% increase in opioid deaths in just two years

• Encouraged illegals to "surge" across the border without reason for amnesty

• A neutered Immigration and Customs Enforcement, virtually stopping arrests and deportations

• 4.9 million illegals crossing US border within only two years

• Added non-citizens to the census

• Immigration policies that dispersed COVID, crime, and potential terrorism throughout the US

• 900,000 "gotaways" who eluded apprehension and disappeared into American communities

• Record numbers of illegals dying while crossing the border

• Border Patrol arresting 98 who were on the terror watch list in 2022, 3X the last 5 years combined

• A President who wouldn't visit the border and said he had "More important things going on."

• A dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives

• Authorized drone strike killing 10 civilians, including 7 children, instead of ISIS-K operative

• $7.12 billion worth of US military equipment and weaponry left to the Taliban

• Hundreds of US citizens and Afghans left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal

• People falling out of the wheel wells of aircraft leaving Afghanistan

• A weakened US military more concerned with "political correctness" than creating soldiers

• A weakened US military via destructive anti-white racism and transgender-promoting policies

• Record low enlistment numbers

• A revitalized Russian oil industry, despite US sanctions

• A war in Ukraine that has cost the US billions of dollars and killed thousands

• Increased possibility of nuclear war with Russia

• Traded an America-hating lesbian doper basketball player for a terrorist Russian arms dealer,
while leaving an American Marine in a Russian prison

• North Korea continuing to expand their nuclear enrichment and missile programs

• A stronger Iran increasing their funding for Hamas and Hezbollah

• China became more energy and militarily dominant

• A senile, angry, and incompetent president who fell off of a bicycle, fell up stairs, insulted
half the people in America, labeled people as "terrorists", divided the country, and tried to incite
a civil war.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Did it ever occur to anyone that trump wasn’t talking about a time in americas history when he said “make America great again, but rather bolstering americas position on the world stage? Making America great again in the eyes of the rest of the world?

I mean, trump didn’t ever say what he meant by “maga” did he? Seems like everyone else assigned their own meaning to it.

Even if he was referring to a time in history, the left automatically assigned all the negative connotations to it. Maybe trump did mean a time in the past, when Americans worked hard, built great things, and the economy was better.

For me personally, though I wasn’t alive in the 50’s, it seems like it would have been a good time to be alive. Things seemed like they were simpler then. It seemed like a more wholesome time, and people had values. Not that I believe a woman’s place is in the home, but back then, the wife COULD stay at home and raise the kids and make the home, and a man could work a 40 hour week and make enough money to buy a house, raise a family, buy 2 cars, go on vacation each year, and put the kids through college, and then be able to retire comfortably after 20 years with the company.

Maybe my idea of that time doesn’t reflect what it was really like, but that’s the idea I have in my head of it.

Your fantasy sucks.