But this is a net sum game. If Moira gets her health care and medical equipment then the judge presiding over some GOP politician’s son’s rape trial isn’t going to get his payout. Butterfly wings, man.
Actually, not really. We are coming off a long period of relative peace and prosperity which skews our perspective a little bit. This is a better time to be an American than during the great depression, the civil war, probably either world war, etc.
However, it felt like our Constitutional Democracy was in better shape during those periods outside of the Civil War.
Though yes, while it is abundantly apparent our Democracy is being torn apart by Republicans right now, it was worse in the past which is why we needed voting laws. Now that they’re gone, Repugs have gone right back to being evil and un-Democratic.
More than the Nixon era? More than the impeachment of Clinton (could have gone another way)?
You feel it because you’re living it, now. History is, in contrast, either more sterile, unknown (if you’re not a huge history buff), or frankly faded a bit from memory. The current political situation obviously isn’t great, but I’m skeptical it’s the worse ever, barring the Civil War.
Definitely worse time I can remember (b. 1962). Was talking to my son recently about how good I had it growing up around DC in the post WW2 Pax Americana era and had always assumed it would stay that way.
I guess it’s hard to judge. The chief differences are 1) Nixon killed thousands of Americans unnecessarily for years, while 2) Nixon wasn’t holding his party as willing hostages in the end.
There are periods of our history when corporations murdered striking workers, and the cops helped them. There are periods when we lynched young black men nearly every day. Periods where we violently oppressed gay people. It’s hard to understand how bad it was back then.