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When you say "America has fallen into," it makes it sound like you believe that this is specific to America, and recent. Was there some historic golden-age tha

• Overtonwindow 9y ago
  I think there was, and it was pre-1990s. Something flipped after that. I feel like before the 90s, there was disagreement, but it didn't take on the extreme, vengeful tactics that it has today. This may be a result of the internet, or the 24hr news cycle, I honestly don't know. But something has changed. There's been a ratcheting up of attempts to silence dissent, and aggressively punish someone for disagreeing.
  • 2K17 9y ago
    A generation of women was brought up with third-wave or whatever feminism. Also you can waste a lot of money on bogus social initiatives at peak economy. Probably many other factors like globalisation.
  • humanrebar 9y ago
    The end of the Cold War might have had something to do with it. The Other went away, so people pick another one.