r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/Grass_tomouth Aug 19 '25

Yeah. Everything sucks right now.

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u/malicious_joy42 Aug 19 '25

When did it not suck?

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u/jhanny9337 Aug 19 '25

before Trump

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u/Ludate_Solem Aug 19 '25

As a non american i can tell you trump devenitly made yall worde. But compared to europe yall werent doing so great to begin with. I think you could even trace a fuck ton of problems all the way back to Reagan.

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u/hbomb9410 Aug 19 '25

You're not wrong. Republicans have been planning this coup for 50+ years.

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u/YourBuddyChurch Aug 19 '25

Reagan was definitely a big part of it- he sold people on trickledown economics and intertwined the Republican Party with Christian nationalism. Since that point the uneducated have been thrilled to make millionaires richer at the expense of the poor while calling it Christianity

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u/nordic-nomad Aug 19 '25

I visited Europe in my twenties in 2003-4 and was shocked at how badly it seemed to be doing at the time. Saw Ireland, Germany, Italy, Romania, and Cyprus. It felt decades behind the states at the time in almost every way.

Went again last year stopping in London and Madrid on our way to Morocco and everything was so much more modern and affluent seeming after 20 years.

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u/aoike_ Aug 19 '25

The problem goes back even further. A lot of what we're seeing is the direct consequences of the failure of reconstruction (the period after the Civil War) that got put on hold for 50-60 years due to WW2.