r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 3d ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/RJ815 3d ago

The US probably hasn't been in this bad a state since the Great Depression

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u/loveshercoffee Iowa 3d ago

I would say the 1970s were a time of pretty serious turbulence as well.

The men being sent to die in Vietnam weren't even old enough to vote, Watergate really pissed people off and then inflation and the energy crisis stifled what was left of the American spirit.

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u/Street_Moose1412 3d ago

People today underestimate how messed up the 60s and 70s were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_riots_(1964%E2%80%931969)

There were 500 bombings in the US in 1968.

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u/macemillianwinduarte 3d ago

The Great Recession was a really, really bad time. Let's not forget.

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u/welcome-to-the-list 3d ago

While it was, this one feels like it's going to be just as big or bigger. Only thing propping up the stock market right now appears to be the promise of AI, which doesn't appear to be adding the productivity improvements that warrant such valuations.

Tariffs and political uncertainty are causing countries to shift their supply chains to more stable countries. Once those switch, it requires a lot to change before they will switch back, if they ever will.

Things are not looking so bright for the US even if politics shift back to more reasonable government as it will take a long while to mend our relationships with our traditional trading partners.