the USA 🇺🇸 seemed prettty cool in the 1960’s. what happened?

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Guinnessron@reddit

We started getting biased bad press. Come here and see that it’s pretty damn good. Perfect? Hell no. But as good or better than ever in general.

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ToggleMoreOptions@reddit

Reddit is absolutely awful sometimes. This is a valid question and I agree with the other comments: the answer is more or less Reagan

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SchnTgaiSpork@reddit

Some people just don't seem to understand the difference between history and a Norman Rockwell painting.

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DivineMatrixTraveler@reddit

Richard Nixon killed the hippie movement for freedom, outlawed psychedelics and ended the gold standard. This started the decline in the country that never recovered.

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AnybodySeeMyKeys@reddit

Those really cool people during the 60s? They got older and became Trump voters.

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true reason is it was post WW2 and the US was beginning its reign as a superpower so it seemed cool and obv culturally influential. but reality wise the US sucked for a great majority of people at the time hence the civil rights movement during the decade

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New-Sheepherder2239@reddit

It’s still cool af, don’t let the whiney ass losers fool you

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Wyndeward@reddit

The Sixties when the societal rifts started, actually. Culture and counter-culture.

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asteriskelipses@reddit

Are you high? The 60s were tumultuous as fuck!!

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RollinThundaga@reddit

What about 1960s America do you think was cool? Understanding your preferences will help us explain why your perception of modern America is different.

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SteveSteveCleveSteve@reddit

Hell it was pretty cool as recently as the 90s. Then Newt Gingrich happened and the damn thing started rolling downhill like a loose tractor tire.

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sneezhousing@reddit

Cool in the 60's you mean when Black people didn't have equal rights. Women couldn't get a bank account or credit card without husband signature. What was cool back then

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