Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.

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It actually started really ramping up in 2008-2009. Tea Party, birthers, so on. It’s amazing what happens when someone who wasn’t white was elected president.

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It actually started with Newt and his bullshit back in '96…well, actually it started with fucking Reagan and his trickle down bullshit back in '80…then again, maybe it started when

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This is the correct answer. It’s just that the crazies, racists, and terrorists in the Republican party stopped being scared to come out in public around 2008 and even more in 2016.

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Nah, Reagan proved how far racism could destroy things long before that.

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From an outsiders perspective if you really want a catalyst point I always look to the failure of the Union to subject the slaver capitalists of the Confederacy to Nuremberg style trials for sedition and treason.

Instead there was compromise and appeasement. The problem was swept under the rug.

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There’s a lot of truth in this. The elites at the top of the South weren’t rooted out after their civil war and all of the bullshit going on in US politics today is a direct consequences of that failure.

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Nah, that shit was already bubbling over during the Revolutionary War. Remember the Three Fifths Compromise? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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We can go back further, but that’s where I put my finger on the map.

Fox News was a conservative news outlet until then. Overnight they went batshit crazy.

Between them and social media, we spiraled down into where we’re at now.

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I think it was even earlier… 9/11 really broke the safety of America (and even the “western” world) and pushed so many people down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Social media amplified this fear and brought them together giving them power.

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My head canon is that the fixed point event in earth history is that humanity should have ended in nuclear war with the cuba crisis and the timeline has been unravelling ever since.

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