I do know watching Mad Men made me viscerally nostalgic, and I’m a ‘66 model. I think even as late as 1998 would be a decent restore point. I didn’t feel the perpetual agitation set in until the Bush-Gore SCOTUS war.
I’m looking forward to the future rather than the past...
ISAIAH 43:18-19
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
I think that the Bush/Gore was the first time in a while that the democrats failed to steal an election. And they were mad about it. Not that Dubya wan an angel, but compared to Gore, well, dirt is an angel compared to him.
Anyway, I got my first real red-pilling around 1995 when I was back in school. I decided that the days of getting by on a high school and trade school degrees weren't enough - that I needed college. So I started taking classes at the Cleveland State University. What a rude awakening. What they were teaching - it was completely and utterly communist propaganda. How they got away with it, I don't know.
Anyway, about the same time, I read 'Atlas Shrugged' which introduced me to the ways of the deep state left. Rand's religious position notwithstanding, I saw much of what was in that book taking place in real time. The world was changing, and changing fast even then. And I didn't like it.
Reagan got a ton of blowback from the rats: 1. waste, fraud, and abuse ($600 toilet seat days) allegations against his build up of the military (remember his goal of 600 ship navy?). 2. Iran-contra. He was forced to testify. 3. Assassination attempt and then the drumbeat that he was unfit for office. 4. Voodoo economics (thanks to GHWBush) and ridicule on trickle - down economics. 5. The “star-wars” ridicule which is why we don’t have missile defense to this day. 6. The drumbeat that Reagan was starting WWIII when he told the Soviets to shove it at Reykjavik. 7. There’s a ton more. But I’m sure you get my point that the rats have been at this a long time. Probably since the socialist and anarchist agitation in the 1890s. Possibly since the Civil War when Lincoln was continually attacked.
As I think about, last time there was even a semblance of civility was when George Washington was president. Seriously. I’m not just being a smart aleck.