Thanks to America’s right wing, we’ve entered the Great Regression, writes David Rothkopf.
History may look back at the period in which we are living and call it The Great Regression. It is a time in which on issue after issue, we are seeing decades and sometimes centuries ofIf the term regression feels too academic, we may just as easily call it the Great Leap Backwards. If it continues at its current pace, it may end up being known as the American Dark Ages…or worse, to borrow from another historical saga, the Decline and Fall of the United States.
We have seldom seen anything like this before in our country’s history. One example might be that in the wake of the Civil War, Reconstruction sawthroughout what had been Confederate states to, wherever possible, restore the old order and to once again put down newly freed Blacks in the South. More recently, thanks to a concerted campaign by America’s right wing, sometimes with the help of centrists from both U.S. political parties, we have watched as a long list of the signature milestones of American social advancement in the post WWII era have been reversed, undone or blunted.
The Supreme Court, now one of the most active, pernicious agents of this period of anti-progress, demonstrated this again on Friday by, for the first time in history,that had been granted to the people, the right of a woman to control her own body.
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