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Also while people talk about partisan divide, that was the tail end of 15 years of domestic assasinations, bombings, and political kidnapping (e.g. the SLA).

My kids talk about how this is the worst the US has ever been, but I point out that there was a whole civil war and things were abysmal before that (overt genocide and slavery, child labor, political violence). And when the Baby Boomers were the “gen z” of the time, it was pretty selfish and shitty.