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Back when we justified foreign wars with Domino theory and it must be true because Walter Cronkite would never repeat something that wasn't a rigorously validated fact?

Or maybe 20ish years before that when we violently restructured the government or Iran at the behest of supposed allies?

Or how about when we sold our industry overseas because a steel mill who's pollution we can't control on the other side of the world is better than one in Ohio?

It boggles the mind that people cannot grasp that the sum total of bad and shortsighted decisions of the past are what created the present conditions.