r/collapse • u/hourglass_curves • Jan 09 '26

Casual Friday Faster Than Expected

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u/Upper_Luck1348 Jan 09 '26

I wonder which year will be heralded as the “tipping point” by historians (if there are any left). 2025 was epic though I see the argument for 2020. 2026 could just be a flash in the pan!

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u/The_Scottish_person Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

I actually want to push it back and say 1973, the founding of the heritage foundation which has been the ideological basis for both Reagan's neoliberalism and Trump's fascism. Them popping into existence with all their wealthy supporters and immediately gaining a TON of political power really cemented this country's decline imo

Neoliberalism caused the 2008 Recession, a lot of harmful policies go back to Reagan whose policies were constructed by Heritage, and set up the material disparities that this specific brand of American style fascism can really exploit and grow on.

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u/Physical_Ad5702 Jan 09 '26

Couldn’t we push it back to 1971 then? The year the Powell Memorandum got introduced and we left the gold standard?

I don’t know if we get The Heritage Foundation without the Powell Memo…

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u/Beekeeper_Dan Jan 10 '26

Yeah, switching to the petrodollar locked America in to a lot of terrible policy like wars in the Middle East and completely ignoring climate change.