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What's with all this nostalgia? Like the U.S. was a much better or easier place to live in?
I find the idea that the government stayed out of your business, and people were great and upstanding citizens completely laughable. This is the fairy tale that usually starts with "back in the good ol' days." Get over it, it's total bullshit - America was never a paradisical libertarian dream. Shit was fucked up, still is, and will be.

I just have concluded that people will complain about anything and everything, people just whine. "Give us roads, stoplights, schools, clean water blah blah blah." Let the free market control water, schools, stoplights, bridges, fix potholes, create security, labor laws and everything else...all our problems would be solved instantly because we would no longer have any taxes.

Of course, one bogey man would be replaced by another.