• Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    2 hours ago

    I agree with this take. Capitalism basically stumbled into a successful several decades during and after the fall of the USSR; that was seen as the result of American exceptionalism and an inherent property of the society.

    There’s also the aspect of reaction trying to force things back to “the way they were” in some perceived idyllic past.