Should add context from particular source of question, it it helps, was an American white supremacist/fascist doing the rounds on UK RW reactionary (posh twat) podcasts recently where they don't ever say what they mean but repeat the same disingenuous line of rhetorical questioning, starting with their fave jumpoff question there positioned as a "how far modern society has fallen in comparison to our completely totally innocent and superior ancestors?" Forcing a weird 'parental disapproval' dynamic where none exists. It's that framing I reject wholly
It falls in line with the current RW rationale in general. Since "make America great
again" became their slogan, most reasonable people have been asking the most logical question in response: when was American ever "great?" Because save for the straight, white men, most others in America have endured or are still enduring very overt struggles and difficulties that are only recently seeing any acknowledgment and attempts at fixing with substantial pushback from the RW. "Again" can only mean a time when straight, white men exclusively ran the show: segregation, the only immigrants being those straight, white men allow, gay marriage disallowed, a lower class that knows it place, a middle class content doing the heavy lifting, etc. "Again" only strikes fear into the rational people who've lived during a time when "great" was far from reality.
The wake up call will come when the current RW's staunchest supporters (the ignorant and uneducated) realize that they themselves fall into a bucket that "great again" relegates to a resource to keep the straight, white men in power, but beyond that are as disposable and deplorable as all those "great again" cares the least about.
