The effort to combat the decay/decline assertion ultimately boiled down to just expanding the year range in our hypothetical Quality of America Over Time line graph — the moment ironically becoming the best curve flattening feat ever achieved by an American — while pointing out that worse conditions do exist in countries the US has never competed with for preeminence at any point in time.
It's just ridiculous when refuting the claim of America in decline literally includes contrasting the blatant corruption of the presidency or 100,000 avoidable deaths against contracting cholera and being shot by a redcoat in the War of 1812. How do things look when we examine the last three decades?
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