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[QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2747874, member: 8028"]
It can only be judged in the rear view mirror.
Couple of small examples:
In 1985, I paid about 76 cents for a gallon of gas, I made about 10 bucks an hour at a delivery job, and my first car cost 800 bucks and still had 50,000 or so miles of life left in it.  Also, pretty much any reasonably hard working high school grad could get a blue collar job making 15 or 20 bucks an hour (and much more in some cases).
Today?  Using .gov CPI (133% inflation), here are those same numbers:
Gas - 1.77 per gallon.
Wage - 23.30 
Car - $1,864.
Basic HS Grad Job - $34,950 - $46,600.

You'll notice the following:  Gas has gone up a lot.  Wages for a delivery job have declined greatly.  Used cars with good life have gone up dramatically.  HS grad pay has declined substantially.

Economically, this country has declined rapidly in the last 30 years.  Hard for me to fathom how anybody disputes that.

Regarding civil liberties, the Patriot Act was the beginning of the end.  Snowden showed us that the agencies don't care about your Constitutional rights.  Some people cared.  Most didn't.  And nothing changed.

It's all wrapping up.  Decency and society are fading.
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