since 1960s prosperity, liberty, education, health care and communication up; nuclear bombs, pollution and discrimination down; resource levels rising not falling. No sane person would exchange 2024 for conditions of 1960s. Only demagogues (esp. Trump) pretend USA getting worse.
Neither my uncle nor my father would recognize the version of America that we have today. We've become a nation of chronic illness, of violence, of loneliness, depression, and division, and poverty. Our great cities are becoming tent encampments, modern-day Hoovervilles filled with undocumented immigrants and dispossessed Americans and people living in their cars, plagued by mental illness and addiction and despair.