How and when exactly did America make the paradigm shift from freedom loving and enlightened republic it used to be to...

How and when exactly did America make the paradigm shift from freedom loving and enlightened republic it used to be to the evil empire it is today?

4th July, 1776

Ayyyy

1950 objectively, when we started snuffing out anything that sounded even remotely commie.

1917

when corruption, federal fiefdoms, dominance of the banks and laws for the sake of laws became a thing, so perhaps starting late 30s but only starting to collapse in the 70s.

Pretty much the late 1890s early 1900s when we started to play our hand in imperialism and BTFO'd the remains of the Spanish Empire. Such is the price of relevance.

2004, after they found no WMD in the aftermath of Saddam's capture

1945

from the expansion beyond the 13 colonies

Gonna go with this

also someone please get me the fuck out of here

Cold War. To defeat the Russians you have to become something like them. Although calling the us an "evil empire" is a bit of a stretch and implies we are cunning enough to have some overarching plan of global domination, when in reality we largely act out of emotion and a desire to protect our interests (we gained literally nothing by invading Afghanistan, nothing at all).

When they found out they can into shart in mart.

>T. Brainwashed

It isn't started yet. the us could become a evil state like Russia if a Putin's cocksucker tramp will be elected.

>(we gained literally nothing by invading Afghanistan, nothing at all).
No, but our greatest Ally gained a lot :^)

I'm going with "the administration of Richard Nixon".
Possibly "when Kennedy was assassinated", depending on if the conspiracy theories are accurate or not.

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When they went looking for foreign dragons to slay.

Gonna go with that desu

The day they went full retard and elected an actor to be president

lol @ america haturz

woodrow wilson is the reason for that

america before wilson was paradise

Lad it's worse everywhere else. Or at least not better.

Take us for example, our free speech is a joke, and we have no right to bear arms. Also the coppers can enter a home without a warrant if they feel like it.

>Russians calling anyone else brainwashed
wew. He's right. The US did everything it could to contain the USSR, a lot of which was in hindsight bad decisions for the countries in question.

to be fair this is just human nature anyway so anything that pretends to change that is a sham. most people doesnt really care about ABERRATIONS as long as they're done by an authority figure because authority defines what's right or wrong

the thing about human nature is, atm, its negative aspects are being enhanced and exploited by the media. if the masses could learn how social engineering works then that'd be a real change because they'd see it when they attempt to do it to them, that'd be fun to see tbH

Washington actually refered to America as "an empire state" the empire state building is named after that.

Post-WW2.
Cold War transformed them in a paranoid and agressive nation and they let themselves be corrupted by unmatched power after USSR collapsed.
The irony is they beat Communist regimes just to be corrupted by neocon kikes (who are ex-trotskyists).

I still think they can come back to their roots but it will probably implies Civil War to clean the mess, just like in Europe.