Ok! So that is you admitting you're too young to even know when America WAS great! Freaking snowflake/Gen-Z/Gen-y! Your experience counts for ZIP! baby child!
Exactly! Irt was Much earlier than then! The decline started n the '70s; 'probably after Nixon floated the petrodollar.
Irt=it. (digital problem! Fingers hit the wrong keys).
Uou misspelled BUTT