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What is it that has happened that has led to this reversal of rights, both here and in the US?
The far right realised that both systems depended on some sort of sense of honour and principle to work effectively; if those were ditched, they could be quickly and easily subverted. The left and centre, for all their sins, still have vestiges of principle. They didn't stand a fucking chance.
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America is so fucked up. What a terrible place to be a young person right now. It's like a race to the bottom.
What is it that has happened that has led to this reversal of rights, both here and in the US?
Does it all go back to an event that slowly started this? The economic crisis of the 2000s? The gulf wars?