RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/117417869296802659 REMINDER of, in no particular order, events that helped Carl Sagan’s “predict” USA’s decline in 1995: 1. Reaganism 2. Moral Majority 3. Right To Life bombings of abortion clinics 4. Bombing of MOVE housing activists 5. HIV/AIDS pandemic denial & demonization of LGBTQI 6. Blocked stem-cell research 7. Defunding of PBS, NEA & all federally funded “liberal arts” 8. ENGLISH ONLY 9. 1st Bush invasion of Iraq 10. Iran-Contragate 11. attacks on CDC, FDA, NIH 12. mass incarceration 13. crack babies