Until the 1950s the President had to go to Congress to get permission to declare war, during my lifetime none of the wars since has Congress had any say about going into war, that risked the lives of That also affected us when we got back, and for family and friends of everyone who served with how we were changed. So much for the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The 1970s. Disco music and silly Me Generation, and the sold popularity of Cocaine, including the government helping spread it and other drugs though the minority population, weakening the growing civil right movement.

Should I mention going off the gold stanard in backing out money

In the 1980s the Junk Bond gaining control of Corporations, to sell off assets, and changing financing of employees retirement plans from stocks and bonds to annuities, then the annuities going bankrupt, leaving retiring workers with none of their retirement funds.

This was also the beginning of the move to destroy unions. The government started its attack on unions for the air traffic control people.

Just a few things that come to my mind.
Going from the non-profit hospital to for profit hospitals that cost more but do not provide better medical care becoming the number one reason for personal bankruptcy.

How about creating the most expensive miliary in the world that has not won a war in my lifetime. A military that cannot show in their books where hundreds of billions of the money went. Our Defense Department i the most corrupt part of our
Government.