Exactly, the year before actually when Bush stole the election from Gore. To me that marks the start of the decline of the US.

Really though Reagan kicked it all off but the actual collapse started in 2000.

Alternative pitch, your politics were under developed in that era - and a lot of people in the mainstream culture were (through things like TV, an uncritical education system, and a lack of information) able to be politically inactive, and fairly unaware.

Because really you should have been sus on America and all the colonial countries and their parent countries for a long long time now.

Sadly, Aotearoa has gone down the populist right-wing path with Luxon and his merry band of cunts

I hope everyone who voted for National at the last election suffers a week of uncontrollable dribbling shits and learn to be better people