America was once the leading nation in the world, admired, praised, feared and imitated. It was once a safe haven for the world’s suffering and abandoned migrants and refugees. It remembered its roots then. During and after World War 2, the United States was a liberator and rebuilder of a destroyed Europe. It established the Nuremberg trials that convicted Nazi war criminals. America was a champion of human rights and dignity and was a strong voice for global justice at the United Nations. Since then, a once proud reputation has been in steep decline and, at present, is at an all-time low. How did it happen?
During World War 2, American citizens of Japanese descent were imprisoned in concentration camps. America used a nuclear weapon twice and began to leave its moral compass as it opposed the Soviet Union in the Cold War. In the late 1950s and 1960s, extreme right-wing Republicans like Sen. Joseph McCarthy changed America for the worst.
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