Early seventies was a turning point in history

Look what happened in the early seventies:

• Cancellation of the molten-salt reactor
• Cancellation of the NERVA ( nuclear thermal rocket)
• End of Apollo, scrapping of the Saturn V rocket
• The end of the gold standard.  Inflation spiked shortly afterward.
• Arab Oil Embargo
• Watergate and resignation of President Nixon
• Until 1973, homosexuality was considered a mental disorder.
• Roe v Wade decided in 1973
• End of  the Vietnam War, South Vietnam collapses in 1975
• Beginning of systemic budget deficits

These are the events that I can recall, there are undoubtedly many more.  It is almost as if something in this country snapped back then, and is only getting worse.

Perhaps the roots of this can be traced back to the sixties or earlier.  However, whatever the cause, the events themselves heralded the decline that we witness to this very day.

Iran and North Korea are now threats to the United States.  Who'd a thought that would be possible back in 1973?