When exactly did America stop being great and when will it start again?

It's a subjective question anyone would have a different answer to. As for myself: on the one hand, I probably could try to weave a narrative of decline [i]in certain important respects[/i] during the post-WWII era; on the other, it is a bit hard sometimes even to empathize with the cause of the 1776 revolutionaries if you're operating with a half-accurate account of what led up to all of that.

In my own lifetime, I will say that the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 marked a little-spoken-of ominous turning point.