In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product's and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.
Y'all have been going hard at Americanism for a minute now. I remember the beginning of the new world media thinking, "oh shit, there as obese and decrepit as us"