As I very clearly wrote, progress was fast in the 70's, and ideals about peace, democracy and human rights were on the rise.Progress being fast, clearly means things were better late 70's than early 70's.I also never claimed things were only sunshine and rainbows, only that things got better.You write like someone who did not experience the 70's, and is completely ignorant about the mentality of the 70's compared to the pragmatism that was before and came back very quickly after.I absolutely agree that after WW2 USA took a new role upon themselves, to act as global police, and they clearly got drunk on their own power.But there's a huge difference between the progress of the 70's, and the insane armament and undermining of workers unions, the poor and even democracy that Reagan began in the 80's. And the normalization in the White house of illegal practices with the Iran Contra, that had zero consequences for the administration.