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Sometime back, I did a thread on making the most chaotic 1960's possible, where things were made more hectic and messy and bad things that could happen were proposed to happen, and bad things that did happen were made worse.

So let's take that to the 1970's. The 1970's as it existed was pretty hectic at times. Problems from the 60's still carried over, such as an increasingly militant gaggle of Left wing organizations which had gotten more extreme as their Flower power was bashed in the head with a police baton, and the Vietnam war was still going on. Nixon would be proven corrupt, and that revelation would lead to a major loss of faith in the government, and investigation in corruption and lying which eventually showed exposed the coups and espionage the CIA had carried out for years. Ford became President, was shot at twice, and later lost to the unknown Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, who oversaw an era of malaise. The 1970's saw heticness, chaos, price controls, economic downturn, and a national lack of faith over the nations problems, the corruption of government, and the failure of Vietnam and the New Frontier dream.

So how could the 1970's become messier and more chaotic.
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