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Yeah, this is a common fascist recruitment tactic. "The world has gone to shit, things were better before."
This is the call to return to the golden past, a perfect time before "they" took it away from "us." In reality, as you point out, that golden past never existed. However, once people have it framed in their minds that their chance at utopia was "taken" from them, there's almost nothing they don't feel justified in doing to take it back.
Well, there was a time when people could afford housing. That's gone now. The past definitely had some great things that have been taken away from us.
That was a very limited boon made possible off of the backs of the cumulative dead of several modern wars. Prior to that, the notion of "home ownership" wasn't even a thing for the most part.
The median rent price in the US has not gone down in 80 years.
Then we must start WW3 then
There was also a time where we killed someone who disagreed with us instead of being sad about it on the Internet too.