QUESTION for older Pedes: What was the best decade for America and why?
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Dad said the Fifties really were a special time and I believe him. The 50s really ended in the mid Sixties when the hippies, LSD and Commies were ascendant.
The 80s were not bad. We were still White; America was safe - no need to lock doors, high trust still, Commies were subdued, but it didn't last unfortunately. GHWB was an evil fuck and his administration marked the turning of the tide.
I just miss honest media. Or media that at least pretended to be impartial. 😕
It was hard to get past the gatekeepers but once past, you could get something resembling fairness. That all changed with the introduction of something called "Advocacy Journalism" in the early 90s.
I worked as a columnist for a very large university's daily paper in the 90s. Even opinion pieces required three verifiable sources to make claims. THREE VERIFIABLE SOURCES.
Today's "reporting" is literally gossip and tattle-taling.
70 80 90 for me.
Gonna get s different answer from everyone. Most people feel it was the one they were a child in. With that said, the fifties and the 80s were pretty great. Gen X folks were the last generation to experience lots of freedom growing up. Been downhill in regards to personal liberties ever since.
I think that may be true. I’m happy to grow up when I did. I was born in the mid 90’s. So I experienced the first half of my life living with parents who spent lavishly and bought a huge, 5 bedroom house. Then we lost it all during the financial crisis of ‘08 and moved into an old house with one bathroom in the ghetto where people would try to break in. It was really sobering for me, as a young person, to go through that and learn from their frivolity. It made me more responsible, conservative, etc.
They didn’t seem to learn as much as I did from it. Still voting Democrat. I think that your circumstance when young can absolutely set your political ideals when older.
This sucks to know, but ANY DECADE in America that wasn't pre-1866 has probably been tainted by communism in some way, at least a little bit. Something for all of us to ponder and research. When did communism come to America? Dig deep.
The 1780's. We forged a Republic of Freedom and Liberty that lasted 240 years.
1980s
1780s, 1880s, 1980s Hard men made good timss.
80's. We finally broke out of the self-induced stigma of Vietnam; we reinvigorated our conventional military and set the stage for the collapse of the Soviet Union; we returned to space in a meaningful way; it was cool to be American again; it was okay to be a capitalist again.
Then we managed to piss it all away. Good times make for soft people.
80s
1780s - We got what we fought and died for.