When was America great ?

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(07-07-2023, 04:44 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I've given this quite a bot of thought over the years actually, and have come to the current conclusion.

In many ways, America was great in the 1950s post-Korea until JFK's assassination in November 1963. Booming economy, low crime, strong family nucleus across all races, and last but not least people had way more respect for themselves and each other. Then society in general started to go to shit since JFK which I believe there is a correlation with the massive increase of distrust of government (rightfully so) and the norms of society breaking down. The only thing that kept this era from being the greatest era in American history was the legalized segregation and racism.

In other ways, the 1990s was the last time America was 'great'. It was pre 9-11, pre mass shootings, nation wasn't divided that like it is now. Movies and music of all genres was great, arguably at their peak from Country to Rap to Rock. No cell phones for kids keeping their heads into every waking hour (which I see as a problem with todays youth). It was a time when patience paid off waiting for that nak.. nature pic to slowly download via the 56k modem on AOL. Great times.

As an outsider (but attached to the US), this is what I would say as well: pre 9-11, things were awesome. Then Bush's reign had things start to slip, then once Obama came on board, he had to fix the problems started by W AND had to face ridiculously, dinosauric backlash from his haters, which has only grown from then and has been transferred to the entire party of Obama.

Basically, this reads as, "once someone was elected that almost half the country hated, simply because of his skin colour, that's when things began to devolve to where we are today."