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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll bite. Broadly, I'd take anytime before early 2000s (I distinctly view forever wars that started after 9/11 as NOT great) but in particular, 1960s- technical innovation, rigorous schools, low crime, civil rights, nuclear family still intact, low cost of living, cheap college. Very much admire President Kennedy and what he wanted for this country. [/quote]

That’s a very selective look back at a decade that witnessed an unpopular war that tore the country apart, political assasinations, racially motivated attacks against black people including the bombing of a church that killed children, when women couldn’t open up credit card accounts by themselves, and casual racism was acceptable pretty much everywhere, never mind the deeper racism of legal segregation that wasn’t overturned until later in the decade.

The 60s had great music and also it was an inspirational time of reckoning with our bigotry and misogyny as well as other faults of a nation that didn’t live up to its promise. But I doubt most women or people of color would ever want to return to that decade. Or even the young men who were called up to serve in a horrible conflict thousands of miles away. [/quote]

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