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speak easy

(11,521 posts)
Thu May 22, 2025, 09:19 AM Thursday

The Best Years of Our Lives.

Me: 1993 - 2000
Y not 1960s?
(really)

The worst?
Krasnov is making a bull run on 2001-08.

Summary? Thank you Bill and Hillary.

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hlthe2b

(109,895 posts)
2. Well, some incredibly music came out of the late 60s and civil rights, but assassinations, Vietnam...
Thu May 22, 2025, 09:28 AM
Thursday

my then very young memory is still burned with those images.

Every other year/decade is relative IMHO until you get to the Trump years--the start and ongoing demise of democracy...

Jit423

(1,360 posts)
3. No question that the best years of this nation were under Bill and Hillary Clinton. Feel good, compassionate times for
Thu May 22, 2025, 09:28 AM
Thursday

more people. No time has ever been perfect but for me and my extensive family, the years of the Clinton administrations and the couple of years immediately following were pretty good times. The one issue I had with those times was RWanda.
No other time came close until Obama was elected. The world was kinder and more compassionate under those two Presidents...even if it were only a feeling.

The very worst times were under Reagan and Trump. We became the nation of unrestrained hate.

Jit423

(1,360 posts)
4. Al or most ships were rising when Bill and Hill were at the helm.
Thu May 22, 2025, 07:44 PM
Thursday

Nothing but sinking under Trump's two terms. Biden started us rising again only to have Trump come in and tie us to cement bricks. We are almost a lost cause.

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