Originally Posted by jackmountain
Good argument for those decades being the golden years of the United States. 1989 and the end of the Cold War is IMHO the turning point. Seems like the 90’s is where we started going backwards. No communist enemy for Democracy to champion over any longer. Early 90’s brought the crack plague, the militarization of Law Enforcement, the beginnings of “diversity” as a virtue, racialization of pretty much every facet of life, acceptance of LGBTQ idiocy etc…. The 90’s brought on the beginning of the end of the great experiment.

Looks like it’s China’s time again. Not long ago Britain, Germany and France were “world powers”.


There may be something to the end of the cold war being the start of some of our current problems. I think it was Bismarck that said a nation must always have an enemy or its people are going to turn on themselves