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Peak of America in your lifetime?
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:52 pm
I really wanna gage it because we have different generations on here with different lived experiences, and I’d like to know from your point of view what you see as the peak of America in your lifetime (I’m an optimist so I hope the pendulum swings back to better time)
For me I’d say late 90s - 9/10/2001. It just seemed like there was so much more positivity as we headed into the new millennium. Little did we know.
I was born in 1992, late millennial. I have unique privilege of earliest childhood in a generation not reliant on technology and everything being connected via internet access, and then seeing it evolve into our lives and change the world for better or worse. I also am old enough to be aware of the world pre and post 9/11. Take somebody only 5 years younger than myself and their entire lived experience was in the aftermath of the internet/smart phone revolution, or not acutely aware of what a pre 9/11 world was.
For me I’d say late 90s - 9/10/2001. It just seemed like there was so much more positivity as we headed into the new millennium. Little did we know.
I was born in 1992, late millennial. I have unique privilege of earliest childhood in a generation not reliant on technology and everything being connected via internet access, and then seeing it evolve into our lives and change the world for better or worse. I also am old enough to be aware of the world pre and post 9/11. Take somebody only 5 years younger than myself and their entire lived experience was in the aftermath of the internet/smart phone revolution, or not acutely aware of what a pre 9/11 world was.
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Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:52 pm to Godzilla jr
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:53 pm to Godzilla jr
Bombing Iran.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:53 pm to Godzilla jr
Mid 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union was absolutely the peak of the United States. We had so much potential in front of us and we blew it.
This post was edited on 4/20/26 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:55 pm to Godzilla jr
From about 1989 til 9/11/01 was America’s peak.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:55 pm to mule74
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Mid 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union was absolutely the peak of the United States.
Metallica playing a concert in Moscow was epic
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:58 pm to CrystalPreserves
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From about 1984 til 9/11/01 was America’s peak.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 12:59 pm to Godzilla jr
Late 80s to mid 90s. 
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:00 pm to Bunk Moreland
Had the VH 1984 tape and played it on the way to school senior year in my 79 Camaro.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:01 pm to Godzilla jr
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For me I’d say late 90s - 9/10/2001. It just seemed like there was so much more positivity as we headed into the new millennium. Little did we know.
I was born in 1989, late millennial. I agree here.
I remember being super confused on 9/11 as I had never heard of WTC. The togetherness and America frick yea vibe of those years after 9/11 won't repeat.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:02 pm to Godzilla jr
The peak of America in my lifetime took place on July 4, 1976 when President Ford rang the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall in Philadelphia at 2:00 that afternoon. It was a good day to be an American. All the events and hoopla leading up to the Bicentennial Celebration just made you feel good.
(It was also before Jimmy Carter took office and started us on this long decline based on Liberal/Leftist ideology and quashed the idea of American exceptionalism. There have been two presidents since then who have made Carter actually look somewhat competent by comparison.)
(It was also before Jimmy Carter took office and started us on this long decline based on Liberal/Leftist ideology and quashed the idea of American exceptionalism. There have been two presidents since then who have made Carter actually look somewhat competent by comparison.)
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:02 pm to Godzilla jr
80s
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:09 pm to Godzilla jr
This was before my time, and just a silly song, but it represents a much better time than what we have now.
As for my lifetime? I'd pick anytime from the 70's/80's/90's. (The Carter years sucked, though).
As for my lifetime? I'd pick anytime from the 70's/80's/90's. (The Carter years sucked, though).
This post was edited on 4/20/26 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:09 pm to Godzilla jr
I feel like being in HS in the mid-late 90's was peak life.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:10 pm to Godzilla jr
Mid 90s to 9/10/01 for me
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:13 pm to Godzilla jr
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:14 pm to Godzilla jr
My favorite 10 year period was 1965 - 1975. It was the time of classic rock music, the rise of hippies, lots of new illegal drugs, free sex with birth control pills and roe v. wade, race riots, de-segregation of schools, the Vietnam War. It was like living in a movie. Waking up and wondering: 'What the hell is gonna happen next?'
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:16 pm to mule74
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Mid 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union was absolutely the peak of the United States. We had so much potential in front of us and we blew it.
Unfortunately, at that time, we elected a charming kleptocrat as President (FTR, I place a lot of the blame upon the Republicans/GHW Bush for that), which served to open the eyes of too many people as to what a profitable industry being involved in DC politics could be. And there has been no turning back from it, absent a couple of speed bumps.
This post was edited on 4/20/26 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 4/20/26 at 1:25 pm to Godzilla jr
Easy answer. I've made many posts about it here already. 1984.
I never would have dreamed that just 40 short years later America would be.....this....
I never would have dreamed that just 40 short years later America would be.....this....
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