how did this stuff feel in the 90s and before?

1984-09/11/2001 was the best time to be alive in human history.

News didn't spread as quickly as it does now. Most families talked about current events at the dinner table but families seemed more homogeneous then.

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1975-1985 was the best time in America. 1985-2000 was ok but it all went downhill after 2000.

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I disagree and I was in college in '75.

The Post WWII 40s and 50s and even early 60s were great.

1965, twenty years after the end of WWII and deep into the Cold War is when things started to fall apart. It's when certain members of the so-called Silent Generation emerged ... Jane Fonda, Abby Hoffman, the Black Panthers, et al .... and it's when everyone had to have a college degree, so the brainwashing was in full force.

Vietnam escalated ... Feminism and Gloria Steihem (sp) and draft dodging by the so called Silent Generation.

Silent Generation? It was another lie. It was like calling this current generation the Stoic Generation. A lie.

1980 to the internet was peak Earth.

Starting in the 80’s you had CNN (old CNN was great) start the 24/7 news. The Big 3 of course had their evening 1/2 hour newscasts as they have forever.

Even with CNN however back in those days it seemed like you had a full 24 hours to absorb the previous day’s news cycle. News also largely still felt like news back then and you at least had the impression most of the time they were giving the viewer enough credit to make up his/her own mind. In retrospect, I’m sure media has always worked to drive a narrative but at least back then, they weren’t so obviously in your face about it.

Biggest thing (to me) with the taking off of the internet, social media, etc is there’s no longer an “observe/absorb/consider/cool down” period. Everything now is instant and of course instant reaction. Keeps things nice and stirred up on a daily basis.

Probably not a healthy thing for a society but that genie isn’t going back in the bottle.

Clinton got people pretty mad. Was heyday of talk radio.

The 90s are when the left’s social agenda was just coming into its own. Fortunately we had Rush Limbaugh to shine a light on these efforts. The overwhelming liberal bias of the MSM, spawned Fox News and MSNBC (it was actually a good network until 2006).

I'd venture to say it felt more peaceful because we were all blissfully ignorant to what all was happening behind the curtain and society couldn't air its every grievance with the world via social media.

Twitter et al gave voices to those who never had them before. Some have been beneficial and gotten a lot of good information out there; others have filled the world with garbage that creates friction.

You'd wake up in the morning and walk to the driveway to pick up the morning paper. Most cities had morning and afternoon papers. Some papers would have a liberal editorial board, some a conservative one - pick your poison.

Mostly the print media would give the news fairly straight and save opinion for the editorial page. There was a subtle liberal bias in a lt of print media, especially magazines like Time and Newsweek, but it was nothing like we see today.

News at 6 and 10 (thirty minutes). People weren't consumed by politics 24/7. We spent time outside with friends and family. Played ball, fished, hunted, watched movies and flipped through LPs at the record store. We'd go down to the Chattahoochie and build a pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight. We lived our lives and didn't scream at each other.

There weren’t so many Commies running around but they did have control of the government schools.

Their plan worked in spades.