1945-1973: The Peak of America?

[LBJ Revivalist]

I personally think the post war era, either extending from 1945-1964 or from 1945-1973 depending on how you look at it, was the peak of America, economically, culturally and in terms of foreign affairs.

When do you think the peak of America was?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

No, America has never recovered from the disasters of the Roosevelt era. It's been all downhill since 1945.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Peak of America would be the Hamilton administration (1789-1797).

[War on Want]

No, America has never recovered from the disasters of the Roosevelt era. It's been all downhill since 1945.

When do you think America's peak was?

[LBJ Revivalist]

No, America has never recovered from the disasters of the Roosevelt era. It's been all downhill since 1945.

You mean so coming out of World War II as the world's most powerful, feared and respected nation and knowing economic prosperity for over nearly 30 years was a bad thing?

[dead0man]

No, America has never recovered from the disasters of the Roosevelt era. It's been all downhill since 1945.

When do you think America's peak was?

17 Sep 1787

[Boris]

1991-2001

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

No, America has never recovered from the disasters of the Roosevelt era. It's been all downhill since 1945.

You mean so coming out of World War II as the world's most powerful, feared and respected nation and knowing economic prosperity for over nearly 30 years was a bad thing?

You mean coming out as a centralized, fascistic warmongering state dominated by the military-industrial complex, experiencing a rapid decline in individual rights and freedoms, and massive growth in government and corporate power, engineered by the Federal Reserve and an unstable artificial economic system?

[RosettaStoned]

1991-2001

The correct answer.

[Хahar 🤔]

Nostalgia is bad.

[Lief 🗽]

Yes, it was the "Golden Age of Capitalism" and the only period in United States history when your average American wasn't destitute.

[Boris]

1991-2001

The correct answer.

your display name is from 1996, naturally

[RI]

I still believe the best is yet to come.

[Sam Spade]

Functionally, I believe the circumstances that America found itself in at the end of WWII should have led to a much longer period of world domination than actually happened.  But the actual circumstances themselves were more due to luck and good planning rather than skill.

So, yes, it probably was the peak of America - though I would place the end at 1971.  And the beginning at 1949.

Truth be told, we still dominate the world, by quite a good bit.  But that's on the path to ending fairly soon, probably sooner than we think.  And nearly all of it has to do with the policies that were put in place during the "peak" period (or right before).

[paul718]

The mid-80s to the mid-2000s.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

When he was around:

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Functionally, I believe the circumstances that America found itself in at the end of WWII should have led to a much longer period of world domination than actually happened.  But the actual circumstances themselves were more due to luck and good planning rather than skill.

So, yes, it probably was the peak of America - though I would place the end at 1971.  And the beginning at 1949.

Truth be told, we still dominate the world, by quite a good bit.  But that's on the path to ending fairly soon, probably sooner than we think.  And nearly all of it has to do with the policies that were put in place during the "peak" period (or right before).

You speak as if that is a bad thing...

Otherwise, I would go along with that. At least from an economic point of view.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

1991-2001

This.

Yes, it was the "Golden Age of Capitalism" and the only period in United States history when your average American wasn't destitute.

Oh, if we speak about 'Golden Age' like an age of domination then I wonder whether that would be the '90s or the 2000s. Not sure because the 2000s have been the showing raise of super-powers' state-leaded capitalism, like Russia and China, while the '90s were more free from these big states, but more regulated than the 2000s in West, dunno then...

Truth be told, we still dominate the world, by quite a good bit.  But that's on the path to ending fairly soon, probably sooner than we think.  And nearly all of it has to do with the policies that were put in place during the "peak" period (or right before).

No, you dominated the world during the '90s, you're still the first, but you no more dominate.

[opebo]

Nostalgia is bad.

That may be so, psychologically speaking, but it doesn't change the fact that the past was better.

[k-onmmunist]

No, America has never recovered from the disasters of the Roosevelt era. It's been all downhill since 1945.

[Хahar 🤔]

No, America has never recovered from the disasters of the Roosevelt era. It's been all downhill since 1945.

Quite the original thinker you are.

[The Mikado]

1991-2001

^^^

Hate to be a bandwagoner, but this is the correct answer.

[Mint]

1991-2001

^^^

Hate to be a bandwagoner, but this is the correct answer.

I don't think even with my love for that decade. We saw some gains but in real terms wages, healthcare, etc. have been in pretty noticeable decline since the '70s. I'd say OP's time frame is essentially correct.

[Scam of God]

When he was around:

Gross.

[Sam Spade]

Functionally, I believe the circumstances that America found itself in at the end of WWII should have led to a much longer period of world domination than actually happened.  But the actual circumstances themselves were more due to luck and good planning rather than skill.

So, yes, it probably was the peak of America - though I would place the end at 1971.  And the beginning at 1949.

Truth be told, we still dominate the world, by quite a good bit.  But that's on the path to ending fairly soon, probably sooner than we think.  And nearly all of it has to do with the policies that were put in place during the "peak" period (or right before).

You speak as if that is a bad thing...

Otherwise, I would go along with that. At least from an economic point of view.

Well, military-wise, one might note that we are probably still at the peak of America and have been since the Berlin Wall fell.  Unless you want to consider the period after WWII when America had the bomb and the Soviets didn't "the peak", but I don't.

Culture-wise, the argument is stronger for the 1920-1960 period in my book.

But anyways, I'm sticking with economics - it has more impact on the country at large.

One might note that the 1991-2001 period people keep talking about (and I would put it at 1985-2000 more accurately) was but a shell of the earlier period.  America simply didn't have the same "power" as it did in 1949 in the world.  Except for military-wise.