Opinion of the 1990s

[TDAS04]

I miss them.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Seemed great at the time, and I have some personal nostalgia for them, but it's hard to honestly deny that they were a ticking time bomb socially, politically, and economically speaking. Horrible Decade.

[Sumner 1868]

Wasted years. The United States should have had a real "peace dividend" of social improvements after the Soviets evaporated, and the West could have drifted at least somewhat in a more peaceful direction in world affairs. Instead neoliberalism was accelerated beyond control.

[RINO Tom]

I'll keep it lighter than our previous two posters and reflect more on things like my personal life, what TV shows were on, my school experience, etc.: Freedom Decade.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I was born in 2001, so I didn't experience it firsthand. Horrible Politics, Freedom Everything Else, from the look of it.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Were mostly of good times, but the economic conditions which allowed continued outsourcing of jobs, put the country in peril and allowed deregulation at the end of the decade and cause the 2002 and 2008 collapse.

[Goldwater]

The best decade in terms of video games.

[Vosem]

Not unambiguously a Freedom Decade, considering most of my family was living in Russia at the time, but in the West, probably the best decade in terms of both culture and politics yet recorded. Much like the 1790s were a peek into the future of the 19th century, very likely a peek into the future of the 21st century.

[RFayette]

The best decade in terms of video games.

N64, baby!

[TDAS04]

The best decade in terms of video games.

N64, baby!

I played with Super Nintendo quite a bit.  That might have been before your time.

[Modernity has failed us]

Being born was cool I guess

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Garbage.

Being born was cool I guess

Depraved spawn of Millennials and Gen Z-ers? You've made my case!

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Ah, the decade where Quentin Tarantino was considered America's biggest aesthetic revolutionary.

[Beet]

The peak of American influence and power, and the peak of the influence of political and economic liberalism, extending the decade to the mid-2000s. It may be looked at as a sort of Belle Epoque in 50 years.

[SoLongAtlas]

Great economically, a lot of mistakes on an international level, the last period of relative peace and sustained growth without overwhelming political rancor, although it did exist, and Clinton's scandals didn't help. Also, N64, boom boxes, etc.

[dead0man]

I graduated HS in 91, so I have a strong favorable bias (or nonsensical hatred) to most things from the decade.  Even Zima (not really).  I do especially enjoy the cars, the comedians and the music...oh and the fashion I guess.  I still dress the same.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Freedom Decade (tech advances=good). Also I was born in the 90s.

[KingSweden]

The best decade (also I was born in 1990)

[Mr. Reactionary]

The peak of American influence and power, and the peak of the influence of political and economic liberalism, extending the decade to the mid-2000s. It may be looked at as a sort of Belle Epoque in 50 years.

This. Pax americana.

[fhtagn]

The best decade (also I was born in 1990 1991)

[Blue3]

Probably one of the best decades for humans in world history.

[Lechasseur]

Freedom Decade