Just exactly when were the good old days in America? [View All]

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I ask this not to be provocative, but because it really is a very vexing question with (IMO) no real clear answer.

A lot of liberals like to romanticize the period from about c.1945-c.1965 as a sort of Golden Age with a thriving middle class, strong labor unions, job security and upward mobility; while treating as an afterthought this era's existence of Jim Crow, overt and legalized gender discrimination, as well as anti-Semitism, homophobia and even anti-Catholicism being accepted parts of American life. The filmmaker Michael Moore has a real tendency to do this, I have noticed.

But what era would you really categorize--if any--as the good old days in US history?