What was the WORST era in America?

[Gringo]

In the last 100 years or so

[Ashes]

1. My grandparents were marks in the depression

the people would hop off the train and know there would be sandwiches waiting for them. Had to be the worst time yet. No shelters, soup lines a mile long........

[Champion Jack]

2. 1860 ---1866

[youngred]

3. depends on how you define worst

for whom, about what, for the country as a whole, the power structure, etc

[Ashes]

4. Interesting response

I just took it to mean for the country (and, therefore all the people in it) at the time.
Any time of war would have been the worst, though. WW1 WW2 Korean, Vietnam.

[lpbk2713]

5. The Nixon/Viet Nam Era........

...... I learned to be skeptical of authority ever since.

[stimbox]

6. easy

The Raygun/Bush years...
Feelings of helplessness and impending sense of doom.
Either that or it was just my teenage angst.

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. The worst is now

We had wars before, as many of these eras include.

We have had economic disasters before.

But (with the possible exception of 1860 - 1866), the country never ceased to be America, and while people might have had issues with governmental policies, and even corruption to some extent, there was never so much overwhelming evidence of the federal government itself being an actual ENEMY of all the people as there is right now.

[leftyandproud]

8. this era

dubya is BANKRUPTING the government...The 2001-04 era will go down in the history books for this.