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no_hypocrisy

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13. 4-5 year intervals

Reply to EnergizedLib (Original post)

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 04:45 AM

Sep 4

From birth to the Cuban Missile Crisis and 1975 to when Reagan took over were halcyon years where there were relatively no stressful events in the country and the world, at least for me. And that's it. (But then again, I was up North, not in the Jim Crow South.)

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Were times ever saner in your life? [View all] EnergizedLib Sep 3 OP

1990s writerJT Sep 3 #1

I was a small child, born early '90s EnergizedLib Sep 3 #3

I mean I'd say no ITAL Sep 3 #2

Recommended. H2O Man Sep 3 #4

I was just thinking about how nuts things were in the '60s and early '70s. Ocelot II Sep 3 #5

Maybe not, but we've never had a ruskie asset in WH SheltieLover Sep 3 #6

Times were saner when Biden was president. At least there was some sanity from the Executive Office SharonAnn Sep 3 #7

The White House and the office of the President was saner EnergizedLib Sep 3 #8

Ya know...there has always been conflict FalloutShelter Sep 3 #9

I was born in the 50s edbermac Sep 3 #10

Born in 1950, I saw some horrible things in the 60s civil rights era, was beaten with walkingman Sep 4 #11

OMG the moon landing Skittles Sep 4 #15

yeah...you are "normal"...the rest of the world is... ret5hd Sep 4 #12

4-5 year intervals no_hypocrisy Sep 4 #13

I'm an Xennial (born in '77) róisín_dubh Sep 4 #14

The Election of '72 was my first political memory ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Sep 4 #16

The 90s, or between the Gulf War and September 11th, were nice. Tommy Carcetti Sep 4 #17