1950s, Golden Age America

AS LONG AS YOU ARE A STRAIGHT WHITE MAN.

Let's see... In the 50s America was at war with North Korea, Civil Rights were nonexistent, it would suck if you needed an organ transplant, women, people of color and homosexuals were treated as second class citizens, automobile safety was minimal, sexual crimes were not investigated, no cable TV or internet, pollution of all kinds that was ignored, drunk driving was tolerated, etc.

Those are some of the things off the top of my head. The 50s were not as wonderful as you think they were.

An era that would have been better if not for the events of 1871, 1913 and the actions of the Satanic Edomites that lead to illegal wars.

I thought this was funny about "Leave It To Beaver". This was written by someone on a forum:

"If Leave it to Beaver truly mirrored real life as it was back then, here's what the character descriptions might look like:

Ward Cleaver:
Alcoholic, workaholic, beats his sons with a belt. Bones his secretary on the side. His country club won't allow minorities or Jews to be members. The neighborhood where he bought his home is deed-restricted to white Anglo-Saxon protestant homeowners only. Drives drunk.

June Cleaver:
Pops prescription Nembutal (see Mother's Little Helper by the Rolling Stones), and has an unlimited refills script for amphetamine-based diet pills. Her woman's club membership restrictions mirror her husband's country club. Drives high.

Wally Cleaver:
Pretends to like girls because of what he faces from family, friends, church and community if he were to be outed.

Beaver Cleaver:
As the baby of the family, he's spoiled rotten. Wally resents him and makes his life as miserable as he can. Beaver has been regularly sexually abused by his pastor and little league coach since he was 5, but is afraid to say anything lest his abusers carry out their threats of killing his parents."

Best generation period

All this talk about how great the 1950's were...

it helps when you have the only functioning factories in the world because everyone else is destroyed in WW2.

When he was on the radio, Thom Hartmann used to say that the middle class in America was strongest in the 1770's and the 1970's.

Gilded Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel by historians in the 1920s who saw this interval of economic expansion as an era of materialistic excesses combined with political corruption.

It was a time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Western United States. As American wages grew much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, and industrialization demanded an increasing unskilled labor force, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants. The rapid expansion of industrialization led to real wage growth of 40% from 1860 to 1890 and spread across the increasing labor force. The average annual wage per industrial worker (including men, women, and children) rose from $380 in 1880 ($11,998 in 2023 dollars[1]) to $584 in 1890 ($19,126 in 2023 dollars[1]), a gain of 59%.[2] The Gilded Age was also an era of poverty,[3][4] especially in the South, and growing inequality, as millions of immigrants poured into the United States, and the high concentration of wealth became more visible and contentious.[5]