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The music, TV and films were certainly better then. But many aspects of US politics (both domestic and foreign) were not: bombing Central America and Grenada, the War on Drugs that led to a massive increase in the incarceration rate (and an excuse to intervene in Colombia and Peru in particular), the rise of puritanism both on the Left (radical feminism) and the Right (Christian conservatism - in particular, the hounding of Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky affair).
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