If you can explain why the banking situation was just as bad back then, I’d like to hear it. As I recall, the biggest banks in the country weren’t in jepoardy of being nationalized back then, with private equity holders being sqeezed out.
Memories aren’t perfect, but sometimes things WERE better in the past.
Well, maybe you would and maybe you wouldn't but my guess is that your mind is set and there's no possible explanation you'd ever be willing to accept.
In the meantime, I'm like most Americans. We're personally not as well of as we were say, last year, but our incomes are still rising and our wealth is still even higher than the peak we had in the dot-com boom.
If this is what we call "bad" the we're never going to see "good".