Politics aside the 80's were cool.
Music was cool, clothing styles cool (well except for those parachute pants I wore) and most importantly Liberalism was on the fringe.
Liberalism and PC is now the mainstream group think. Any objections or counterpoints to this group think and you are considered a bigot or worse.
Certainly, like another poster put it the 90's were the decade of greed more than any other. And what is wrong with making money?
I enjoyed quadrupling my families standard of living in the 90's.
One problem that did haunt the 80's was too much zeal of the fringe religious right. Now I am not looking to be flamed but think back...
Did Ozzy really cause kids to kill themselves?
-Moleman
I don't mean to start a flame war here, but....
Ozzy was only drop in the bucket of negative influences on kids in those days, just as Marilyn Manson is now----but he was still a negative influence. He certainly wasn't helping anybody to feel better about themselves or causing them to do the right thing. Don't get me wrong--there are a couple Ozzy tunes that I like, but there isn't much of redeeming value in there.