Since Reagan....OK?
I am talking basically about the past 30 years. OK? Get it? Are you suggesting American is better off, safer and more secure today than it was, lets say 28 years ago?
This is not a complex question.
Your sloppy posting said thirty plus years. Thirty plus is before 1987 which is right in the middle of the Reagan administration. If you had said since Reagan in the original post this could have been avoided. For the purposes of this conversation what has happened since Reagan is immaterial and beside the point.