There is always talk about people having more money back in the 90s and would spend like crazy. Clinton gets all this credit for the economy and creating jobs, but most of it was from the dot com bubble and it came crashing down hard at the end of the 90s.
Clinton was also the end of the unions and Democrat's support for labor rights, especially in the south. He was able to bust the unions that Reagan couldn't touch. A lot of people are unaware that historically, the southern states used to be a hotbed for labor activism and had strong workers' rights. The Dems betrayed all those people there in the 90s. That was around the time they completely abandoned the south and left it unchallenged to the GOP.
Chris Hedges has said before that the left should've abandoned the Democratic party after Clinton and NAFTA and I 100% agree with him. We should've stopped having arguments about "vote blue no matter who" and "sucking it up and voting Democrat to stop the Republicans" way back then.
There was also relatively high inflation from 1992 until 2000, and that massively benefitted people who bought their homes right before that. When people talk about the 90s being good, this was the biggest part of it.
The 90s were awful for everyone who wasn't a white suburbanite, especially people outside of the imperial core
There is always talk about people having more money back in the 90s and would spend like crazy. Clinton gets all this credit for the economy and creating jobs, but most of it was from the dot com bubble and it came crashing down hard at the end of the 90s.
Clinton was also the end of the unions and Democrat's support for labor rights, especially in the south. He was able to bust the unions that Reagan couldn't touch. A lot of people are unaware that historically, the southern states used to be a hotbed for labor activism and had strong workers' rights. The Dems betrayed all those people there in the 90s. That was around the time they completely abandoned the south and left it unchallenged to the GOP.
Chris Hedges has said before that the left should've abandoned the Democratic party after Clinton and NAFTA and I 100% agree with him. We should've stopped having arguments about "vote blue no matter who" and "sucking it up and voting Democrat to stop the Republicans" way back then.
There was also relatively high inflation from 1992 until 2000, and that massively benefitted people who bought their homes right before that. When people talk about the 90s being good, this was the biggest part of it.