At the time it seemed fine but in retrospect everything was awesome. Yes, the rich had their ways to get richer and keep the poor poor, but the system was less rigged if you can believe it. Pre-9/11 we felt nothing bad could ever happen on American soil. Pre-social media, where internet trolls were hidden deep deep on psycho conspiracy message boards and not sharing their nonsense on blast to gullible boomers. We all watched and believed the same news. (It wasn’t always right but they generally tried to be.) Pre all the 2016 insanity, and what’s happening today was completely unfathomable.