Politically, 1990s were a big bunch of positive (or at least positive-seeming) political changes, the world had moved away from totalitarianism and it seemed th

Politically, 1990s were a big bunch of positive (or at least positive-seeming) political changes, the world had moved away from totalitarianism and it seemed that there was a momentum for improvement - while this decade has shown lots and lots of regression. IMHO there is an obvious difference between these past three decades, and the political climate was obviously better in 2000 than in 2019. Currently there's so much tension and public support for authoritarian leadership and us-vs-them policies that it reminds me very much of the global mindset during late 1920s or 1930s, and we all know the outcome of that - even without a particular mustachioed guy or two, that world situation would have resulted in some horrible violence.