My point was that most thinking people will look back on the teens the way most thinking people think of the seventies: a good decade to put behind us, and for many of the same reasons.
And please, the only thing worse than the treacly confessional singer-songwriter phenomenon was Disco, the musical equivalent of lip gloss. Nothing like the creative flowering of the eighties. Devo. Holly and the Italians. The B-52s. The Pretenders. The Talking Heads. Black Flag. Elvis Costello.
What Nazis? You never heard of Skokie? Illinois Nazis and the ACLU? You should google it or watch the Blues Brothers.
As to crime, pre-Giuliani New York was a combination slaughterhouse and open sewer.