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Yeah, I remember pretty much 1992 on really well, and they were prosperous, carefree years. Everything was good (save some snags, nothing is 100%). We even turned the corner into the millennium and things were just great. I go into high school and we're just chugging along, the biggest problems we have are which cable internet provider to choose to download viruses on limewire.
Then, boom, 9/11. And the world just hasn't seemed to have gotten its footing since then. And perhaps that was naivety and my 14-year-old perspective, but that seemed to be the turning point for me, where the unprecedented became precedented.
Those center lefts maintained a status quo that did not serve it's constituents, plain and simple. Say what you will about Trump, hate the dude and his policies, but he has a base who has some very regressive desires, and he's hitting them. Democrats have a pretty large progressive base, and they have essentially failed to meet those desires for as long as I've been alive. But maybe they needed a dog in the white house to bite them in the ass. We will see. Or we won't and the world ends, whatever!
+1, with an addendum.
I had (and have) some crazy Evangelical family in the South. Climate denial, anti vax, Democrats burning in hell, unspeakable acts from their pastors they worship, the whole nine yards. Simplifying drama, I'd wince, then chuckle, and dismiss them as relics the US (and maybe Christianity?) would move past.
I'm not laughing anymore.