Got my first taste of left politics in 2003 when Michael Moore came to speak at my college. I am glad to say that while I showed up eager to hear anyone speak against the war, i left horrified halfway through. I'd never seen a talented demagogue before.
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Blogs started cropping up around this time and they were intoxicating Most people were still eager to fight, but some weren't, and seeing Contemporary Discourse (generally very good) without a filter was a revelation
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The spell of the War was good and finally broken around Katrina, when I think the country collectively realized Bush was broken. It was a bit of a relief, but even then--I don't know. I don't think things seemed anywhere near as bad during the GWoT as they do now.
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The week Bear and Lehman went down, I did buy some extra supplies just in case things got dicey, but that passed pretty quickly. There was a kind of lights-going-out-all-over-Europe vibe to it, though. Probably we haven't really recovered.
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I guess I keep returning to what I thought and who I was when I was trying to go to sleep on 1/1/00 trying to wrap my head around what in God's name could have gone so horribly awry that led us to This If Covid had hit instead of 9/11, would it be like this? I don't think so
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I don't know. I don't know what I could have done differently. I don't know. Just feels bad, man. A whole beautiful future just pfffft.
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Here, a poll to end things Would you rather survive the apocalypse and remember the before time in its glory and shining hope, and mourn it all your days; or be born after and grow up hearing only the legends knowing you would never live in such a world
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