politics was shit but nobody would have thought it would descend to the absolute hellscape it is today. if you'd even suggested that donald trump could someday become president people would have laughed in your face. probably the same with joe biden. but then, we hadn't had 9-11 at that point, and the police/surveillance state hadn't become as horrifically obvious or expanded a fraction as much. so we thought we were living in, and in fact were living in, a very different and much more comfortable country, without a clue as to how it was all about to tall to shit right on our heads.  right and left-wingers still bitterly hated each other, but had yet to understand as thoroughly as we do now that the government, regardless of party, is our worst enemy and always will be.
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