“Set your Hot Tub Time Machine back a decade and this week's political brinksmanship is unthinkable: Congress would sooner cut funding to the Puppies for Veteran Grandmothers program than to the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans won the 2002 election simply by arguing that Democrats, who initially came up with the (terrible) plan to create the DHS, didn't support their own idea fervently enough. In the 9/11 era, any federal program that so much as brushed against national security was sacrosanct.”
Which also – like, when we look back at the 2000s I’m pretty sure it’s going to be seen as the reactionary-turtle-decade. Popular culture was super safe and comforting and not very nourishing or adventurous or responsive; we had way less racial diversity on TV all of a sudden. People stopped vaccinating their kids out of fear; GMOs came under attack because they weren’t like the natural-old-days. And there is so much more happening now.
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