Don't forget, things were different in 2000. People were employed, 9/11 hadn't happened yet, things were *normal*.
Also, for most of America, the Internet didn't exist yet, not really.
Now?
It's like an alternate universe, everywhere you go.
The house of cards is on a knife-edge, to mix a metaphor or two.
I think one more screw up by the TPTB, like a stolen election or an illegal amnesty, and there won't be enough clock towers in the nation to accommodate the demand.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
