” think what happened is that at some point (mid 90s by my best guess), there was some cosmic event or fracture in the space time continum that causes reality to split along two divergent paths. Somewhere out there in the multiverse, real Earth goes about it’s normal business with it’s normal issues.”
With the 2000 election, it was apparent that the US had crossed the rubicon and went off the rails for good.
The pic of the hanging chad buy should be the iconic photo of the generation. Everything wrong with America is included with that picture.