There were a number of events during my life that got us where we are. I will list them and try to elaborate:
- Mccarthyism
- Post-war boom
- Duck and cover
- Cuban missile crisis
- Kennedy assassination
- Civil rights marches and Civil Rights Act
- Scientists warn Johnson on climate in 1965
- Vietnam war
- King and Bobby assassination
- 1968 Dem convention
- Nixon
- Moon landing
- Earth day — 1970-04-22
- Nixon founds EPA — 1970-12-02
- Kent state
- Yom Kippur war and oil embargo
- Roe v. Wade
- Nixon impeachment
- Gerald Ford pardons Nixon
- Vietnam evacuation
- Pol Pot
- Jimmy Carter beats Ford
- Solar panels and sweater speech
- Iran hostage crisis and late night news
- John Anderson
- “There you go again”
- Hostages freed upon Reagan’s inauguration
- Reagan shooting
- Fairness doctrine repealed
- Reagan vs. Mondale
- “Mediocraty deserves represention”
- Bork
- Arms for hostages
- ERA defeated by Schlafly forces
- Bush I beats Dukakis
- Desert storm
- Clinton beats Bush
- Limbaugh: “America held hostage”
- Fox news?
- 1994: Gingrich congress
- Health care defeated
- “End welfare as we know it”
- Clinton beats Dole
- Internet goes mainstream
- Paris accords
- Sex scandal and impeachment
- Clinton leaves a surplus
- Hillary gets NY senate seat
- Bush 2 “defeats” Gore; Jeb and hanging chads in FL, supreme count ruling
- “An Inconvenient Truth”
- Dot com crash
- Tokyo accords?
- 9/11
- “Axis of Evil”
- Iraq war: “shock and awe”, military disbanded
- Bush swiftboats Kerry
- Citizens United
- 2008 crash
- Obama beats McCain
- ACA (formerly Romneycare) passed — 2010-03-23
- 2010 election debacle
- Obama beats Romney
- Trump vs. many
- Inevitable Hillary vs. Bernie
- Stormy Daniels
- Trump on the bus
- “I’m being audited”
- Comey: “Hey, remember Hillary’s email?”
- Trump wins, continues to Tweet
- Gets ideas from Fox & Friends
- Revolving door and acting staff
- Hires his children, promotes his properties
- “Build the wall”
- Kids in cages
- “California needs to rake”
- Falls in love with Kim
- Never criticizes Putin
- Toss the Puerto Ricans some paper towels (3000 dead)
- Syria pull-out
- Ukraine “assistance”
- Troops for the Saudis
- Impeachment
- Cuts medical funds for Puerto Rico
- Iraq embassy while POTUS golfs
- Australian hell