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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was Pre-9/11 before all the security at the airports and you could literally arrive at the airport and basically walk straight to your plane and board--my husband (a consultant) used to cut it as close as possible.  You can't imagine what a change it was to the country post-9/11. Threat levels and the loss of innocence.  And the anthrax scare on the heals of 9/11 in 2001.

We also had just 'partied like it's 1999' and made it through Y2K unscathed.

Everything felt safe.  No pandemics and mass shootings/school shootings were rare and not a daily occurrence like now.

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The summer of 2000 was literally 14 months after Columbine. It was just a couple of years after Bill Clinton was impeached. There had already been a bombing at the World Trade Center and the USS Cole, so terrorism was enough of a concern that they had already closed Pennsylvania Avenue to traffic (when I first moved here in 1995, you could drive by the White House.) I think you may be looking at the time with some rose colored glasses. [/quote]

No - there was a monumental shift after 9/11. It's all been downhill ever since. 
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How quickly you forget the Florida recount. [/quote]

The Florida recount was definitely the end of innocence for me. That whole "hanging chad" business still gives me nightmares.[/quote]

Maybe it was a big deal if you worked in government. It was all resolved in a month and no one stormed the Capitol. Chad, schmad. 
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Right, it was contentious, but the politicians involved (Bush, Gore) very much believed in the American system, and resolved it in the courts. Gore accepted the Supreme Court's decision, even though he didn't agree with it, and I have no doubt Bush would have done the same if the court had ruled against him.

I mean, we'd be better off as a country if our politicians used that recount as a model for resolving disputes. [/quote]

Exactly. I didn't think democracy was doomed. 
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