Where is my New Millennium?

[Louisiana1976]

In 1996, Bill Clinton and Al Gore ran on the slogan of "Building the Bridge to the 21st Century". Fourteen years later we wonder if we will ever get off that bridge and get into the 21st century. Not chronologically, for the rhetoric of new centuries is not about the rolling over of a clock. But the promise of transformation. For Clinton and Gore, building that bridge meant the internet, more money for education, and personal responsibility for grabbing opportunities and acting as citizens. Kinda pathetic for a millennial bridge, isn't it? More and more the public mood is, well where is it? Where are my opportunities? Where is it that my taking responsibility as a citizen actually does anything?

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/1/821136/-Where-is-my-New-Millennium

[That Is Quite Enough]

1. Not here yet.

[HeresyLives]

2. People aren't ready for the new millennium yet.

So they aren't even looking for a bridge.

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[HeresyLives]

4. NAFTA has nothing to do with it.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Bush and Cheney delayed it's arrival, and in fact, throw us back

a few decades.

[Skink]

6. this is Neumanium.