The 2000 election was such a massive turning point for the US. So many branching consequences, but imagine if we had had an environmentalist in the White House instead of Mr. Buy and Drill Our Way Out of This? At the time of 9/11 I believe it was Tom Daschle of SD on record calling for a Green Manhattan Project which obviously fell on deaf ears quite quickly as the bombs started raining down on Baghdad. Sure there’d still be cries for vengeance, but I also think if POTUS had been saying at the time ‘we win this war by getting ourselves off foreign energy’ it just might have been persuasive enough to embark on some major developments.

I keep saying that about almost everything. But yeah, “Oh cool we’re where we should have been!”

Who wants trains when you have brown people to bomb?

It’s like a hundred years late. The US was built with invented trains, we should have the best train network in the world.

In fact we did until we also invented cars and fucked the world up by favoring highways and essentially single-person metal boxes.