Wrong [Time] Track

According to some recent poll, more than 90% of Americans believe "this country is on the wrong track."

I have a slightly different theory.

I think we ended up in the wrong parallel universe somehow. We're on the wrong time track.

The end of the 90's were the "end of history" as Fukuyama said.

In this history, we always used to have some sort of reasonable President, whether Democrat or Republican, who was a middle aged or elderly white man, who would run things in a reasonable respectable sort of way, making decisions that some would agree with and some would disagree with (closer relations with Russia? more farm subsidies? fight Communism in this way or that way? ) It was a Time/Newsweek world ... it was boring. (Although perhaps not so boring for those "Communists" who got fought this time around.) It was the Establishment world.

Then around 2000, the gods (space aliens? lizard people? the Artist? the Programmer?) ran out of film or got bored or something, and decided to splice in a *new* movie. Terrorists blow up New York skyscrapers with jet planes! New Orleans underwater! America takes over an Arab country! Everything on Wall Street is worthless!

Lately ... since we failed to get the joke ... the Creator went from cheezy "B" action/disaster movie to complete absurdity.

This is why we are faced with electing a Lincoln-esque black president named Barack Hussein Obama. Our villains are, um, eponymous with our hero? Christ, why not just call him Barack Saddam Hussein Obama bin Laden.

We got unstuck from our time track and are now just veering wildly in this unnamed decade (the Oughts? Why not the "Could-Bes"!)

I think it is time to get the joke and start laughing, otherwise, in an attempt to get the yucks out of us, "They" are going to pull our leg so hard next time it will come right off.

Please put out at least a chuckle, so that we can avoid something really bizarre like the "Paper Doll Plague" which makes people become two-dimensional and die by falling into sewer grates ... or whatever! Let's just please not provoke "Their" creativity any further.