Which qualifies as the worst possible event of the past 20 years?

[hyphenate]

So what is it?

[Pharaoh]

1. George Bush!

[mattvermont]

2. tsunami

160000 plus killed in one day

[vadawg]

3. +1 makes everything else seem kinda minor dosent it...

[TheBigotBasher]

42. Agreed

followed by Katrina. Katrina in some ways was worse, an American President left American citizens to die. The Republicans sickly tried to twist it as a failure of Government, it was indeed, but it was a failure of Republican Government.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Some other horrible event

9/11 - it's eight years later and we are still scarred by it. It also became the root for a lot of shit perpetrated by *

[FarLeftFist]

5. 9/11

[virgogal]

6. 9-11-01 , no contest. You asked for an event,that's an event.

[LaydeeBug]

51. +1

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. According to some, the installation of the unrec feature. n/t

[Zywiec]

10. Dang it, you beat me to the punch!! n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. LOL! Sorry man. I was surprised I was the first!

Great minds think alike, anyway.

Yes?

[Zywiec]

8. What about the unrec feature added to DU?

Seeing all the crying about that today surely must rank it pretty high to some.

:crazy:

[JVS]

9. The formation of Nickleback

[mdmc]

11. thanks God someone else recognized Raygun

give the man his due..

[dems_rightnow]

I recognized.......

.... that he hasn't been President for more than 20 years.....

[mdmc]

47. (damn time flies)

Perhaps the poll should put "Raygun's legacy".. as the DLC continues to be curse of all working people.

[HopeHoops]

12. Other - BushCo stealing 2 elections without winning either.

That really sucked.

[Lyric]

13. 9/11 and Katrina, just about tied.

Katrina might have been worse, actually, since so much more of THAT suffering was the direct fault of our own government. *sigh*

[Noseyaboutpollution]

14. Good point

Either way, it's been a rough few years for all.

[ConcernedCanuk]

15. other heinous - (s)election of George Walker Bush

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His actions have caused more death, destruction and misery than 911 and Katrina combined

And the depleted uranium spread over the Middle East will continue to maim and kill long after all of us are dead and forgotten.

USAmerica's genocide will go into the history books as outdoing Hitler's millions

but again,

we'll all be dead and gone by the time the World realizes what the USA has done . .

(sigh)

[madamesilverspurs]

16. Florida 2000.

Still makes me sick to contemplate how different the whole world would be if only. . .



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[lpbk2713]

30. To this day I still hope

... Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, James Baker and Diebold are made to answer for their crimes against our country.

[StarfarerBill]

17. The Rwandan genocide.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

35. Well, I'm glad at least one other person remembers. n/t

[StarfarerBill]

40. Thanks. But to be fair, I think most people were considering only disasters in the US,

as the poll answers themselves suggested, save the last...but since the title of the poll itself didn't specify that, the genocide was the worst event I can remember in the past twenty years, anywhere.

[BlooInBloo]

18. Religion is pretty much always the answer to this sort of question.

[justabob]

19. Katrina was a pretty big one nt

[NoPasaran]

20. The Macarena

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. ...

:spray: :rofl:


Just for fun

[dems_rightnow]

25. Damn, I need to change my vote.

Good call

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. The Bush Crime Family

All the shitty events of the past 20 years were caused by them either directly or indirectly.

[optimator]

24. Bush , Paulson, and Democrats

giving wall street criminals a blank check.

[HamdenRice]

26. If you mean "in the US", then it was 9/11. If one wasn't in NYC and didn't see jumpers or severed

arms in the street this will probably go over one's head and may explain one's stance on the war in Afghanistan.

Katrina was a close second.

If you are a "revolutionary" making revolution from the basement rumpus room of your parents' home in the midwest, taking breaks only when Mom sends down pepperoni hot pockets, then neither 9/11 nor Katrina probably mean much to you, nor does most reality based analysis.

[lpbk2713]

27. Other: The emergence of RW Hate Radio

Which by no coincidence got its start during the Saint RayGun years.

[11 Bravo]

28. To whomever unrecced this post:

I hope you suffer an attack of uncontrollable diarrhea, faint, fall face down into the resultant pool of foulness, and suffocate.

(Example #27,398 of why the unrec feature is the single dumbest feature ever introduced on this or any other website.)

[lpbk2713]

31. I hope Limbaugh puts them on his "Ignore" list

I just + recced it and it still shows negative.

[seeinfweggos]

29. 911 - much of the rest flows from that

[Crabby Appleton]

32. 9/11

[HarveyDarkey]

33. Jerry died

but maybe that's just me

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

34. Uh, the Rwandan genocide...

...and the related wars in the Congo? How the fuck is that even up for debate?

[bigwillq]

36. That not every human being has equal rights (nt)

[asdjrocky]

37. Reagan wasn't even in the last twenty years.

History man. It matters.

[guitar man]

38. Other

The slow death of critical thought in this country. Makes the disastrous path we've been on not only possible but inevitable :(

[muntrv]

39. The Graham-Leach-Bliley act, which deregulated Wall Street, thus giving

us the current economic crisis.

That, or Clear Channel radio, which gave us reich wing talk.

[adamuu]

53. +1

[WeDidIt]

41. 9/11/01 n/t

[ThomThom]

43. The stealing of our democracy and government by corporations

also the stealing of two elections by G.W.Bush the criminal.

[Louisiana1976]

44. Katrina and New Orleans' Federal Flood

[saltpoint]

45. A strong case can be made for a lot of those poll choices. I would throw

in the notion that too many folks feel that learning is a bad thing, that science is dismissable, that public information can be distorted and that people trying their best to convey it can be bullied and threatened into silence.

Some of the bravest souls I've seen in the public forum over the past 20 years would include the librarians who defied the junior Bush and the provisions of the Patriot Act. We don't know most of those librarians' names but I love them for that bravery and integrity and clarity. The ghosts of Madison and Jefferson smile down upon those librarians.

The vein of anti-intellectualism that has plagued U.S. life for a long, long time is in full-tilt scream right now. Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter are just the most famous personalities of that hydra-headed beast. Unfortunately there are many more who are less famous but more pervasive.

[Liberal_in_LA]

46. So many others.. including Katrina and disasters around the world

[RFKHumphreyObama]

48. Ronald Reagan had left office this time twenty years ago

So technically he can't be included in this poll because he's not from the last twenty years

My choice for the last twenty years would be the 1994 Republican Revolution and the * presidency

[Ganja Ninja]

49. The earthquake and tidal wave that hit Indonesia and the surrounding countries

around the Indian Ocean. The largest death toll of any natural disaster I can remember.

[era veteran]

54. I agree/Tsunami

This tragedy by FAR the worse. I guess it just slipped the posters mind.

[dysfunctional press]

50. 9/11 by FAR. it enabled the cheney misadministration to do as it pleased.

and they did.

(btw- it's been more than 20 years since reagan left office- so why is he a choice?)

and- survivor is having one of it's best seasons EVER.

[adamuu]

52. Other. Bank deregulation

Repeal of Glass-Steagle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act#Repeal_of_the_Act

The bill that ultimately repealed the Act was introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (Republican of Texas) and in the House of Representatives by Jim Leach (R-Iowa) in 1999. The bills were passed by a Republican majority, basically following party lines by a 54–44 vote in the Senate and by a bi-partisan 343–86 vote in the House of Representatives. After passing both the Senate and House the bill was moved to a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions. The final bill resolving the differences was passed in the Senate 90–8 (one not voting) and in the House: 362–57 (15 not voting). The legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.

The banking industry had been seeking the repeal of Glass–Steagall since at least the 1980s. In 1987 the Congressional Research Service prepared a report which explored the case for preserving Glass–Steagall and the case against preserving the act.

*snip*

The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup, which was in 1999 the largest U.S. bank by assets, to underwrite and trade instruments such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations and establish so-called structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, that bought those securities

Runners up :
1. Supreme Court ruling that the ballots in FL should not be recounted.
2. Lifting of media ownership restrictions

[michreject]

55. Didn't Ronald Reagan leave office 21 years ago?

Just wonderin.

Anyway. I'd say Phelps and company. I have encounter them up close and personal.

[Orsino]

56. The theft of Florida's electoral votes in 2000, maybe.

Or the continued escalation of greenhouse emissions by good ol' H. sapiens.