I came here to quote Carl Sagan and rant about Proof, but I drank pineapple juice and now I can’t think so you’re right.

While many people were able to connect those dots in 2001, my progressive ass was in the majority of uninformed US folk. I have to admit I didn’t see through the bullshit back then. News was corporate mainstream; there was no social media to contradict what we were being fed.