The oceans are rising and many of our elected leaders seem completely unbothered about the planet Earth that our future generations are going to inherit.Īnd now, as we arrive at the conclusion of the decade, the country (and world, by proxy) is more angry and divided than ever. The rising presidential campaign of then-reality TV star Donald Trump put a spotlight on the seedy underbelly of racism and misogyny that was bubbling under the surface of much of the country, just as the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements were beginning to gain steam. Then, around the turn of the decade, everything changed. For the first time in years, it seemed like smooth sailing. DOMA was overturned and gay marriage became legal. President Barack Obama had taken office the year before, putting an end to the ugly decade of warmongering and unrest that had taken place under the previous administration. The 2010s (or teens, tweenies, whatever you’d like to call them) can probably best be described as “in like a lamb and out like a lion,” to shake up the old proverb about the month of March.
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