I know of no political leader, news media person or academic who has come forward to alert the American people of their pending folly. Now the psychoanalysis. Americans feel as though the new millennium starts next year. Feelings and emotions, rather than facts and standards, have become the criteria for assessing things in modern America. The popularity of our daytime television sleaze shows amply demonstrates that.
Politicians feel our pain.
So naturally it follows that the millennium starts when we feel it starts. Abundant evidence also demonstrates that government schools, along with the news media, are immunizing Americans to facts and standards. I know that teachers and news media people read this column. They are now supplied with millennium facts. Wait and watch.