The 2000s was a conservative backlash towards the progressiveness of the 1990s.

The 2000s was seen by many people to be a problematic decade because it had broken the warm fuzzies that people were feeling in the 90s. However, I had come with the theory is that most of the problematic elements of the 2000s were a result of the conservative backlash against the progressiveness of the 90s socially, politically, and culturally.

• The republicans won the election of 2004 is mostly due to pushing the rise of homophobia that was due to gays getting equal rights and coming out in the 90s which in turn made Bush jr trying to push a Constitutional amendment that would ban same-gender marriage to silence the LBGQT+ community who were speaking out against the republicans’ homophobia.

•Women were becoming more feministic and more independent in the 90s and that pissed off the misogynistic assholes so much that they ended the feminist movement as a way to not get all feisty against them.

• The No Child Act was passed in 2003 as a retaliation against the high education rates of the 90s and the youth and teens becoming more educated than them in that decade.

• And to top it all off, Bush Jr winning the 2000 election was the republicans revenge against the whole eight years of the Clinton administration, the democrats and the liberals for exposing their bigotry and lies in the 90s.

I get the feeling that all of the progressiveness of the 90s would break the minds of conservatives who wanted to go back to the Reagan-Bush sr 80s conservative era. The 2000s was just the repeat of the 80s conservative era in which conservatives ruled the world and the liberals and democrats were powerless against them.

I think it's no wonder why most millennials hated the 2000s with a burning passion because they knew that the conservatives knew back in the 90s that the millennials youth were becoming more intelligent and more liberal than them so they decided to revived the trends and tropes of the conservative 80s into the 2000s as punishment for millennials who dare to call them out of their bigotry.