Greetings, People of the Future. How did it all work out? Did the Republicans succeed in returning America to a "golden age" of patriarchy, racism and general unpleasantness? Did the Democrats ever grow a spine? Is our government still attacking random wedding parties with robot death planes? Is the weather still trying to kill us all? Because all we can tell from back here in the past is that things are looking grimmer than ever… Perhaps you are wondering how you ended up wherever it is that we are headed. Well, you're in luck—because you are holding a boots-on-the-ground history of the bad old days, straight from the incisive pen of Tom Tomorrow. He's never been sharper, more outraged, or more hilarious than right here. Tom Tomorrow is the multi-award-winning editorial cartoonist of This Modern World, which has been running in better newspapers nationwide since 1988. He's just as scared as the rest of us.