I do agree that it's universal, but can't then say that any one Party is worse (better?) than the other in that regard.
I distinctly remember a 20/20 ish program one night that was warning about Y2K. It detailed howninside something as simple as a coffee maker was a chip. And on that chip was code tgatvwouldnsuddenly think it was Jan 1 1900. Then they made the point to poignant music - COFFEE MAKERS DIDNT EXIST IN 1900. That's when I knew it was just the hype machine.
Y2k was easy for me. I had an NT 3.51 and an NT4.0 server with CC apps on one of them and the other was a webserver. Otherwise I had 5 BSDi unix boxes which were "immune" due to the OS.