11-09-2016, 09:55 AM
(11-09-2016, 09:26 AM)Earl and Mooch Wrote: The last time the Cubs were in the World Series (1945) was at the end of a 4T. This time it could be at the point of regeneracy.
If this is the regeneracy then I want no part of it. This looks more like the sort of fake regeneracy that one might have seen in 1934 in Germany; it will not end well. I can imagine such a fake regeneracy culminating in a catastrophic defeat in which foreign powers dictate terms of existence for the successor state. Parliamentary system?
We had the first modern democracy. It had a now-fatal flaw that people might have discovered several times but chose to avoid exploiting it because such would be too dangerous to consider.
Evil people have gamed the system, destroying its safeguards against becoming a tool of oppression.
A nasty social order, one in which 95% of the people suffer for 2% (think of Imperial Russia) is nothing worthy of having or keeping. Government by lobbyist is a new form of irresponsible government.
We need to start over.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.