03-21-2017, 12:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2017, 12:32 PM by Eric the Green.)
(03-21-2017, 01:41 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-21-2017, 01:07 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Probably if you lived in 1852, you'd be seeing quite a similar situation.
No, the situations were quite different. If I thought you'd listen, I'd say how, but you have access to history books. Don't know that quoting them would do any good.
Quite similar, I'm sure. The nation was divided. People on both sides said the others were "too radical and extreme." In the end, only one side would win and be proven correct. That's where we are today. And those who attempted compromise, like you maybe, were swept aside. As you will be. We'll get gun control, discredit Reaganomics as the fraud it always was, and science and spirit will sweep aside the old materialism too
(I'm challenging you there, because that's where you appear to be stuck and think there are "extreme partisans on the Left," especially referring to me; I am actually capable of seeing some qualifications to those idealisms)
Some people try and muddy the waters by regurgitating the demagogue's claims of being an agent of change. But those claims, like everything Drump says, are lies. Drump is the supreme agent of the status quo; the biggest such agent we have ever had. Reagan on steroids. And the most incompetent too, which may work to the favor of the real change agents, just as the incompetence of Pierce and Buchanan and the xenophobia of the Know Nothings worked to the advantage of the real change agents in 1852-56.