What Republicans do

[David Horn]

(10-05-2017, 04:56 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(10-05-2017, 02:17 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: Yet we are often tole that the balance we seek between us and others can also be found within ourselves. This should mean that we have the ability to create positive outcomes by redirecting our energy to suit our own well-being. There you have the malaise in a nutshell. Most of us are so busy suiting our own well-being that we could care less about the collective welfare of the society at large. "Give me convenience or give me death", as mentioned on one thread here a while back, seems to be the battle cry of the whole society across all living generations. And until something shakes out there, nothing much will change for the better.

Agreed.  That's it in a nutshell.

I'd like to propose that the spirit of the last crisis and awakening, of abandoning self to pay attention to the strident needs of the nation, is cyclical.  Some fraction of it could come back.  Some talk as if the self centered spirit of the unraveling should be permanent.  At the moment, that is the key question.

Oddly, or maybe not, DJT talks both sides of this argument and tries to won both factions.  He seems to succeed with his most fervent backers, who believe that ultimate freedom and complete security can coexist without sacrifice or compromise.