07-01-2019, 04:45 PM
(07-01-2019, 03:13 PM)David Horn Wrote:(06-30-2019, 06:18 AM)Marypoza Wrote:(06-28-2019, 07:06 PM)David Horn Wrote:(06-28-2019, 03:15 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: ... I'm not sure how valid it is to single out boomers. Certainly boomers are responsible for the continued encroachment of regulation today, but the period they're looking at also includes times when the GI and Silent generations were in charge.
HINT: regulation is down and declining. The last paradigm shift was to the right under Reagan, and that hasn't eased a bit. Finally, a leftward shift may be starting, but the gutless Dems are fighting hard to stop it. The more Progressive Dems may not have enough clout to push back effectively.
If you hate the talk about socialism (note: small 's'), you're not going to like the next few decades, but talk is cheap. If real policy change happens, then something boring and Great Power 1T-like may happen, or it might be an age of stellar advancement for everyone. If not, then plan for worse … much worse. We should know by 2024, unless my guess is totally off.
-- "when, in the course of human events......"
Not at all impossible at this point. Humor: it's the "rebellious right" that wants the coasts to depart Real America, so they can have freedom, low taxes and their way. I guess they get the debt then too.
The way the polls are going, the "coasts" will include the shores of the Great Lakes.
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.
