03-16-2020, 01:13 PM
(03-15-2020, 08:15 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: They would have tried. At the time there was a confidence that America could do anything if big government threw enough money at the problem. They might have well failed due to lack of technology. In which case it would have been one of the failures which opened the Conservative Era, such as the fall of Saigon, Watergate, the Oil and Hostage crises, and the national malaise.
I think you are projecting the conservative instinct to ignore problems a little early, and the same bias leaves you are unable to see the magnitude of the virus problem clearly. It would have certainly taken more time to identify the problem, if only because the doors to China were still closed as well as technology. It would have been a commie problem a bit longer, but in time it would spread.
I think you're confusing 1980 with 1960. The original question asked about 1980, not 1960.
(03-16-2020, 12:56 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: But they refused to go to war for their country. The “ask not—-“ mentality unraveled big time at this point.
Exactly.