09-26-2016, 02:25 AM
(09-25-2016, 02:14 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I know where it comes from. Us boomers are used to shaping reality, not having to live with realities.
Blue boomers in particular are used to shaping reality by yelling at it and about it. If enough people just say something, it will become true.
And let's face it: blue boomers have personal experience during the Consciousness Revolution about the worst that can happen economically. The worst that can happen with more taxes and more spending and more of the economy under control of the government is a Soviet style centrally controlled economy. Given that they - by which I mean Eric but also Clinton - were siding against the U.S. military industrial complex and essentially in favor of the Soviets in the culture wars, that doesn't sound so bad to them.
Welcome to my world. I thought the Lost had it bad in old age but it looks the Boomers are in for some serious karma. Should be fun to watch.
As for economic failure the worst seems to be North Korea, Cuba and, my personal favorite, Venezuela. Eric the Obtuse and his ilk are too fucking stupid to figure out that the MIC is a product of statism and big government. As for Clinton, his only concern was getting laid and so he went where the chicks were.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises