03-25-2020, 11:04 AM
(03-24-2020, 04:20 PM)David Horn Wrote:(03-24-2020, 11:50 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: ... Is it really progress when the interests of Wall Street consistently trump those of Main Street, as they have for the better part of four decades? And when fertil farmland is destroyed to make room for shopping malls and office buildings, which in a way are now themselves on the wane?
The progress we get is not always the progress we desire. The real question: does the new paradigm move us forward, backwards or in no particular direction? Typically, only the first option on that list truly qualifies as progress, but the change may be tiny and unsatisfying and still qualify. I suspect we'll be unsatisfied this time. Assuming we're there, the transition from 4T to 1T will be overseen by an Artist or a reprobate Boomer. Neither really qualifies as ideal … especially another 4 years of the Orange One.
The key is that government responds to fact based scientific information rather than echo chamber fantasies. Global warming has been the poster child of this sort of problem, but the problems that it presents won’t appear in the life time of the decision makers. The Coronavirus is much faster. Ignoring the problem will bite you in the rear much faster than an election cycle. The Fox New bubble chamber fantasy is exposed quickly and lethally. That might well be enough to put the blues in charge, and I suspect that the global warming problem will follow the Coronavirus.
For years I have thought the red worldview selfish. The tribal thinking has the government working for people like them rather than leveling the playing field. Their response or lack thereof is rapidly becoming stark.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.