Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-09-2020, 10:27 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-09-2020, 01:59 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Bill Clinton hit the nail on the head when he notified those on the left during a State of the Union Address after the Republicans took the House for the first time in over a hundred years that the era of big government was over. You guys should have taken that to heart and began to adjust expectations vs clinging to hopes for major crisis's to occur that would rekindle and revive it and continuing to support adding more responsibilities on top of existing responsibilities and adding more problems related to people than progressive systems and government institutions can handle for to many years.

Well, that was then and this is now.  We're all here because we believe that politics, culture and the economy operate on cycles.  The "era of big government is over" is now passing as well.  It was foreshadowed by Nixon and Carter, but started in earnest with Reagan.  That's half-a-saeculum ago; it's time for a change.  

We should be a bit humble and realize that we always fix what's broken by breaking something else.  That 'something else' takes a while to do damage and be noticed, but that's the reason the cycle exists.  It's also the human condition.  Perfection is unachievable, so the pursuit of it is eternal.

Nitpick:  I am a fan of spirals rather than cycles.  After kings, slaves, then nazi, then… Who knows?   Problems get solved, then four scores and seven years later you go on to the next thing that you can't tolerate any more.  Always there are some who want to continue the old pattern, arguing correctly that this is how it always has been done, but remembered poorly by history according to the new values.  It is less that we break things in the process of fixing them, which does happen often enough, but more that the Agricultural Age autocratic systems were awful.