On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:18:24 -0600, Man of Mind
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baron.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 1/9/2017 7:14 AM, Mrs. Bleak writhed in denials:
>>
>> I hope Trump and Pence absolutely *ruin* things for
>> you America-hating lefties ... make it impossible for
>> your ilk to ever regain any real power and influence.
>
>Speaking of 'certified bullshit', the last time Republicans
>had similar political 'stranglehold', the Great Depression
>came about and left your partisan political ideology stranded
>for decades afterward..
>
>Hence..
I don't disagree with WHY the left initially managed
to grab power ... the depression made everybody
desperate and FDR was the Trump of the hour, the
new guy with a new deal.
Not that it was such a GREAT deal ... but 'new' was
good enough at the time.
You also imply that the depression was somehow the
fault of the Republicans. It was (and remains) a fault
of the SYSTEM - capitalism is inherently unstable, a
positive-feedback system that, improperly attended,
will bang back and forth between extremes. Maybe
OK for insular 1801, but not for globalist 2017.
The good bit is that it's high-performance and can
really take quick advantage of opportunities ... and
the bad bit is that it can also crash hard for seemingly
no reason at all.
So far, no political party has been able to properly
harness the good bits of capitalism and also guard
against its downsides. "Socialism" is just a giant
Xanax pill that depresses everything ... good way
for great nations to just fade away into the history
books, replaced by more aggressive risk-taking
entities. Oh yea, they usually execute the 'liberals'
when they take over ....
The closest 'fix' for capitalism is the concept of
the 'safety net' - keep a big cash reserve for when
everything goes to shit. It does - and did - work ...
but you can only use it just so often. China is an
instance of a heavily capitalistic economy with
essentially NO safety nets in place ... they haven't
had the time or inclination. WHEN it crashes it's
gonna leave a crater the size of the dinosaur-killer
asteroid .......
Oh well ... 1929 was 1929. The 'left' has mostly
run us down since then. Their "free money" strategy
is political heroin ... and making that very hard to
persue in the future is the best way to keep the
left buried deep. I don't want 'em gone entirely
however ... the (few) actual 'liberals' remaining on
the left DO have a function as a sort of 'conscience'
for the 'right'.