Reply #82: Perspective..

[Fumesucker]

It's one of the very few benefits of getting older, you gain a certain historical perspective.

Mark Twain said that history does not repeat itself but it does rhyme, it is the perspective of seeing a goodly chunk of modern history that allows some of us to perceive the rhymes.

Sooner or later the Republicans will take over again, I thought after Nixon that we would't see a Republican president for a generation, you might recall how that worked out and I have no intention of making that particular mistake again.

Republicans will take power, leave the mandate in place because their real base hearts it big time and then they will strip out every single "protection" the Democrats have put in place, the Democrats will then be tarred with the mandate which will be intensely unpopular. The media, as usual, will go along with the Republican framing and the public will buy it.

Johnson said that civil rights for blacks would lose the South for the Dems for a generation, the mandate with no protection will banish the Dems from power for a generation.

Income inequality is increasing at a rapid pace, we are at Gilded Age levels of inequality and the pace of that change is only increasing, a study was completed early this year which determined that as income inequality increased, the population at the top and bottom becomes more conservative. They vote for more of the policies that made them rich and poor. As Obama famously noted, when people lose hope they tend to cling to their guns and their religion and I will add that they cling to their conservative politics.


http://web.utk.edu/~nkelly/papers/inequality/KellyEnns_preprint.pdf

Read it and weep, I've got grandchildren and I know I did.