agip wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
I do think some better emerges from this era of excess. Better leadership will be demanded, as all the fake narratives prove to be little more than distractions. Real pain does that.
this is a common refrain from bears/pessimists across history - that what a nation really needs is a good destructive flood to clean it out and start over.
you hear that all the time, esp from right wingers.
And the left wingers answer is to pass out more money to their voters to insure fealty to the cause. Meanwhile both parties sell a war with Russia to distract the masses from decades of failed policies. I laugh at the vaccine public service announcement with our former failed leaders of Clinton, Bush, and Obama. Trillions of wealth destroyed, millions of deaths, from those three turds.