DRiccio21 wrote:the world works in cycles...autiger730 wrote:FDRishCnasty wrote:Where did it go wrong? Or was it ever right from the wig wearing days?
natural progressions, natural retracements.
sure, some policies make things better/worse and can speed up processes or slow them down but for the most part everything always works in the same cycles over and over and over again because we are human and for as long as we've been human we've always been polluted by human emotions.
we don't have the entreprenurial spirit in our country anymore because we are fat and happy. our grandparents migrated over for a better life, we were given the better life. its natural, it happens to all leading civilizations. someone else is hungrier and they take over.
we think we 'deserve' rights while other countries are fighting (literally) for their lives to get theirs. we use our army and our military to strong arm ourselves to stay on top until hopefully we can get out of the funk... but there is a good chance we might not ever get out of the funk unless we see some serious change in character (which is certainly possible).
but its bullshit to think that some president or policy came in and changed the path of our country... its simply not possible. it might speed it up or slow it down, but this was coming regardless.
Started with Woodrow Wilson, FDR pushed it over the edge. To say otherwise is to ignore, or be ignorant of, history.