By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
"...One of the pervasive tropes that factions in the political class
have propagated in the “left”-leaning discourse of the present moment
is that the Republicans/Tea Party/conservatives are reactionary and
backward-looking, that they want a future where the United States has
returned to an inferior past, like the Gilded Age, or even the
antebellum South.[1] There’s even a whole cluster of tropes that
conservatives like say Wisconsin’s Scott Walker or Alberta’s Ron
Harper are really seeking secession and the restoration of the
Confederacy. (OK, I made up the part about Harper.) Never mind the
teleology implicit in that view, also implicit in the concept
“progressive” (progress toward what, one might ask). But for the sake
of the argument let’s accept it. But do we ever consider the notion
that the Democrats/”progressives”/liberals also have a future in mind
for us, forward-looking but just as horrific in its own way as a
future that’s backward-looking? I don’t think we do, and in this post
I would like to fight my way towards doing so..."
What If We Thought of ObamaCare as a New Model for Future Government
Programs?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/what-if-we-thought-of-obamacare-new-model-future-government-programs.html
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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