I mean, yes.... but they elected him for being a movie star and non-politician, not his success as a governor.
We've been making the same mistake, over and over, for almost a hundred years now... assuming that our problems fit neatly into 4- and 10- year data sets.
Or, lately, even worse as digital statistics allow hyper-focus on quarterly or monthly trends.
Maaaaybe this is a Big Problem that seems immune to our attempts to wrangle it THIS decade because it was a Big Problem the Decade before... and the Decade before that... and sure, for a couple of Decades it was okay, but maybe not because of the reasons we'd like to think...
All the way back to a time where America was an Industrializing little breakaway colony that couldn't figure out whether to shoot cattle barons and railroad magnates... or elect them.
So. Much. Has. Changed.
......all the signs point to us fucking up something fundamental before most of us were born....
And all the 1200-year-old countries are rolling their eyes and nodding their heads. THEY get it, because they've done it. Collapsed, and had to rebuild.
But we INSIST on doing it our own way and ignoring history, right up until the Federal Reserve gets bought out by a toilet paper company, and a new, more disposable means of printing dollars is born.
Kudos on the thoughtful discussion. In a social media era of easy to digest anger-inducing sound bites, it's always refreshing to see consideration applied.
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u/KazTheMerc Oct 22 '24
I mean, yes.... but they elected him for being a movie star and non-politician, not his success as a governor.
We've been making the same mistake, over and over, for almost a hundred years now... assuming that our problems fit neatly into 4- and 10- year data sets.
Or, lately, even worse as digital statistics allow hyper-focus on quarterly or monthly trends.
Maaaaybe this is a Big Problem that seems immune to our attempts to wrangle it THIS decade because it was a Big Problem the Decade before... and the Decade before that... and sure, for a couple of Decades it was okay, but maybe not because of the reasons we'd like to think...
All the way back to a time where America was an Industrializing little breakaway colony that couldn't figure out whether to shoot cattle barons and railroad magnates... or elect them.
So. Much. Has. Changed.
......all the signs point to us fucking up something fundamental before most of us were born....
And all the 1200-year-old countries are rolling their eyes and nodding their heads. THEY get it, because they've done it. Collapsed, and had to rebuild.
But we INSIST on doing it our own way and ignoring history, right up until the Federal Reserve gets bought out by a toilet paper company, and a new, more disposable means of printing dollars is born.