re: #91 Lupin

I understand the hand-wringing here, but you’ve got to face up to the facts that you now live in a rather different country than the one you remember from, say, 20 years ago, and it’s only going to get more “differenter”.

That has happened throughout history to many, many people in many, many countries. Things chance, not always for the better. History is a bitch that way. Remember the Bellamy family trying to adapt and survive in UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS.

Historians will be discussing the many causes for that change for centuries to come, but ultimately it’s not important now. I’ve been writing on blogs for now 15 years, starting on DKos and Billmon’s in 2003, that the US is moving towards a democrature à la Brazil/Russia, and so far I’ve been proven right.

One might speculate that, as the first two decades of the 20th century saw the end of the old colonial empires, the first two decades of this century are seeing the end of the US of A as it once was. There’ll be a lot of bad things about it, for sure, but also good things. Nothing lasts forever. One has to roll with the punches.

thought provoking and serious question

had clinton won in ‘16 would things be different going forward or just a delay of the inevitable?