re: #145 EPR-radar

It is certainly plausible that the Powers That Be have evolved into this very convenient arrangement since just after the New Deal. If so, the role of the GOP was to lose, noisily, on the culture war front. The role of the Democrats was to lose, quietly, on all the economic issues.

The teabaggers are a complicating influence —- they don’t realize they aren’t supposed to win on their social issues.

I tend to see it more as the cultural has been slowly following an inevitable path, the ‘Arc of Justice’ if you will.

Economically, we lurched suddenly and dramatically to the left as a result of the Great Depression, and we kind of stayed there for about 40 years, before turning to the Right 30 years ago. That rightward turn, I think, is the result of forgetting the lessons of the Depression, and failing to understand that a lot of the prosperity that followed was the result of exactly the programs the Right chafed under, and which they mistakenly believed were actually holding back prosperity.