re: #278 Belafon

Your post does tie into something I’ve been thinking about. Is there any way we could make a change that big without incurring a crisis first? Ending slavery took a war. The New Deal took both a global economic crash and a war. The things I can think of that changed without a major crisis was Medicare and Apartheid.

I don’t know. To me, the answer to the issue is pretty damned clear. The problem is that too many people, including many of those who would benefit most, and who will suffer most without it, will oppose it with every fiber of their being. They want SOMEONE to blame, and for that SOMEONE to be punished. Our jobs aren’t being stolen by Chinese and Mexicans. They’re being stolen by R2D2 and HAL9000.