40000+ views, 400+ comments, all of them negative about the C4C program. This is beautiful. Like I was telling my wife today, the truth is that Americans are having to learn a valuable lesson the hard way. It’s a shame, but I suppose it has to happen every few generations. People forget. Those that lived through these kinds of things twice have mostly died off. Along comes a generation that either doesn’t know any better, or believes that this time it’s different. Well, we all get to take the ride now, and some of us get the consolation prize of being able to say “I told you so.” And hopefully we come out the other side a little wiser, even if we’ve all got sore keisters.
Santayana’s words weren’t a caution, they were a lament.