[sjmjax]

Thanks for the response and best regards to your mother for what she endured.

Perhaps what I'm trying to say is that the interesting thing about lessons from the past, is that we don't seem to learn anything from past history.

I don't mean some of us individually but society & government in general.

[griswold3]

I agree. If folks understood what is really happening, we would be well on our way back to recovery. But folks are easily deceived with counterfactual arguments (’Stimulus saved us from a depression’)
Obama likens his ‘movement’ to Mandela (”How to be a Good Communist”) and Gandhi (who wanted Soviet Style Communism without the mass murders) and no one bats an eye.
Maybe Marx was right. There is a inevitible progression towards tyranny. People in the end like to be taken care of.