Look at it like an invasion. A group of people came into the country and took control of it. They kept that control off and on, in many ways, for about 100 years. During that time, they changed the way things had been done to include many of the country’s base theologies, religion, finance, opportunity, education, wealth distribution, and a few others. An example is like the point that until a short time in the early 2000’s, this group had control of, at least, one of the three ruling bodies, and the supreme court from 1953 to 1969 with Warren in charge and in 1969 when the Burger court took the reins and didn’t do anything to change the liberal policies of the Warren court until 1986 at which time the country’s policies had been cemented in.
A strong new leader steps in in the 1980’s and is, literally, screwed by congress. A soft leader comes in the early 90’s and did almost nothing, followed by a complete disaster for the rest of the decade. Another soft one, early 2000’s followed by an evil one until 2016.
See the pattern? Slowly but surely, that invading group has systematically changed our existence into subservience of there’s whether they have to run things or not. There is an increase in spending. But most of it is to repair the mess those invaders made. And to get rid of this infestation, is going to take time, money, and scratching every inch of the way as they are still around making every effort to hold their ground.
One once said that Rome wasn’t built in a day. A lot more here than just tearing down a city. We’ve got to do that and convince the world we are no longer their unlimited supply of everything from food, money, and protection using the lives of our citizens. But that’s what the invaders caused and too many of our people couldn’t or didn’t stop. And the new guy on the block has to clean it up with almost no help from the people he should be able to count on and is expected, or cursed, with having to fix it in four years what took over 100 to break.
He’s done a lot. But he ain’t God. Don’t expect him to be.
rwood
Great observation — in fact only God is God.
I got into an argument about this in a thread I started yesterday in Religion. There’s the folks who just want their freedom hamburger without thinking about the water that went into making it possible. That only works until desert conditions threaten.