[Thank You Rush]

Very good - thanks. We have a lot of modern day Mark Twains today but they don’t get the recognition they’ve earned because they’re all conservatives!

[higgmeister]

You are welcome, but for ages now I have used a little trick to save my sanity, of imagining how nothing in the world is different from comparable things in the past.

Individuals are the same the world over and are no different from now, to Dickens' time, to Shakespear's time, to Chaucer's time and before.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV)

⁹ The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.