The world is always gone mad, the average Joe is always screwed up and easily mislead, we’re always doomed for one reason or another. These things are givens. Conservatives just need to embrace the suck and be willful. Willfullness and tenacity are how you win in this imperfect world of ours. Brittleness, perfectionism, and complaining are how you lose. I want to see those traits on their side, not our side, because I want to win.
because I want to win.
And I agree that we are always gone mad. But it’s like a guy that always overspends and maxes out his credit cards. You don’t do that ad-infinitum. Eventually you are sitting on the sidewalk because the sheriff has kicked you out of your house. And three years later you are on a freeway offramp holding up a cardboard sign that ends in the words, “God bless”.
The world’s economy is very close to that point. It’s not being a doomsayer to prepare for that any more than it was being a doomsayer to be a jew in mid 1930’s Germany that took a boat to England.
As a farmer knows that the time of harvest is near, we are instructed to recognise the signs of the times.