I have learned over time that it can ALWAYS get worse! The real question is whether it will ever get any better. I find it hilarious that people who considered themselves to be reasonably intelligent were telling me in ‘08 that, “We can’t do any worse than what we have now.” I should be rolling in the floor laughing at their stupidity but somehow I just can’t find it in me to crack a smile right now.
I suppose I should just console myself by remembering how I, in my infinite wisdom, told them that in a couple of years they would be eating those words. Somehow that ain’t no comfort neither as my Grandpa would have said. It’s pure hell being right when you want so badly to be wrong.
Just wait til Hillary gets elected and we’ll be saying, “not even Bathouse Barry was that bad ...”
Yup. The Roman historians who sucked air at the mention of Caligula, never saw Caracalla or Elegabalus or Maximinus Thrax.
It always can get worse, and -- here is Gibbon's message -- very often, it does.