(March 14, 2018 at 10:30 am)Jehanne Wrote:(March 14, 2018 at 9:54 am)alpha male Wrote: If we're on our way to becoming a failed state, that means we're currently a successful state.
If progressive action is still needed, that means such progress hasn't yet happened.
So, we became successful by not being progressive.
Exact opposite. Trump is a right-wing extremist who caters to right-wing extremists; just look at his judicial appointments. A return to Democratic control will, at a minimum, mean the maintaining of the status quo. The election of Lamb in a heavily Republican district is a repudiation of the Tea Party and evangelical Christian fundamentalist political policies, at least by the majority.
If one watches the entire new COSMOS series with Neil deGrasse Tyson, he touches upon the subject of backlash to change in our species, in just about every episode. He brings up many examples in world history, that when those in society make a discovery that the powers feel threatened by, the powers try to keep a lid on that progress and or squash it.
Humans do not like their social norms upset, and change is hard for many, and that is why you are seeing the right flip it's lid today. But the good part of our species is that others can and do find ways to get past that stubborn stagnation of trying to cling to the past.
