2020 Presidential Race

I still remember all the #resist and #notmypresident crap. and now the democrats want unity. I think they are going to have to put forth a hell of an effort to try to pull all that off
 
Society has to evolve - no question. Society cannot evolve in a forward direction unless those who make decisions have the acquired wisdom to understand the next step. My point is that kids in HS or college who have yet to take what they've learned, put it to use, understand what it takes to be successful in the world - to even understand what it takes to survive without safety nets have not earned the right to "evolve" society. Someone today with tens of thousand (or worse hundreds of thousands) of educational debt is certainly in no position to tell the rest of us what we need to change. Wisdom is attained through the school of hard knocks; idealism is juvenile fantasy that most humans have from birth. "Sins of the parents" is a term generally born of idealism and a lack of comprehension or worse ... willingness to understand why. You can't rationally define your "religion as "progressive" and pretend it's a forward step, and you for damn sure can't measure the policies of the past based on the newly "enlightened" present. I'm in my 70s and still learning the whys and wherefores; I can promise you haven't acquired anywhere near the wisdom people my age have - we've all been where you are and understand with age how stupid we were back then.

That missed my point though. My point is, perhaps we shouldn't care what people of 100 years ago would think of where the country is now. Many of them had flawed ideals about what the country should be in the first place.

I don't say that to denigrate these people. I'm a firm believer that you have to judge people from the era they lived. The founding fathers were radical thinkers in their time. But I would venture to say they would be outraged if they knew Blacks and women would have the right to vote.
 

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