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Right Derek but you gotta understand the notion of...hedging, I guess? Meaning things never go too far.

Neither me nor Demonyo are “naive”.

Given the general political tendency of a society, there is always a counterbalance for any sort of movement to return it to... yes, the status quo.

For every excited person on one end, there is a scared person on the other.

Right or wrong, societies like their status quo. Just like you like your NHS and our seniors like their Social Security and Medicare.

There is aways a seesaw, a pendulum, that moves things back to some sort of center.

This center may shift over time, but for every revolution there is a counterrevolution.

Obama got everyone excited for change. Then bailed the auto industry and brought on a fair attempt at universal health care, the most successful in American history. Result? The Tea Party was born.

The Tea Partiers were activists and eventually took over Congress and blocked Obama at every step.

Yet for all of the Tea Party’s revolutionary or counterrevolutionary force (depends on your perspective), Paul Ryan was never gonna dismantle social security. Old people would never let him.

I get where you’re coming from, but you have to account for the equal and opposite reaction to every action and see how history operates.

The hippies begat Nixon, Carter begat Reagan, Obama begat the TP, globalization begat Trump, etc etc.