@YARNLADY OK. Let’s ignore current reality. Let’s set everything that has happened after the Great Depression aside as obviously meaningless to what’s going on now. What time period do you draw your enlightenment from, and can you explain what that tells you?
Oh, and while we are on the subject, perhaps you could explain how the Doomsdayers of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden were so wrong. And those that predicted the fall of every great empire From the Egyptians to the British. And those that warned Haitians that their revolution was being hijacked and a banana republic was being set up. Were they full of it too? Are the François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier regeime and the Tonton Macoute just fantasies, or are they too modern to bother thinking about?
Are you suggesting that policy makes no difference? You can steer the ship of state any way you wish and it will never come out differently?