From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 17:29:45 MDT
Adrian writes
> Samantha Tennison wrote:
>
> > Forest Bishop wrote:
> >
> > ""There isn't too much really new in the current US
> > psychohistorical picture. Much of it was predictable,
> > and predicted in overall trend. The War on Terrorism,
> > for example (but not by name of course)."
> >
> > If it's so predictable, do you mind sharing where you
> > see this going then?
>
> See McCarthyism, Watergate, Vietnam War, et cetera. The historical
> trend is that eventually someone goes Too Far and it gets publicized,
> at which time the American public (often violently) shifts things back
> towards liberty.
Yes, I think comparisons between any Western nation today and
the Third Reich are premature. In the 1960s, a huge number of
people thought that it was all over, with the way that Nixon
was operating and the various perceived infringements on liberties.
Often the name of the US was spelled "Amerika", to emphasize what
many people thought was occurring.
I think that you've identified the main mechanism here, although
of course the future is never certain, and, as they say, the
price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Lee
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