In many ways, we are being re-taught the lessons of the Great Depression, the hard way.

[shockey80]

Over the past 40 years most of the people who lived through the Great Depression passed away. The old beliefs, ideologies, greed, that brought on the Great Depression were re-instituted through propaganda over the past 40 years.

This is why I have always believed history and civics are the most important subjects we can teach are children. Not doing so leads to economic ruin and mass death. We repeat the mistakes of the past.

Yes, this virus is unique, however the response, idealogy to combat it, is old and deadly. It will not work.

[pnwest]

1. Is it terrible to say that if there is one

tiny shred, of a thread, of a silver lining, to be found in all this - it is that those valuable lessons are being re-learned by a new generation?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It seems like the human race needs a periodic ass-kicking

in order to be reminded of certain lessons.

[pnwest]

3. But such a terrible cost, it feels bad to

even say that it’s good the lessons are being learned.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. That's true, but unfortunately that's the way it seems to work.

People get lazy and mean and then something bad happens to remind us that we're all on this planet together and we need to stop fucking up.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. It was the Political

mind set of the Hoover Administration that Corporate American as well as the Banks were the only thing that mattered. And we have seen in real time,how that policy implemented by three Rethug Administrations since 1976 have created another mirroring economic nightmare.

[Hassler]

6. The Great Depression, when another businessman was put

In the WH. Lesson: NEVER elect a businessman with no public service experience.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Yes sir,the hand picked

Turd from the Corporate Outhouse.

[coti]

7. That's why there's a generational cycle of about 80 years.

It's about the human lifespan- when all that accumulated experience just disappears.