pyotr filipivich wrote:

Strange. There seem to be a lot of "Libertarians" who seem to
believe otherwise. Or at least seem to believe that if they could
only get their guy elected President - He could fix everything. By
Executive Order if necessary, apparently.


LP members specialize in believing at least three impossible things before
breakfast. Do you thing the Democrats and Republicans are any different? Do
you think a Republican president in 2016 will fix anything? Do you think the
Tea Party contingent, most of whom don't really know the history of their
beloved Constitution, would fix anything if they came to power? Have those
dirty, commie progressives accomplished much?

I've watched too many swings of the pendulum. One of the better professors
in one of my college physics classes was into interesting demonstrations.
For one he constructed a pendulum from a bowling ball suspended from about a
20' wire attached to an eye in the ceiling of the lecture hall. He held the
ball firmly against his chin, let it go, and stood immobile. Of course, the
ball did not knock him on his ass on its return, much to the disappointment
of the class. A pendulum only swings back and forth within defined
constraints and left to its own devices will eventually stop at its
equilibrium point.

Conservatives would like to reach out, grab the ball, and hold it stationary
but it always slips out of their fingers. Progressives would like to speed
the pendulum up but their random pushes never in crease the amplitude to get
it beyond the range of isochronism.