[TheRealThing]

All this nostalgia for a return to normalcy from you guys. If there is one thing history teaches it's that a culture cannot 'go back.' We've moved the country forward according to the liberal elitists, fundamentally transformed the face of America. We're light years farther down the road than any concerns for virus abatement may have rationally taken us.

Overall, I have bemoaned the hope and change mania from the day I began posting on this forum. Change America, the greatest society on earth to what? Once not so long ago, the JFK years for example, progressive liberals were looked down upon as kooks within the Democrat Party. But they began to gain favor among minorities by exploiting the very social wedge issues that Americans had already come to terms with through the convictions of their own moral dictates. But the tactic has worked so well that libs used it to totally take over the Democrat Party, and later generational Democrats have been taught to look down upon anybody not in agreement with the rationales of liberal-progressive wing of the party. 

We've traded the vision and sacrifice of the Founders for a bowl of pottage. We've undermined, re-litigated and redefined the very Constitutional documents which established the authority under which social change could peacefully and legally occur. We all saw or could read about, the time when America rectified her civil rights short comings and right a great moral wrong. That was a societal reckoning born of a national willingness to do right.

Now, you can insist that 'the people' have to be forcibly regulated and/or legislated into some social conformance by government if you want. I say that is the definition of tyranny. Meaningful change can only occur by choice. Again, America made one such choice, I saw it. Same is true with this ridiculous idea that government can meaningfully control the environment or the spread of a new virus along party lines. Can you define absurd? We will all regret the transformation, and be haunted by what once was normal. We have given up on the only country in the history of humanity in which the citizens had the power of change in their own hands and gave it up to those who could be corrupted by power. It is the Easter season, America has had her "give us Barabbas" moment.

Nonetheless it is good to see this spirit of détente on here. I have always said when the real enemy shows himself, the American  citizenry will all feel as overtaken and self incriminated as when the Principal made his sudden entrance on a high school cafeteria in the midst of a food fight. America will feel embarrassed and stupid but of far more lament, she will be immutably transformed.