[LarryDarrell]

This is truly the Century of American Hubris. From financial deregulation to spreading democracy in the middle east to carbon fiber submarines, we seem determined to ignore complexity, refuse to acknowledge our biases, and throw out every Lesson-Learned from the last 150 years.

We're going to gut the Federal systems like a Tea Party fever dream. And the re-learning of what we truly need is going to be very painful.

[threatofrain]

What's sad is that sometimes you're just off on a new national trajectory and there's no going back ever again. Not everything can be relearned.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

Don't forget about the dropping standards for aviation at boeing!