As long as I've been alive, I've heard this drumbeat. There were times when I actually believed that it was a once-and-done issue. That when a Dem got elected, the issue would be resolved and that would be that.
As long as we have capitalism, we'll give incentives to folks with high productivity. And the Al Gore's of the world will grab power by fostering greed in the less productive and taking away the incentives of the successful thereby enslaving them. Why go to college? Why not shrug?
When a Democrat is in office, they tell us all is right with the world, though it is actually a false sense of security that we feel. They even toss out a "crisis" that never existed before which is always the fault of a Republican constituency. Examples would be the 1970's Carter Administration Gas Crisis, The 1980's Homeless Crisis brought on by the evil Reagan Administration, and the 1990's Clinton Administration Health Care Crisis. We must shun Republicans and elect the Democrats as our only logical saviors to these ills if we want to keep the euphoria they bring coming. Only by casting our votes for Republicans can we screw this false euphoria up for ourselves (sound familier?).
Now, when there is a Republican in office, everyone hates everyone else. Rich over Poor. Black over Whitey. In more recent times, Straights over Gays. It's called Class Warfare. EARTH TO ALGORE...I'm damn sick of fighting something that only "seems to" exist when a Democrat gets on the soapbox to tell us it does.
If there was a gasoline crisis in 1976, why do we still have reasonably affordable gasoline a quarter of a century later? It's because DEMOCRATS MADE IT UP AND PLAYED CHICKEN LITTLE OVER IT TO GET VOTES! Amazing how it was only the CRISIS that dried up & went away, huh?
Where are the humongous numbers of homeless people (circa 1984) living in cardboard boxes, Mr. Gore? NOWHERE, MR. GORE! Some may still exist but they appear to be determined to stay that way of their own volition and they're nowhere near the numbers predicted by your activist friend Mitch Snyder (Talk about "cooking the books"). If these people were such victims of discompassionate Reagan Republicans, why do we not still hear of their plight? Is it that they are the forgotten people BY YOU, THE COMPASSIONATE DEMOCRATS? I suppose these phantoms are easilly enough disposed of...Just stop talking about them & the problem is like IT NEVER WAS, huh?
I'm not even going into the Hitlery version of "Nightmare on E.R. Street"...We should now ALL know the script like the cold of a doctor's stethoscope.