General Discussion

I still remember my middle brother bobbing & weaving, making Dad miss literally every punch, on my maternal grandparents' porch. Thereafter, our older brother added bobbing & weaving to his style in the ring. Yet we never thanked Dad for that! (My brother liked the young Olympic champion Smokin' Joe Frazier, which may have also influenced him! But by the time decades later when Joe's son Marvis would help me train my son, the punches had caught up to my oldest brother.)

And definitely you are right about our inability to change the past. We can use history to learn from, including cycles in politics and in empires, we can't change it. Nor can we hope tomorrow brings about changes, unless we start changing today. And before we can begin to make changes today, we need an understanding of the causes of the political changes that have made it more difficult for us to win presidential and congressional elections. We are now on a playing field that is significantly different than it was in the past.