In 1929, the conservative Republican version of economics, which preaches freedom of business to do anything imaginable to make a profit without interference from government regulations, under the leadership of a Republican President, gave the nation the Great Depression. It took a Democratic President with a different perspective, years of hard work to pull us out of it. In 2008, after years of conservative Republican trickle-down economics, with massive tax cuts for the wealthy, coupled with killing every progressive regulation on business possible, plus waging two expensive wars off the books with no regard to their impact on massive and growing deficits, another Republican President, gave us the Great Recession. It took almost everything the next Democratic President could bring to bear as a comprehensive and competent leader to pull us out of it. But in 2016, after enduring these reprehensible events, those Americans who are incapable of seeing the glass half full, voted to invest their trust for a better America into the same time-worn policies of conservative Republican economics that have failed the nation so dramatically before. It is as George Santayana so accurately surmised: those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Due to the mind-boggling ignorance of the American voters of 2016, were about to experience some damned uncomfortable repetitions of history.
