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Originally Posted by spence
Sorry, I've been rushing a lot these days.
Quite.
A lot of past tense in that post.
-spence
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Would that be a bad thing? I'm sure your familiar with what happens when we forget the past. Besides, technically, in history, it is only the past that can be described. Even as I put words to screen, they have already receded back from the moment. Anyway, my response was to your response to Jim in Ct's post about something in the past to which you replied to something I said about the past. In those respects all of my reply would be "past," but not in necessarily in the "past tense." Much of it was in the present or present perfect tense. In terms of tenses, it was, as you like to say, "balanced."
But you did, by erroneously saying that I said Coolidge was the last "conservative" President, you did manage to dodge Jim in Ct's question asking about reactions to "conservative" Presidents. There are, of course, many examples of such reactions. I remember when the economy grew at a persistent and modest 2% per year under Bush Senior. The left continuously complained that it was the worst economy since the Great Depression. Now, of course, with nearly constant lesser growth, we are told that we should be optimistic. That things are going well and in the right direction. Just one little example to Jim's qestion among the many many that could be given.
But the "conservative" "liberal" labels hide a more serious malady.
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