Somebody, and I forget who, said that those who fail to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again. History, it would appear, never happened as far as our current political masters are concerned, and they certainly don’t appear inclined to learn anything from it were they ever to find it! Watching events unfold there is a numbing predictability about it; you know what is going to happen next. In one of my occasional discussions with a colleague recently, I talked about the dreadful magnetism of the political brouhaha that we see daily as the presidential race (what race…we already know the winner) gets into gear. Continue reading »
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