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Comments on: The Voice Of Prophecy https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/05/01/the-voice-of-prophecy/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 02 May 2010 16:44:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/05/01/the-voice-of-prophecy/comment-page-1/#comment-51909 Sun, 02 May 2010 16:44:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=14086#comment-51909 After a disaster, people don’t like it when they are reminded that they were told not to do it because it would be a disaster.

Dr. Rice’s phrase, “I don’t think anybody could have predicted …”, is perhaps the ultimate expression of denial in American politics. It is constantly heard after every disaster, and is followed by mountains of evidence that not just some indication of a vague possible disaster was predicted, but an in-depth description of the exact disaster that has occurred.

Whether it was 9/11, Katrina, the Iraq War, the economy, or the Gulf oil gusher, all of these things were detailed in research with footnotes before they happened, and the Village does it best to ignore all the warnings.

How many of the “opinion makers” who show up on TV and the newspaper op-ed pages has actually gotten anything right lately? The penalty for being right is that no one wants to listen to you.

]]> By: John B. https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/05/01/the-voice-of-prophecy/comment-page-1/#comment-51908 Sun, 02 May 2010 14:18:52 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=14086#comment-51908 Great post, Bryan. I’ve said it before, and probably here as elsewhere. Jimmy Carter treated the American public like adults. He tried to educate and reason with us. For his trouble we elected Ronald Reagan, who lied to us like children, pretended our energy profligacy could go on forever, and left the nation so much materially and morally worse off that we continue to suffer the consequences even today.

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