Wisconsin: The Future is Now

Julie and I decided not to travel this year. We don't want to miss 2012. 

You don't get a lot of chances to see a whole year of history being made.  Last year was one such year. This year, 2012, is another. 

We are no longer futurists.  While we will continue to predict the big changes, our main work is we now explain the present. And being in Wisconsin, we get to both explain and participate in history.

John Nichols, in his 'history' book Uprising about the Wisconsin protests and recall efforts of last year, agrees, writing, "...you realize that you are not waiting for the future anymore. You are in it."   Don't miss 2012, it is another historic year.

Comments

[D. P. Lubic]

Living history may be cooler than reading about it later, but living through it can be rougher. Take as an example this nonsense from what I have taken to calling the Repugnant Ones:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/06/460038/scott-walker-gender-pay/

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/09/460917/wisconsin-state-senator-money-less-important-wome/

It is crazy, and sad, to see what has happened to the Republican party. I used to think it was a rather dull bunch, but they supposedly understood business, and for a while made what sounded at the time like a refreshing breath of air to call for a return to "traditional values"--God, country, honor, honesty, all that stuff. Yet look at what they really turned out to be--phony, hypocritical, greedy, and not really for honor, honesty, or it seems, even God and country, and so often, crazy besides.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/05/458892/finance-expert-oil-price-speculation-wall-street/

I never was a Ronald Reagan fan, but I wonder if Reagan would have a chance at political office today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRuWMoEWE1E&feature=youtu.be

[Julia King Tamang]

Yes. Living history is so much cooler than reading it.