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In reply to the discussion: Bernie and Trump are wrong on Amazon [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and although change tends to solve, or better, some problems (that's very often why it takes the forms it does), inevitably new problems are created that then must be addressed.
But, hey, go ask conservatives how anxiously "standing athwart history yelling stop!," instead of embracing and directing newly possible needed changes (and bravely addressing those new problems), has been working for them.
Btw, did you know the estimated average life span for people around the planet, not just advanced nations, is now 71.5 years? (!!!) Or that the rate of abject poverty is now about 10% in spite of the growth in population from, especially, all those babies and children who aren't dying?
Thanks mostly to intelligent liberalism, we do progress more than otherwise, even if it's often more like 9 struggles backward for every 10 steps forward.