Mike thinks I think about this stuff too much
So we had a power problem at work and I ended up hanging out to restart the server afterwards. This involved me and Mike sitting around waiting for the power guy. During this time I shared my thoughts on the differences between the political parties. His initial response was something like "your probably right, but you realized that almost no one thinks about it this much". This kind of amused me.
Anyway he's reading John Adams right now and highly recommends it. Apparently there's a pretty good long period there where the popular opinion of the fledgling US was behind attacking France. I'm assuming they were prepared to surrender. During this time John Adams basically held us back from military action.
Anyway we left the conversation agreeing that:
A) we live in the best country in the world
B) despite everything the future for the US is going to be just fine
C) that we have more to be concerned about in our local and state government than in our federal government
D) That the rich will likely continue to get richer
It was a nice chat.
