plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Updated,
11.22.18:

What I forgot to mention is that people have been saying things have been  going downhill for a long time now.  When I was a kid, people were saying that.  Yet, things are holding up.  Maybe people are always saying that.  Hence, the more things change, the more it stays the same.

Once things really change, then that's it.  You may never be able to go back.  It is easy to downplay the doomsterism, but there may well be something to be worried about after all.

11.21.18:

In Google Translate, it says "what goes around comes around".  I was looking for the saying that the more it changes, the more that it stays the same.

Anyway, Limbaugh is talking about why he is "bullish on America".  He says kids are indoctrinated.  Guess what?  So were we back in the day.  I'm sure of it.  We sang patriotic songs.  The time that I grew up was the same as Limbaugh, which was the height of the Cold War.  We were indoctrinated into patriotism back in the sixties.

Does the indoctrination "stick"?  Evidently not.  Within a few years, the Vietnam War started to heat up, and the kids who went to school in those years were marching in the streets.  Anti-Establishment songs filled the airwaves.

The question can be turned on itself, and get us back to today.  Will this indoctrination that the left is giving the kids "stick"?  What makes it stick is how it is internalized.  Once it becomes a part of the ego, well, it just might stick.  What you believe in is what you believe in.  It is very difficult to change that.  But it can.

Keep in mind that things are always in motion.  What seems etched in stone can change in a few years.  Consider the 1920's.  Back then, it took only the first four years of the Great Depression in order to change our politics in a profound way.  America went from being about business to a point where capitalism was doubted.  That has stuck with us, and apparently has gotten even more entrenched.

Another thing that may be different today is these people seem to want to do away with the Constitution.  If that ever happens, it might be hard to get it back.  Not to mention a few other things that could happen which may be hard to reverse.  For instance, if the dollar is no longer the king of currencies, it may have a really bad effect on your standard of living.  One thing that might end this is if the US loses a big war.  In fact, a lot of bad things may happen if the US loses a big war.  What I am saying is that a lot of what is taken for granted can end tomorrow.

People need to be more thoughtful about what they are doing and saying.  What you lose you could regret for the rest of your life.