With CBO predictions of Obamacare suppressing employment and now with those august number crunchers projecting that the liberal deep yearning for enforced egalitarianism through a puffed up minimum wage would also be a job killer - and as well of course considering all the other dreary artifacts and manifestations of decline and enervation we've been privileged to witness with the ascension of liberalism's chosen one - maybe it's time to do a thought experiment - imagine alternate futures where a Reagan is allowed over a generation to do whatever he wants in accordance with his conservative principles and an Obama likewise according to his liberal sympathies is given a generation to do as he sees fit - in short in these imagined timelines the two can act as unfettered representatives of their ideological givens - in which future after some twenty-five years of guidance under these ideological wherewithals would America still exist as a prosperous and powerful nation? I think we all know the answer to that. For the modern liberal, the most important part of belief is denial.