Elizabeth Warren, You Can't 'Prevent' the Past

History is unlikely to repeat itself in exactly the same way (putting aside the possibility of what Nietzsche calls the "eternal return of the same"). The next crisis is unlikely to unfold exactly like the last one did. This isn't Battlestar Galactica where "all this has happened before, and all this shall happen again." In any case, nothing we pass today is going to travel back in time and prevent 2008 from occurring.