11-11-2016, 03:59 AM
(11-10-2016, 04:15 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-10-2016, 01:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The regeneracy has arrived. Surprise surprise, it's Republican! Leading us rapidly to ruin.
It's not a regeneracy at all. If anything, more fragmentation and acrimony are coming.
What sets this apart from the past 4T are Presidential term limits, plus, the fact that Obama started earlier in The Crisis than FDR did. If FDR had started two years earlier and had to leave after two terms, imagine how that would have gone down, given Fr. Coughlin, America Firsters, etc.
Upshot of it is, we are stalling for time, both in terms of dealing with the financial angle and the geopolitical angle.
Worst case, we go full depression and into Anschluss with the SCO. That would end the Anglosphere part of our history and we would leave the current turning system behind. In essence, a terminal 4T. Out of business after that, part of the Eurasianist Empire.
If we manage to stop the moles and SCO insurgents, then we might only have a depression but still keep being part of the Anglosphere. Nonetheless, due to losing time, we would not be prepared for war, and might lose to the SCO. Same end result, goodbye USA as we know it. Maybe the entire Anglosphere would be taken out.
Dark, dark possibilities.
I think we have interpreted a regeneracy as a positive thing that could lead to progressive change, since in the past we have always looked upon 4Ts as conflicts in which the good guys won, and we got more freedom and justice out of it. So it has seemed to me too. But this time we may have voted for a regeneracy that will lead our nation to ruin instead. In other countries, not as lucky as ours, 4Ts can bring defeat and ruin. So it did for Dixie as well.
Or else, another regeneracy is still ahead in about 2022 that will be stirred up by the ruin that Trump and the Republicans will have caused. Remember that, as I see it, the 1861 regeneracy came at the end of that 4T, since in reality it began in 1850 or earlier, after 3 dufus presidents. And our 4T most resembles that one. And mobilization for war was like a second regeneracy in the last 4T, which was what really cured the depression (war spending and victory).
4Ts are likened to "winter" by the authors. This time it is a literal winter, but one that will last beyond this saeculum, because of what we have failed to do-- deal with climate change and pollution. And on Nov.8 we decided not to deal with it effectively for the next 4-6 years, which were the critical decisive years. The American people voted for more severe climate change, and that's what we'll get. Dark realities to come.