11-29-2016, 06:08 PM
(11-29-2016, 05:50 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-29-2016, 05:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 1920 -- last decade of the 3T leading into the Great Depression/WWII Crisis, and essentially a reversion to the values of the Gilded Age (except for bad patent medicines and mass employment of children in mines and factories).
Does Donald Trump suggest a return to the political norms of the Gilded Age? Yes.
Trump and all the rest of the Red Boomers (and fragment of Red Xers) who support him are basically post seasonal. They lament the passing of the 3T, they want to go back to it. They are attempting a counterrevolution to defeat history itself.
I sure hope the Left don't fall into the same trap of trying to return to the past conflicts of the 3T or more likely in the case of the Left the conflicts of the 2T.
Instead ... I say ... FORWARD!!!!
The whole crew looks terribly post-seasonal, even at times seeking a return to the 3T of the previous Saeculum. I think he wants to put race relations back fifty years (when real estate owners could discriminate at will against dark-skinned people), labor-management relations back ninety (who needs unions when Big Business needs the freedom to work people to death?), and environmental concerns back 120. Count on the Hard Right to get their 'cultural ' issues -- and I don't mean "Brahms vs. Wagner" -- pushed onto us all.
It all asks for trouble.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.