01-06-2017, 01:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-06-2017, 01:47 AM by Eric the Green.)
(01-05-2017, 05:25 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:(01-05-2017, 03:43 PM)flbones too Wrote: I think it echos the last 4T
Yeah, I think there are more echoes with the previous 4T here in the US, or Britain's last couple of 4Ts when it was the reigning hegemon, than there are with the Glorious Revolution. I mean, what, Oliver Cromwell as Reagan? Dick Cromwell as Bush 41? Charles II as Clinton and Bush 43? The end of the Cold War as the Restoration? The Civil Rights Movement as the English Civil War? Obama as James II? Trump as James II? Those are all silly comparisons, and only silly people would make them. I mean, they both fit into the saecular pattern, but two very different saeculums that played out two very different ways.
Of course Reagan as Oliver Cromwell is ridiculous; Reagan was the counter-revolution, not the revolution. Lyndon Johnson was the appropriate parallel. Very different times, though, no doubt. The point that emerges though, is that both countries and 4T times are at a place where a parliament needs to take over from the king.