Things Trump Is Doing Right

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-15-2017, 02:07 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-15-2017, 12:38 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: At this point, each faction is still seeing a triumph of their own faction.  My own angle is that you can't have a resolution of the 4T problems unless you can see and address the 4T problems.  However, those with other world views are quite capable of convincing themselves that only their approach can work.

And that's the situation of all 4Ts. One side represents the future, the other the past, and one side wins. A 4T is a battle, not a compromise. Only one side's resolution will be adopted. Only one's side's approach will address the problems, and it alone will work.

The artist archetype is the compromiser. They are virtually absent. Nope. Neither side will compromise now. That's the way it is, and that's the way it should be.

Yes and no. Part of the Grey Champion's role is to build as large a coalition as he can, to bring as much of the country into the new values as possible.

This doesn't mean he can compromise the key values of the transition. The isn't also to say there won't be fire breathing extreme partisans about who will reject with prejudice and scorn any trace element at all of the old values. It's just that if you want to win, you want very broad acceptance of what you want to do. At lower ranks, sure, there are going to be fire breathers, and they indeed have a role to play. I just don't think you want fire breathers all the way at the top.

Oliver Cromwell might stand as an example of a fire breather on top. He oversold his values, which were overturned by the Glorious Revolution. The royalty returned. A wee bit of prudence can be prudent. It is easy for extreme partisan movements to become carried away by success and do more than the culture can absorb. The combination of the New Deal with the Awakening push for civil rights, gender rights, peace and environmental action might well be another example. It isn't these weren't worthy causes, and that the Democrats of the time America was Great shouldn't have struck when the iron was hot. The GIs had an outstanding can do attitude to fix things, and boy did they go about it.

They just gave the conservatives a heavy overdose of Future Shock. The conservatives wanted and to a great extent got a Glorious Revolution style setting back of the clock to an earlier set of values. I can only hope that Trump will be the dying gasp of that.