Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[David Horn]

(02-26-2018, 01:19 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-26-2018, 12:51 PM)David Horn Wrote: We may be heading for a time a lot like the late 19th and early 20th centuries, if the government decays further.  The absence of communal power opens the door to private power, and stalemated government is as good a way to kill communal power as I can see: no coup required.

We may be, and this is exactly the 4T crisis that we face. The competition with this red culture during the remaining 10-11 years of THIS 4T will decide what kind of 1T and 2T we will have, and what kind of country we will have for the foreseeable future.

This assumes that a counter-narrative can be offered, defended and act as a rallying point for the alternative to neo-liberalism.  Count me skeptical.  I don't see any evidence that the Democrats will abandon their culture-warrior stances, and, barring that, there is no other way to create the commonality needed to move hoi polloi, who pay minimal attention to details.  It's like living in a loop.  Atrocious behavior generates anger.  Anger generates action, but the action is split by cultural demands that tend to anger most of the populace.  Atrocious behavior arises, and the loop repeats.  

Until someone with charisma and stature focuses the anger on communal action, this won't change.  The Dems seem incapable of seeing that, or too cowardly to take the risk.