Who Can Beat Trump?

[David Horn]

I had to give this some thought before I responded.

(08-22-2018, 08:22 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-22-2018, 07:32 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Life is more about survival, as this is a Crisis Era.

And yet, we have not yet seen a regeneracy.  We have not seen one set of values take over and mow down everything in the path.  We have not seen the trial and error of a crisis, we have only seen the trial and failure of a false regeneracy, ideas which just do not work so the movement fails.  We do have two sets of values taking turns.

We are due for a Crisis by the calendar.  We would be crisis bound if the Industrial Age pattern were holding.  I am dubious.  Add 1964 as the height of the awakening to half of four score and seven and we are well overdue.

We are seeing a faux rejection of the establishment by Trump.  We have a movement to reject Washington DC which could have been a regeneracy if real, and some will say it is a regeneracy.  I do not see it as sincere, as it incorporates The Swamp, so it is failing spectacularly as a false regeneracy.  Bush 43's invasion of Iraq also failed.  The Democrats similarly failed to capture enough ongoing votes to create anything like the New Deal.

Maybe in the near future...

First, I'm not sure we are having a definitive 4T this time. Does that make it a failed one? I don't know. We may decide, as a nation, to strike-off in a new direction. We certainly haven't done well following the old paradigms or the Trumpist alternative either. The only real problem I see to this resolving, and a regeneracy blossoming, is the toxic media environment. We're all siloed, and only listening to the voices we want to hear. To break that cycle will require something more dramatic than impeaching a President, I'm afraid. Another economic collapse, with no solution in sight, will certainly scare the bejesus out of everyone. The same applies to a war on our soil. I don't see either happening.so it will probably be a slow spin to an unacceptable bottom before the body politic awakens, looks around and says, "Damn! We need a whole new batch of politicos and a new social and political contract to boot." The very obvious movement to replace humans in all work positions should hurry that along … or not. In any case, will that devolve into war? It's hard to say