09-15-2018, 06:22 PM
(09-15-2018, 12:06 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-14-2018, 08:18 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: But, anyway, with the crazy timing of the cycles after the mid 40s, an age shift, and the failed crisis, we are pretty much in uncharted territory. We need a progressive juggernaut, a holding on to the White House and Congress that will not see saw after two years of aggressive progressive rule. It is not clear that Trump has managed that, though I do see it likely that he has flipped the see saw. I could see the reds electing a kinder gentler candidate in the mold of Trump or Palin if no one acknowledges their point of view. They could convince themselves that the problem is Trump, not their values, and look again for someone to make the old red values work.
I do not think the old red values will work, but I do not think the reds are quite ready to admit it.
The same may be true for the old Blue values. And let's be frank about it, the neoliberals held all the Blue cards in the 3T and Obama wasn't an improvement in the 4, but both sides of this argument have flawed thinking, though the flaws in the Red side are gargantuan. No one can convince me that handing over the world's economy and political structure to the private sector has any potential to make life better for those not already making all the money and wielding all the power.
But we still need a viable alternative. Where's the 21st century's John Maynard Keynes?
Piketty, but he is better described as a neo-Marxist. He admits it.
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.
