10-06-2018, 12:10 PM
"But people don't love this time; it has too many insecurities, too much inequity, too much corruption, too much madness, and horrible politics. Our time, due to the aforesaid faults, has planted the seeds of its own destruction."
I'm not sure. It is remarkable how much more peace and prosperity people had up until the 2008 crash, and now there has been a weak recovery thanks to Obama. People around the world have progressed in many places. The politics would have been better in the USA too if not for some close elections in 2000 and 2016, which our system allowed the greedy to virtually steal, and if younger people had lived up to their civic archetype and voted to support Obama in the midterms of 2010 and 2014. I do think it was more about laziness and not being informed about civic responsibility, more than disappointment with Obama, although the latter played a role. Meanwhile the Tea Party and other manifestations of the 1980s regression were active and kept us from progressing as we should have for 40 years and counting.
So, because of this political failure, we are now stuck with a Supreme Court that could well squelch anything which reformers try to do, and lock in the Reagan/Tea Party legacy for another generation. Elections may well go more and more Democratic, but they may not go Democratic enough, IF the Supreme Court manages to lock in continued disappointment and disillusion among voters. Only if the millennials and other liberal and diverse groups are militant enough, and not complacent, will they realize the scale of the problem, and act to pack or reform the Supreme Court so that progress can resume. At the least, this will prolong the 4T as long as I have stated it will be prolonged, and a 1T that will not be as peaceful and secure as many here hope.
It is truly a tragedy that the religious and free-market fundamentalists have locked us into the past, supported by a 240-year old constitution that locks in control by the (former?) slave states and other redneck states, as well as the failure of liberals and millennials to vote in 2010 that has resulted gerrymandered state elections, and which now the Court will likely hold in place. Money is to be held as speech until the Court changes, keeping the oligarchy in power. The possibility of a national divorce and resettlement process can't be discounted. Susan Collins and Sandra Day O'Connor now bear the greatest responsibility for our political failure. People don't realize that Kavanaugh is not only unfit personally, but that a right-wing Court is truly a damper on ALL hopes for a constructive century ahead.
If not for the politics which the likes of Classic Xer and Galen support, we could have had a prosperous century without too much trouble. We could be free of a lot of the problems which held us down in previous centuries. Some other societies may well move ahead while the USA stalls and falls, although the problems like climate change which Reagan/Gingrich/Tea Party/Trump have caused also affect the whole world. It is only the temptations of free-market dogma along with religious regression (i.e. abortion fixation) that are leading us to doom. Only a decisive blue victory and Supreme Court reform and/or packing during THIS 4T will save any chance we still might have. Otherwise the downward spiral cannot be rescued in a future 2T or 4T. Regression and failure will be too locked in, I'm afraid. We must realize in this 4T that Kavanaugh is not acceptable, or we fail forever. What a horrible man he is, and how horrible all like him are who support him.
I'm not sure. It is remarkable how much more peace and prosperity people had up until the 2008 crash, and now there has been a weak recovery thanks to Obama. People around the world have progressed in many places. The politics would have been better in the USA too if not for some close elections in 2000 and 2016, which our system allowed the greedy to virtually steal, and if younger people had lived up to their civic archetype and voted to support Obama in the midterms of 2010 and 2014. I do think it was more about laziness and not being informed about civic responsibility, more than disappointment with Obama, although the latter played a role. Meanwhile the Tea Party and other manifestations of the 1980s regression were active and kept us from progressing as we should have for 40 years and counting.
So, because of this political failure, we are now stuck with a Supreme Court that could well squelch anything which reformers try to do, and lock in the Reagan/Tea Party legacy for another generation. Elections may well go more and more Democratic, but they may not go Democratic enough, IF the Supreme Court manages to lock in continued disappointment and disillusion among voters. Only if the millennials and other liberal and diverse groups are militant enough, and not complacent, will they realize the scale of the problem, and act to pack or reform the Supreme Court so that progress can resume. At the least, this will prolong the 4T as long as I have stated it will be prolonged, and a 1T that will not be as peaceful and secure as many here hope.
It is truly a tragedy that the religious and free-market fundamentalists have locked us into the past, supported by a 240-year old constitution that locks in control by the (former?) slave states and other redneck states, as well as the failure of liberals and millennials to vote in 2010 that has resulted gerrymandered state elections, and which now the Court will likely hold in place. Money is to be held as speech until the Court changes, keeping the oligarchy in power. The possibility of a national divorce and resettlement process can't be discounted. Susan Collins and Sandra Day O'Connor now bear the greatest responsibility for our political failure. People don't realize that Kavanaugh is not only unfit personally, but that a right-wing Court is truly a damper on ALL hopes for a constructive century ahead.
If not for the politics which the likes of Classic Xer and Galen support, we could have had a prosperous century without too much trouble. We could be free of a lot of the problems which held us down in previous centuries. Some other societies may well move ahead while the USA stalls and falls, although the problems like climate change which Reagan/Gingrich/Tea Party/Trump have caused also affect the whole world. It is only the temptations of free-market dogma along with religious regression (i.e. abortion fixation) that are leading us to doom. Only a decisive blue victory and Supreme Court reform and/or packing during THIS 4T will save any chance we still might have. Otherwise the downward spiral cannot be rescued in a future 2T or 4T. Regression and failure will be too locked in, I'm afraid. We must realize in this 4T that Kavanaugh is not acceptable, or we fail forever. What a horrible man he is, and how horrible all like him are who support him.