03-27-2019, 12:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2019, 12:36 AM by Eric the Green.)
(03-25-2019, 09:59 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(03-23-2019, 08:50 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Obama is a young, idealistic cool dude, and he broke ground by being the first black president.
Is he that idealistic? He is probably less idealistic than Bush (an Apollonian prophet) or Clinton (a Dionysian prophet). I agree with the following diagnosis:
https://www.thegenxfiles.com/2009/03/30/...nt-page-1/
Obama, as a Generation X’er, does not seem to have the same righteousness of our previous two presidents. Although he is certainly has a direction for the country, it seems to be based much more on pragmatic goals (both short and long-term) rather than an ideal state that we should try to achieve. He is willing to compromise ideals to try to attain practical ends.
Though on this photo he does look like a boomer!
![[Image: 2012050134obama.jpg]](https://www.catholic.org/files/images/ins_news/2012050134obama.jpg)
Yes, and so he is -- a boomer hybrid right on the cusp. And his Uranus is still in Leo, which as I see it makes him more Boomer than Xer, although overall, 1961 is the cusp year for that position as well, but so is early 1962.
Obama was certainly an idealist. He had a definite vision of where to take the country that was in accord with the needs of the time. He wanted to end the wars and uphold the ideal of a sustainable planet in the face of climate change. That is true idealism, and reflects the idealism of all the blue boomers in office today; and the same was true of Bill Clinton. Both were compromisers, so that seems a trait perfectly compatible with being a prophet idealist.
Some boomers are self-righteous, arrogant, stubborn extremists (like Trump), but that doesn't mean we prophets all are. He was miles and miles more idealistic than W. Bush, who was a strong extreme reactionary. His "righteous ideal" was to restore American imperialism, which was already long-outdated. He opposed almost all the policies that were needed in his time. Genuine idealists look to the future, not the past. Genuine idealists seek to enact the policies that will solve problems; so-called "realists" merely seek to defend the interests of those who currently have wealth and power. Blue Boomers are genuine prophet-idealists; Red Boomers are fake ones. That's the real division here between Clinton and Obama on one hand, and W. Bush and Trump on the other.