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[Bill the Piper]

(05-01-2019, 06:44 AM)sbarrera Wrote: Now going back to the Glorious Revolution, there is a compelling comparison.

• The leader of the country was in the thrall of a foreign power that was an ideological enemy (then, it was James II under the thumb of King Louis XIV of France, now it is President Trump under the thumb of Vladimir Putin)
  
• The country had a sense of identity crisis, a need to assert its true identity and rid itself of the contaminating influence (then it was Protestant England attempting to assert itself, now it is Progressive America)
  

Interesting comparison!
It seems that America has now fully come of age culturally. Early American culture was about imitating European forms, to a lesser extent also ancient Greeko-Roman and Israelite culture. The 60s/70s cultural transformation was an American innovation, it later became widespread in Europe but it has almost no European origins. It drew from Hindu and Native American sources, as well as from the ethos of the American Revolution ("don't thread on me"). In the 1770s the emphasis was on revolt against political "threading", but in 1960s it was more about culture-related aspects of "threading". The Millennial PC movement, which I nicknamed Inclusivism, seems to be building an institutional framework for cultural innovations of the Boomer left, like the GIs gave institutional framework to the (European-derived) Missionary humanism.

It also might be that the sense of identity crisis stems from the inevitable Chinese takeover of global leadership. In such condition, America can resort to being a moral superpower, like Germany already has done.