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(05-18-2019, 07:24 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:

(05-15-2019, 01:38 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: I don't think the problem is the Silents.  Most of them are very old and very out of touch and everyone but them knows it.  And there are only a very few of them--seniority seems to matter in the House and Senate even if it counts for little elsewhere.

There are more than enough powerful Silents. One third of America's billionaires are. You can have a lot of influence via lobbyism. See my thread whether I forgot someone:
http://generational-theory.com/forum/thread-5337.html

(05-15-2019, 01:38 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Rather it seems like the remaining Boomers in the Legislature are keeping the old order alive and it is they who have to go before the 1T will dawn.

You have a point here, though.

(05-15-2019, 02:32 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: According to my hypothesis the last one was the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

Right again... the political system of the US wasn't changed too much by the last Crisis, even if many other things were.

I agree that there are many powerful Silents today and that the older generations are keeping the old order on life support; this may be why this 4T seems to be dragging on without reaching the regeneracy.

However, I don't agree that the political system of the US wasn't changed much in the last Crisis; the New Deal was a big change. It created a vast regulatory bureaucracy which arguably has an extra-constitutional legislative function. The right has a problem with this bureaucracy in part because they see it as operating outside of the constitution (and of just being too freedom limiting). The left can argue that the bureaucracy, while in the executive function, is given its powers by legislation. Trumpism seems intent on tearing down the New Deal while asserting government power in specific focused areas (immigration, trade).