A broken cycle?

[Eric the Green]

(07-19-2019, 11:07 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: It's not going back to a 3T mood because of a failed 4T, it's going back to a 3T mood because the 4T issues are being solved quite fast except for people unfortunate enough to graduate around the recession era and even then we are catching up. The economy is very booming, which is uncharacteristic of a 4T. It's like the 4T is reversing early.

Most of the issues of this 4T are not resolved. Even a booming economy does not end a 4T, as shown in the Civil War era and even during world war II. We are in a similar era, and the country is polarized and getting even more bitter. Congress seems about to erupt like the time of Sumner vs. Brooks. But for most people, the economy still sucks. Inequality continues to get worse. Trump has absolutely nothing to do with whatever economic gains are happening; on the contrary, he is loading the dice for more recessions with his renewed trickle-down policies. Our entire "administrative state" is being dismantled or threatened, and this will bring on destruction and revolution. His actions threaten the constitution and the republic, and that's a crisis too. Trickle-down deregulation and tax breaks for the wealthy doesn't work, and yet we've doubled down on it, thanks to some voters in 3 Rust Belt states.

And we never "go back to a 3T mood." That never happens. What we've had since 2008 is the 1850s redux; a 4T that still seems like a 3T, but isn't. Compromise fails; then the nation splits. That's coming up, in some way or another. We ain't seen nothing yet. The real 4T will happen in the next decade. Progress will resume, but not without some conflict. The logjam of the last 40 years needs to be broken; it cannot continue. That will be tough, but it will happen, starting soon.