A broken cycle?

[David Horn]

(07-26-2019, 08:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: … So although we face the same slide into fascism this crisis that we saw in the 1930s crisis, it doesn't look like there's a set of two alliances forming up to fight; there is only the tyrants taking over. The only opponent is the rising regeneracy among the people everywhere against them, the long list of uprisings that have happened in the last decade and continue today, and whether they can ever challenge the tyrannies and the reactionaries. Time will tell, but there's your 4T in a nutshell. No "broken cycle" here; we are in it up to our necks! And if you live on the coast, that's a literal statement.

I agree that this is worrisome.  Successfully moving beyond this new paradigm is both mandatory but not guaranteed by any means.  The entire world seems to have given up on the democratic model, because it failed to "lift all boats" as advertised.  So now they're trying "I'll back you if you get me mine and theirs".  At some point, the ones that expect to get their share and the "other" share will find it's not working.  Let's hope it's sooner than later, and not too far down the rat hole that a non-violent recovery is possible.  

I'm more than a little afraid that four more years of Trump and the worldwide move to autocrats in general will not be broken this cycle, and if it is, it will be violent.  Meanwhile, climate change continues unabated, the oligarchs capture more and more of everything, and the degree of hate grows like a weed.

Past success is no guarantee of future success.