Has the regeneracy arrived?

[Eric the Green]

(02-11-2020, 08:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: People trying to protect a situation that has its origin before the Crisis will often find such untenable. The people with the most entrenched interests but the least competency for protecting them stand to lose the most. Economic equivalents of the gravy train for corrupt, amoral, unimaginative elites can derail. 

Most people will put the survival of themselves and people like them above the rescue of effete interests. The enforcement of class privilege and monopoly power will be impossible. In some places the choice will be by vote; in some places the consequences will be coups, revolutions, and military debacles. 

What wins in a Crisis Era is in the end principle (even if the Boom elite in America seems to have had no principle higher than selfish indulgence), pragmatism, and reason. Sentimentality, perversion, and cruelty fail. As the Christmas carol I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day from the American Civil War puts it:

"The wrong shall fail, the right prevail". 

In America I expect the GOP to resort to dirty tricks to save their hold on power: intimidation, treachery, and outright fraud. Will such work? God help us if it does. The GOP has a shrinking coalition and a grossly-inadequate President.

I'd say that was well said.