03-16-2020, 12:56 PM
(03-15-2020, 10:57 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I'm not sure. The dominant time of the last Awakening was during the progressive era, the tax and spend period. I would have the heart of it run from the Beatles arrival in America to Nixon's election. At a guess they would have thrown a bunch of money at it and tried to solve the problem. There might have been more confidence. America was believed widely to be able to do anything. The 'ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" mentality was in place. People were more ready to sacrifice.
Maybe less fearful and zany, more rational and optimistic. I don't know though. The next so called awakening could be very different. I am not sure the Industrial Age pattern is holding well.
But they refused to go to war for their country. The “ask not—-“ mentality unraveled big time at this point.