04-29-2020, 02:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-29-2020, 02:49 PM by Eric the Green.)
(04-29-2020, 09:23 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-28-2020, 02:52 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-28-2020, 12:10 PM)David Horn Wrote: We're at a point that a wholesale reimagining of government is needed, but the US Constitution is designed to make that all but impossible.
The civil war completely changed the US government, and the US Constitution was flexible enough to survive that. WWII also resulted in huge changes. The Constitution isn't the issue here.
The ACW amendments were voted into existence before the Sothern states were admitted to the Union. The post-WW-II changes didn't require Constitutional change. Neither case is similar to the one we have today. Like the post-ACW, the Red/Blue animosity is extreme, but we don't have a subset of states outside the Union. No change will be made when the weak are in control by definition. The 10% of the population living in the smallest states has 46% of the Senate representation. The 10%living in California has 2%. That, short of war or some alternate crisis than this one, is permanent.
Yes, although this Crisis itself (meaning this 4th Turning era) may become that alternative crisis. Once a 4T really gets going, changes could go beyond what we expect. Already even I didn't expect the crisis I foresaw for these months that we are currently in (indicated by Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto all aligned in a very significant place in March-April 2020) to have such an impact, forcing fanatical, right-wing, neo-liberal Republicans to vote for left-wing Keynesian measures.
So, perhaps the split in the union between red and blue that I have foreseen for decades now as possible in the 2025 era is still in the wings. Or, even Republicans seeing the light again; who knows!
If you get up early in the morning well before sunrise, and it's not cloudy, you can still see Mars, Jupiter and Saturn still fairly-close together in the sky.