05-16-2020, 07:25 PM
I’ll shoot from the hip some. I haven’t made a comparison of the US and elsewhere a big thing. Others can feel free to suggest other factors.
But the US Constitution features the slave compromises. The rural and conservative faction has an artificial advantage in our democracy. The Senate, the Electoral College, the difficulty of passing an amendment, add up. As a result, for three plus turnings, the rural and conservative position imposes a big no change policy on our politics.
Thus, by the time the crisis configuration of prophet-nomad-civic comes around and a grey champion gets thrust forward, there is a big backlog of change that the country is ready for. Slavery had to be abolished. The government had to regulate the economy. We could not remain isolationist in a world featuring fascist expansionism. The government has to be science based, not driven by political fantasies.
S&H looked closest at the American crises which included this pro conservative bias in our Constitution. Elsewhere the bias does not exist. For example many European countries flirted with socialism, with a government working for the people. The tendency towards building up three plus turnings of change that had to be released now may well not be present. The crisis time could well feature the need to move in a different direction.
Opinions?
But the US Constitution features the slave compromises. The rural and conservative faction has an artificial advantage in our democracy. The Senate, the Electoral College, the difficulty of passing an amendment, add up. As a result, for three plus turnings, the rural and conservative position imposes a big no change policy on our politics.
Thus, by the time the crisis configuration of prophet-nomad-civic comes around and a grey champion gets thrust forward, there is a big backlog of change that the country is ready for. Slavery had to be abolished. The government had to regulate the economy. We could not remain isolationist in a world featuring fascist expansionism. The government has to be science based, not driven by political fantasies.
S&H looked closest at the American crises which included this pro conservative bias in our Constitution. Elsewhere the bias does not exist. For example many European countries flirted with socialism, with a government working for the people. The tendency towards building up three plus turnings of change that had to be released now may well not be present. The crisis time could well feature the need to move in a different direction.
Opinions?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.