05-19-2020, 07:49 PM
Last four Crisis eras:
2020 -- this one. American behavior has changed even before the election and has demonstrated (largely) that Americans are able of changing their ways and taking an economic hit just for survival. There will be a return to normality, but it will be a very different idea of "normal" in political reality and economic relationships. Trump is defeated or else he consolidates dictatorial power.
1944. Allied liberation of Rome. D-Day and effective departures of Romania and Finland from the Axis. If only the Stauffenberg plot had succeeded!
1864 -- Confederacy severed with Sherman's "March through Georgia", after which the Confederacy was doomed.
1778 -- Washington captures Philadelphia, unifying the rebelling colonies as a geographic entity
2020 -- this one. American behavior has changed even before the election and has demonstrated (largely) that Americans are able of changing their ways and taking an economic hit just for survival. There will be a return to normality, but it will be a very different idea of "normal" in political reality and economic relationships. Trump is defeated or else he consolidates dictatorial power.
1944. Allied liberation of Rome. D-Day and effective departures of Romania and Finland from the Axis. If only the Stauffenberg plot had succeeded!
1864 -- Confederacy severed with Sherman's "March through Georgia", after which the Confederacy was doomed.
1778 -- Washington captures Philadelphia, unifying the rebelling colonies as a geographic entity
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.