I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008

[David Horn]

(06-28-2020, 07:04 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-28-2020, 04:02 PM)Mikebert Wrote: If you think that the problems perceived by the BLM movement, by the Occupy movement, by the Poor People’s Campaign etc. can be solved without taking on the excess elites and the inequality that breeds them, you are in for a rude awakening.

I hope you are right.  I have just been infected by people who are being disappointed in advance by Biden.  He is more an establishment make no waves sort of guy than the advocate of change that would do what he can through the crisis.  It could be that once he has a Democratic congress, and if he can work around the need for 60 votes in the senate to pass anything, that the obstructionism of the Republicans will end, he might implement the whole blue agenda.  It could be that his VP will have the needed amount of fire for change.

But so far the Democrats have run against the senate obstruction, that even the most popular public opinion on respecting minorities and COVID does not slow down the obstructionism.  The regeneracy is being blocked.  This could easily change, but until it starts to change I am not going to say it has changed.

We may be one saeculum away from correcting the inherent power of wealth, or it may never happen. I do believe (or maybe hope is a better word) that we can lessen the imbalance that exists today so the next 1T can be fully productive. We won't be fixing the problem of rampant automation, which is still considered a good thing by most people who haven't taken the full implications into account, but that's coming to a 2T/4T in the next cycle.

The rest of the blue agenda is less contentious, so the PTB will most likely go along without too much fuss. Universal healthcare is a near certainty and some adjustment to the criminal justice system that reduces the number of mostly black men incarcerated and marked by the system as criminals. Free college may be in the works. But total economic equity? Not this time.