Age of Disorder

[David Horn]

(09-10-2020, 09:30 AM)sbarrera Wrote: Exactly, with politics in the state it's in today, it's a mystery how this change is going to happen.

But here is a hopeful article- it's a long read so I won't repost the whole article, just the first couple paragraphs as a teaser. The article ties into the idea of how Covid-19 is the perfect 4T event (because it forces us by its nature away from individualism).

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...MaGu3w0LTA

Quote:“There are in history what you could call ‘plastic hours,’” the philosopher Gershom Scholem once said. “Namely, crucial moments when it is possible to act. If you move then, something happens.” In such moments, an ossified social order suddenly turns pliable, prolonged stasis gives way to motion, and people dare to hope. Plastic hours are rare. They require the right alignment of public opinion, political power, and events—usually a crisis. They depend on social mobilization and leadership. They can come and go unnoticed or wasted. Nothing happens unless you move.
Are we living in a plastic hour? It feels that way.

Beneath the dreary furor of the partisan wars, most Americans agree on fundamental issues facing the country. Large majorities say that government should ensure some form of universal health care, that it should do more to mitigate global warming, that the rich should pay higher taxes, that racial inequality is a significant problem, that workers should have the right to join unions, that immigrants are a good thing for American life, that the federal government is plagued by corruption. These majorities have remained strong for years. The readiness, the demand for action, is new.

We can only hope.  The entrenched monied elites will fight to their last penny to stop it, and making it permanent requires at least one Constitutional amendment.  No easy task.