What the next First Turning won't be like

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-06-2020, 11:58 AM)David Horn Wrote: The real issues are still out there getting little serious attention: AGW and economic inequality.  Yes, COVID is the most serious at the moment, but it's already being addressed.  Social issues including race and class are perpetual, and may be on a down-trending cycle.  It's hard to know for sure when the public nerve is still throbbing, but let's hope that's true.  Nothing else will get a hearing until that occurs.  

But AGW is existential, and inequality has a history of creating real havoc -- just ask the Bourbons and the Romanovs.  Both are being pushed off the front page, and the political climate makes it unlikely they will reemerge until a serious event forces the issue.  If that's decades in the future, the result will be highly dangerous for everyone.

I am hoping the Republicans don't obstruct or are not in a position to obstruct violent police loosing their immunity and move against structural racism.  That would let the violence associated with the protests fade.  I have a feeling, though, that should the obstruction continue the protests will return with the warmer weather.

I expect the economy will be in very rough shape due to COVD, and Biden will have no choice but to make the rich pay their fair share of taxes.  Whether they rethink the economy is another question.

AGW?  I expect some steps will be taken, but they will be not enough due to COVID's ruining of the economy.  Yah, we could have quite the awakening.  The new prophets will have lots to complain about.  The new version of America First might build in the unravelling, with attempts to claim exclusive use of a good size chunk of the world's resources by a small portion of its population.