01-27-2021, 04:32 AM
(01-26-2021, 06:30 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-26-2021, 01:06 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-26-2021, 12:35 PM)mamabug Wrote: Too early to tell what any of this means in a 4T perspective except that it is clear the DNC is acting in full Crisis Mindset (us v. them, our agenda uber alles) while a good half of the GOP still thinks if they cave enough we can get back to a 3T give-and-take. Bodes well for those who welcome the coming Utopia ™, I guess.
Except the crisis pattern is for the progressive side to start solving problems. If the crisis problems are COVID, the economic fallout of COVID, the racial inequality, the red violence, with an honorable mention to global warming, that is all happening. That is all of the executive orders and the legislative agenda. If people are getting sick of all the problems, obstruction and arguments, we are more likely to advance to the high than drop back into the endless debate, to crush the obstruction and anti science.
Not too early at all unless you are in denial. A lot of red folk seem to be. They are projecting Biden as weak and the administration as doing nothing. I am expecting and seeing the crisis focus and drive.
You are going by what occurred in the previous cycle instead of going by where we are at as a nation today. How many Americans need Progressives to tell them the difference between right and wrong, good and bad or need to have them around to fix and sort the inequity associated with a particular race or gender and need them to determine the difference between men and women or boys and girls or determine what we will have to fund and shore up for them remain relevant and keep their power and acquire more power for themselves. Do you know what I think, I think most of America is smart enough, talented enough and advanced enough to get rid of the Progressives altogether and opt to move on together as a country. So, who is overreacting and causing more problems than any of them are worth today.
No, you are stuck in the idea that a 4T can reliably preserve highly-unpopular 3T trends despite their depravity. Donald Trump exemplified that, and he is rapidly becoming irrelevant. You may find it tolerable that people endure ever-increasing hardships on behalf or economic elites devoid of any responsibility except to themselves. The cycle turns, and it casts off the mud.
Quote:Biden is weak and thoughtless and pretty much already on his way out. Who is behind the curve and clinging to Biden and still clinging laurels and beliefs associated with a bygone age. It took one act of red related violence for Washington DC to cut itself off and isolate itself from the rest of the country. What kind of a government does that? It's not a confident government or a strong government or an American based government, its a Democratic government that knows that it has to cheat to win. So, how far are we away from tarring and feathering the Democrats and watching as Democratic cities are over run by millions of riff raff and seeing Democratic heads being removed by guillotines. So, how many years have the Democrats been preaching the blue gospel while lining their own pockets? Welcome to the 4T.
It was Donald Trump who was so weak in character. Nobody expects an exact return to the New Deal era. That treacherous insurrection disrupted a predictable session of Congress, and did nothing more than to disgrace the participants. It had no precedent in American history. Americans have always accepted the definitive result of the Electoral College even when it decided (as in 2000 and 2016) that the second-place finisher in the popular vote won the votes that counted. We live in a federal system, and the states really elect the People.
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.