01-30-2021, 10:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-30-2021, 10:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-28-2021, 12:55 PM)mamabug Wrote: If I had to pick a marker that indicates a point where we had definitely transitioned into a 4T, I would pick Occupy Wall Street and the mirror populist Tea Party Movement (so around 2010/2011 when both took off). We may have started entering the era earlier, but that point was where the seeds of the current conflicts first sprouted.
It was the great recession of 2008 that gave full impetus to Occupy Wall Street, which was also a direct part of the Arab Spring revolutions. As for the Tea Party, no events were needed to arouse them. They had already been in place for decades. All that was needed was someone they oppose being in the White House, which they feel entitled to. The fact the Obama was black made the Tea Party and the succeeding Trump cult even more fanatical.
The Tea Party is the opposite of "populist," a term that has been horribly deformed into meaning an ignorant populace that favors dictators. That's not its true meaning. Its meaning is a movement to bring power back to the common people. The Tea Party are believers in no taxes. Taxed Enough Already. That is the opposite aim. NO! Trickle-down economics does not trickle. It tinkles down. This debate has precisely marked the two major USA political parties since 1896. And as Rachel Maddow said, now we are beginning to remember the last times that somebody promised us a trickle. Trump may be the last president to make this promise.
The definitive statement on Tea Party anti-populist economics:
BOING! Still waiting for the trickle!