03-08-2021, 02:19 AM
(03-07-2021, 07:55 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Somebody once mentioned that Obama acts like an aged, mature Nomad. Like a Nomad president during a 1T.
I think I did. The map and most of the material with it come from a site that discuss elections and not the generational theory, although elections have historical reality behind them. After 2012 I saw the comparative successes of Obama and Eisenhower and figured that similarities of temperament are more likely in people born about seventy years apart than among people born twenty years apart.
I have looked at the electoral maps shown in David Hackett Fisher's Albion's Seed. Those maps do not go into the Obama Presidency, but mine does. Statewide cultures say much. It is amazing that Eisenhower was the first Republican to win Virginia since Hoover in his 1928 blowout... and that Obama was the first Democrat to win Virginia (aside from the LBJ blowout of 1964) since Ike won it twice. (Electoral blowouts say more about the failure of a nominee than they say about states). I would assume that the states that showed a flip in partisan orientation did not so much change their ideologies as much as the Parties did.
Even so, 2020 looks much like a pattern out of elections of 2008 and 2012, and Joe Biden is definitely not a Reactive/Nomad.
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.