06-12-2021, 12:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2021, 12:26 PM by Eric the Green.)
(06-10-2021, 10:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Should this Crisis Era result in electoral changes that disenfranchise people on such questionable principles as property ownership or income or voting become distorted into some extreme mockery of democracy (let us say, employers vote on a worker's behalf, then the result will be anything but triumphant. Major changes in the way people do things -- from politics to labor-management relations to inter-ethnic interactions.
I can imagine the Trump Court messing things up badly, as by allowing State legislatures to decide a state's vote if it dislikes the popular result.
A society that freezes malign reforms at the end of a Crisis Era sets itself up for the perversity blowing up in the faces of the Leadership the next time. Obviously I hope for the best so that we can avoid the worst
The anglo-american saeculum and 4T has never resulted in malign reforms, except perhaps later in the 1T as after the civil war when many of the reforms were retracted. I suspect we cannot afford to lose and settle for malign reforms in this 4T. We are going to either face up to the fight, or lose our country and probably civilization itself. There can be no "next time" and no salvation from a failed fourth turning, unless a benign foreign power (like the USA itself was after WWII) conquers the USA and makes the needed reforms for us. Seems an unlikely prospect.
All of us who are concerned will need to be active in getting the millennials out to vote in Nov.2022.
