06-15-2021, 02:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2021, 03:07 AM by Captain Genet.)
(06-10-2021, 03:10 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(06-09-2021, 04:15 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: I agree that deaths of polarizing boomer politicians, like Trump, Putin, Netanyahu or Poland's Kaczynski, will mark the definite end of millennial saeculum.
No, it won't. The radical right wing has controlled the Republican Party for 40 years. The defeat of neo-liberal ideology, as well as Trump nationalism and racism, will mark the definite end of millennial saeculum. Silents and Gen Xers have supported these ideologies as much as, or more than, Boomers have.
What would it take to bring back the "compassionate conservatism" platform Bush ran on in 2000? And to make it the dominant strain of the Republican Party, instead of a cloak for Mammon-worship?
Quote:The tyrannical leader of Poland today is named Duda. He is an Xer, not a Boomer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Duda
His ideas are formed by Kaczynski, but Kaczynski's death won't make him abandon these beliefs.
Back to Britain and America, the anti-PC, anti-cancel-culture movement is mostly Xer. While bashing Inclusivism, they really bash any morality. As teenagers, the same people bashed Christianity, often pretending to be Satanists. The nihilism stayed the same.
Triumphant end to this turning? More like a break from the 4T mood before it kicks in again. There is no guarantee the cycle will run smoothly. I think France was in 4T mood from 1789 to 1870, with some short breaks like the restoration of Bourbons.
