What's your generation and how would you change your government?

[Eric the Green]

(03-26-2022, 06:28 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-24-2022, 12:21 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(03-24-2022, 06:10 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Of course. I'm not sanguine either; maybe less so, because of the realization that we have to turn the corner in the next 7 years or we go off a cliff forever, and we haven't made much of a turn yet, really. The crisis mindset is increasing; perhaps that offers some hope.

This much we agree on. People still hold onto delusional ideals and want some sort of government or heroic figure to rescue them, but no one can rescue a person from bad character and principles, and this is 30x more true of a nation than it is a person.

This is the furthest into a crisis era we've come with little progress to show.  With the American oligarchs firmly established as both business moguls and popular figures in nearly one half of the nation, the potential for harm is high.

I don't know about you but having organizations like Blackrock supply the politicians of the near-term future is demoralizing.  We already have one here in Virginia.  The primary talent of venture capital is to destroy and extract.  That bodes poorly for the rest of us ... and for them as well, if they actually gave it a thought.

The irony is we have come so close to turning the corner, at least somewhat, but we are being stopped by one fossil-fuel invested phony Democrat. The center-left Party has only a 51-50 majority and has already done almost as much as the 60-40 Senate that helped Obama for 7 months. Most of the Democrats in the Senate now are real Democrats, unlike back then. But we are still 2 short. It will take a couple more Democrats in the Senate and holding the House to get progress going again for real. Prospects don't look good. 

If we make the change at all, it may happen in the last 4 years of the 4T, from 2025 to 2029. And we will have to rely on an old Silent-Boomer cusper leader who lacks much charisma to get us through. That is not much of a 4T pattern, arguably; but remember the double rhythm. S&H decided not to include the 1850s in the civil war 4T, which also left only 4 years for some bloody progress to be made. But the 1850s were really a polarized "phony 4T", just like our times. We are still in about 1856-57 redux. It's how a more-domestic-oriented 4T works. Progress is much harder to make in a divided country, but the crisis trouble itself is all too evident. Of course, there's some of both foreign and domestic crises in all 4Ts, and we know that's true this time.