Does this 4T seem a little 2T-ish to anyone else?

[Eric the Green]

(03-30-2022, 01:44 PM)Anthony Wrote:

(03-28-2022, 11:36 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-27-2022, 12:45 PM)Anthony Wrote: If we are in a 4T at all, then what's with all this 3T business like the "Don't Say Gay" bill in Florida, the shrill debate over whether transgenders should be allowed to play on girls' sports teams, putting bounties on the heads of would-be abortion-seekers, and so on?

About the only thing that's missing is another Scopes trial.

You've got a good question there.

I guess the only answer is that this 4T is a cold civil war that might still get hot. And the fault lines of our national division are still largely cultural. But that division IS our 4T.

Maybe this explains it.

But once a real 4T sets in, the Culture Wars end, because by then one faction of Prophets/Idealists will have triumphed over the other or others - and that has clearly not happened yet.

But my point is, in a civil war 4T like ours, the country is too divided for one faction to triumph over the others until near the end of the 4T. And even in the Revolution, it was not clear whether the USA could defeat the British until quite a ways through, and the fascists had gotten off to a good start too in 1941.

The culture war is evidently basic to the national division, along with the neoliberal-caused class war, and this division IS our 4T, so we can't expect triumph of one side over the other all the way until 2029. And even then, the "bloody shirt syndrome" and an end to the next "reconstruction" could keep some of this division alive even after 2029.