Ukraine is definitely in a 1T

[Eric the Green]

(04-23-2022, 09:20 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(04-22-2022, 12:50 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: How this 4T will play out, I am less sure of than I was when I published my horoscope book in 2019, or my previous book in 1997. I thought that the new millennial generation and the cosmic progressive indicators would reverse the trend of not supporting a Democratic president in the midterms once elected. I expected 2022 would be a Democratic year. The Millennials/Gen Z today are the most disapproving of President Biden, according to polls now. They are going in just the opposite direction from what is needed and what I expected. Whether they are dissatisfied with him on the left or from the right is not clear. But it's clear they have forgotten what Obama told them in Sept 2018 in that great University of Illinois speech, and what the Parkland kids like David Hogg told them too.

This is the crucial decision that will decide our 4T. We are in a polarized cold civil war turning, and one side must win. If the young people have deserted the ship, it will sink. The progressive side must win in this 4T for the saeculum to continue and our republic and our world to survive. A 4T is existential, always. We take action and change our country, or we die. The generational combination of a 4T must come through, as it always has before. We can't wait for others to do something, now or later. We need to act ourselves. We need to step up and do our part. Just as Obama said.

The Millennials and GenZ are totally disheartened.  They trust no one because no one has proven trustworthy.  There is also the problem of expectations and, let's face it, the WOW factor.  Biden is boring and not decisive.  Trump would just bull his way forward and got rewarded for it.  Biden negotiates, dithers and the younger crowd rolls its collective eyes.

If Biden does not get the support of Millennials (including the Pew Gen Zers), that it totally on THEM. To hell with the WOW factor. This is not a rock concert. This is not Coachella. You don't need a messiah. All we need are decent, hard working people, who are accountable, and who have America's best interests at heart. And they'll step up, and they'll join our government and they'll make things better, IF they have support!

Biden's Boredom is no excuse for young people not to support him. And he is trustworthy, even though he has had bad timing, perhaps, and perhaps has not done everything he could have done; but he has done the right things, and offered real solutions. But the voters did not give him a congress. So therefore to punish him and say, sort of like Jesus said, he who hath not, from him will be taken away even that which he hath. If the voters complain, roll their eyes, put their head in the sand, lose themselves in ironic detachment, and don't vote Democratic, etc., that is their own fault, and we will all pay for it.

I admit, I am damn mad at the voters and non-voters of America. Everything wrong in America today is 100% entirely due to them, without exception.

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Eric Wrote:Can we get to the other side by just sort of muddling through, without the big changes that usually characterize 4Ts? Can coach-potato generations accomplish enough just to get by? Will the market forces be enough to carry us into a 1T and put us on track of steady progress? Maybe, I don't know. But that seems to be what the people want.

THAT is what they want if they are not willing to support the Democrats and give Biden a congress, just because they aren't sufficiently progressive or young and attractive enough or whatever the millennials and other liberals have decided that Biden or other Democrats are not. Or will our current generations be able to reverse themselves in 2024 by re-electing Biden and giving him a congress, and will that be in time to make one last progressive push in the last 4 years of the 4T? The recent pattern where the Republicans gerrymander and take over congress for two or three terms must be broken somewhere.

Sorry to say it, but we got a calm quiet Silent when we needed a firebreather.  That's not fixable.  If Biden runs in 2024, we'll be seeing the GOP running the show or going through this same routine  of do-little again.  Neither option is good.

I don't know if Biden will win re-election, but I don't see any Democrat with the needed candidate skills willing to step up to replace him. And no-one did in 2020. And there are very few of them who could even beat Trump in 2024. But Biden is not a Silent; he's a cusper, and he has fire. He speaks well; just not as well as Obama, Bill Clinton, or some Republicans (maybe even W. Bush). I don't blame Biden because the voters did not give him a congress. Again you forget, no leader no matter how fiery or charismatic or able to connect can accomplish anything without a congress, and such a leader cannot be expected to change the mind of anyone in congress. That just does not happen anymore, if it ever did.

Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Failure to communicate....