06-27-2022, 01:10 PM
(06-27-2022, 12:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:Quote:"If we handle this Crisis Era badly, either solving nothing or -- worse -- regressing to an economic order that serves only elites while squeezing, bleeding, and brutalizing everyone else, then the next one will be a horror that will make World War II look gentle. The wars will be more destructive and the genocide more horrific."
Yes, and much of the horror will unfold during the years following our own failed turning. The horror will climax during the next 4T and beyond.
Right now, it looks like one bought-and-paid-for phony Democrat blocked the needed remedy, and the 2022 midterm voters are likely to punish Biden for what this one senator did, and that will make failure in this turning much more likely. And if Biden is unable to run and win in 2024, then the chance for turning our turning around will vanish, since it appears no other Democrat is willing or able to step forward and win, and we can depend on a Republican president and congress to continue the decline into horror.
The recent Congressional hearings on the Capitol Putsch and the scheme to replace valid slates of electors with false ones looks worse every report -- for Republicans. Good things are that
(1) the GOP is splintering, with the guilty side purging out the few who put the rule of law over power
(2) inflation seems to be stalling
(3) this may be my observation -- but I see fewer Trump banners and signs
(4) much of the political dissent is against a Supreme Court ruling for which Democratic politicians are held harmless
At this point it looks as if the "Three Trump Stooges" Court can still do much legal mischief, and not only on abortion. One area is voting rights, and I can imagine some state legislatures deciding that only those who own property have the right to vote in state and federal elections with the concurrence of the Three Trump Stooges.
Donald Trump and the current GOP represent plutocracy with a fundamentalist flair. ...With the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential election I had thought that we had gone from perhaps as few as ten years from a proletarian revolution to at least sixty. We may have gone to twenty.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.