06-29-2022, 11:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-29-2022, 11:11 AM by Eric the Green.)
(06-28-2022, 01:14 PM)David Horn Wrote: After sharing a week with a radical and reactionary SCOTUS -- leading us to God knows where, a little boredom would be welcome. Unfortunately, that is a luxury not on offer, as they say. The line is now drawn: tyranny or not! Just getting back to where we were (a none too delightful place in itself) will take some heavy lifting. The push beyond that will take more time and effort than we seem willing to expend.
We Americans -- especially those of us on the left -- are not good at patience, and others in the mushy center are unwilling to suffer for one second to avoid much worse suffering next year or the year after that. This is coming to a head, and we're not ready. I'm not sure we know how to get there either. Please, prove me wrong.
I can show the astrological indicators of a reform decade, FWIW, but that would not prove that we will live up to them. So far, we aren't. That is not unusual in the first years of the other reform decades in history, about 29 years apart going back through modern times from the 2020s. But the poor temperament and ignorance level of Americans today is still staggering. We are definitely not ready. We will be forced into a maelstrom in the next few years. Will we swim through it or not, I can't say.