07-29-2022, 05:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-29-2022, 05:26 PM by Eric the Green.)
(07-29-2022, 07:12 AM)David Horn Wrote:(07-28-2022, 02:53 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(07-28-2022, 04:40 AM)nguyenivy Wrote: Your last point was interesting. I may be an early Millennial but I felt similar for a while in the whole 'not wanting to take sides' thing. Maybe it's due to me being an only-child, maybe it's the Asperger's, maybe nothing in particular. I have positions on things but US culture as a whole is just not collectivist in the way(s) [some?] European countries are. There have to be cultural reasons in addition to business reasons as to why we don't have the universal social safety nets and public transportation systems some EU countries have despite both sides of the northern Atlantic being 'Western'. So I have a question: What is a good vision for the future that is compatible with American culture? So far, it seems clear that the 'how we get there' part will be easier once we actually have a vision. Perhaps this is why the S&H archetypes go in the order they do? Idealist/Prophet -> Reactive/Nomad -> Civic/Hero -> Artist -> <loop back>
I agree 100%, and honestly...I'm not super collectivist myself. I just think we need to be collectivist enough to get a bit more structure, get some basic institutions and services working and stop being at each other's throats with all this culture war nonsense.
The neoliberal swing started in the late 60s under Nixon. Venture capital got the upper hand it always wanted, and it was off to the races. Can we decide that enough is enough? TBD, but the dam is showing cracks.
Nixon was by no means fully neoliberal. After all, he instituted the EPA. He did not reduce taxes as a scheme to increase growth. His election and the outcome of 1968 was the start of a general conservative trend, but it was Reagan who instituted the neoliberal regime.
If Manchin coming on board pans out with a vote within a week for the revised and watered-down BBBBB, then that is a good start for breaking up neoliberalism and of a reform decade, with the conjunction of Dec.2020 marking the shift as expected; although if Republicans take the House, then that's another 2-year delay at least for more reform and more shift. So TBD yes, but if this bill goes through it's a major fulfillment of the trend I expected to start at this time.
IF the Democrats can keep the House, and pick up two more seats in the Senate, then bypassing the filibuster to pass the Freedom to Vote Act would be another huge step very much in line with the reforms I have predicted. Since it has already passed the House, then 2 or 3 Senate victories might actually be enough to at least get that and other reforms which the House has already passed. If that's the way it works, without a chamber reconciliation process needed.
