[USA] What do you think the political landscape will look like in the new saeculum?

[Eric the Green]

(12-15-2022, 03:15 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(12-15-2022, 02:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't see any right-wingers around willing to do anything about "economic inequity and an increasingly-rigid class structure". It is true that Trump alluded to aspects of this, but only offered remedies that make it worse; in fact he doubled down on the neoliberal agenda that so benefits him and his class. I'm afraid that restrictions on big corporate operations and wealthy business interests has to be the central focus of any such correction, since they are the cause of all such economic inequity and the increasingly-rigid class structure. That means higher taxes and regulations on them, and protections and support for the poor and middle class folks who suffer from their behavior and their monopolization of power today in so many ways. And since the government must provide these things, I'm afraid that we need more, not less, "bureaucracy" to handle these matters. And such bureauracy must be clean and not corrupt. Such things as gerrymandering and money-domination of politics, all so favored by the right wing and its supreme court, is the real swamp, and only the Left can or is willing to drain it.

I agree on your timing. I expect the astrological indicator of the first births of the prophet/idealist and civic/hero generations, Neptune entering a cardinal tropical zodiac sign, will hold up again, which means the next idealist prophets should begin to be born within a year of 2025 or 2026, plus or minus, probably plus. I expect that, IF we come through our crisis and correct our course, that the 1T should begin in 2029 or 2030. 

As you know, I expect any such course correction will depend on Democrats coming out of the 4T with more power. I don't see any problem with the more-lefty regimes coming into power now in some places South and Latin America; they are not extreme or totalitarian. I don't endorse the Cuba model or Venezuelan kleptocracy, and I abhor the traitor Ortega in Nicaragua, and I don't think the new regimes in Brazil (Lula taking office in January), Chile and Colombia, for example, emulate those models.

I can't think of a single Latin American country I'd ever want to emulate (at least as far as political regimes are concerned). Even the best are always way worse than America at its worst.

The Trump regime was worse than many Latin American regimes.