03-12-2021, 12:33 PM
(03-12-2021, 11:47 AM)Einzige Wrote: Biden is most definitely not the Grey Champion, lol.
Not yet. Still, his administration looks like it could solve or make a large dent in the crisis problems: COVID, the economy, systematic racism, red violence and global warming. If he gives them all a good performance after a conservative administration that took the no-solve option on all these, he will fit all the criteria S&H set.
I do not see any of the problems as taking more than a few years. The Big Lie cannot last. They have good video on a lot of the insurrectionists. We have the vaccines, we will see how they race against the mutated variants. We have therapies too if the bug is caught soon enough. If we solve COVID, the economy should follow. Global Warming will take time, but if he organizes a good start, the other four issues will serve. We are currently of a mood to get back to 'normal', but it will be a step forward to the high not backward into unraveling. Solving problems will be considered a good idea. Lies will not. Respecting the science will be mandatory. Voter suppression and racism might still be common in the reddest of states, but let's see if they are tolerated at the federal level.
Traditionally, it takes at least four years to win a crisis war, but I am not seeing one starting. We are not looking to start a land war is Asia. China is not looking to start a sea war with the US. Finance games are more profitable lately than expanding turf anyway. Thus, the timing says the problems will be well on their way to being solved by the time Harris has her turn.
Lincoln and FDR had no great following going into their crises either. But the history books are not written going in, but after the crisis.
I am not amazed that much yet by Biden, but the conservatives have painted themselves into a corner. I respect more the forces of history than the individual man. The grey champion just gets credit for what has to be done.
The Marxists are not in contention currently. I can easily see the division of wealth being the largest problem remaining if the crisis issues are resolved. I could easily see the excessive influence of the elites coming to a head in the next awakening or crisis. I can easily see them solved by non violence and legislation, at least in the democratic west. But the Marxists have not solved the problem of how to check the folk that organize the revolution. They just propose switching one set of elites for another. As long as that holds, Marxism as conceived over a century ago will be rejected by the modern people. It has become a dead end theory for armchair wannabe politicians.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.