05-31-2018, 10:00 PM
(05-31-2018, 07:41 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Perhaps we are experiencing an unusually mild 4T?
I thought such possible in the late 1990s, when the Crisis era could have been more a cultural phenomenon than one with potential for great ruin.
The extreme polarization in American political life, the intense inequality of economic results, and the utter ruthlessness of one side of the political spectrum suggest otherwise.
Remember: the weather before a severe blizzard can be freakishly balmy and gentle. I have seen April blizzards that follow several days of temperatures around 70F. The disruptive April blizzard is still possible. A sharp cold wave overtakes some warm, humid weather, and the juiced air becomes the source of what can be the biggest snowstorm of the whole winter. That's Michigan.
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.